2026 Colloquium: Calvin and Creation
19 March-21 March
Beeson Divinity School and Birmingham Theological Seminary
Presenters
Andrea Mosterman
Andrea Mosterman is the Joseph Tregle Professor in Early American History at the University of New Orleans. She studies slavery and the slave trade in early America and the Dutch Atlantic world. Her work has been published in, among others, Early American Studies and the Journal of African History. Her book Spaces of Enslavement: A History of Slavery and Resistance in Dutch New York (Cornell University Press, October 2021) has won the 2020 Hendricks Award for best book-length manuscript relating to New Netherland and the Dutch colonial experience. She currently researches the voyage of the Dutch slave ship the Gideon and the seventeenth-century Dutch Atlantic slave trade with North America.
Her tentative presentation title: “Race, Slavery, and the Creation of Dutch Reformed Spaces of Worship in Early New York”
Angela Carpenter
Angela Carpenter is the Leonard and Marjorie Maas Associate Professor of Reformed Theology at Hope College. As a teacher and scholar of Reformed theology and ethics her work explores the implications of the doctrine of grace for Christian understandings of ethics, moral agency, and human society. Her second book, Grace and Social Ethics: Gift as the Foundation of Our Lives Together, was published by Baker Academic in 2024.
Her tentative presentation title: "'Earthly Benefits': Calvin on the Use and Enjoyment of Created Goods"
Brad S. Gregory
Brad S. Gregory is Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. A former Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows, he is the author of The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society (2012), which has been translated into five languages, and is a member of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters.
His tentative presentation title: "The Early Modern European Roots of the Anthropocene"