WEBB, Eugene

At 1997 Eranos, Monte Verità,
Ascona, Switzerland

This is the Home Page for Eugene Webb,
Professor Emeritus,
The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies,
University of Washington

Last updated February 23, 2009

Courses & Lectures

Feb. 8 to March 1, 2009, St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Seattle
"The Theology of Christian Community"

This series of four lectures will talk about the Biblical and theological roots of Christian thinking about community.

The first lecture, "Faith and Dialogue," will be about the idea of the church as a community of inquirers developing faith through sharing experiences and interpretations in dialogue not only with each other but also with all those who have gone before and left records of their religious understanding. It will also discuss the difference between monological and dialogical discourse and the idea that both reason and faith are inherently dialogical in structure.
The second, "Israel and Corporate Personhood" will discuss the ideas of the ancient Israelites about Israel's calling to divine sonship and the ways the early Christians interpreted this calling as finding fulfillment in the person of Jesus and in his body, the "new Israel," composed of those who "live in" his corporate personhood.
Lecture notes and quotations (pdf)
The third lecture, "Personhood and the Triune God," will talk about the way the doctrine of the Trinity was developed to sum up and explicate the Biblical themes explored in the preceding lectures, and also about the ways it articulated a new conception of personhood.
Lecture notes and quotations (pdf)
The fourth, "Christian Community at a Crossroads," will talk about the ways Christian fellowship is continually challenged by divisions within the community and will discuss what the core issues involved in those divisions are today and what they have been at various crucial points of Christian history.

Talk at Interfaith Thanksgiving Eve Service, Sand Point Community United Methodist Church, Seattle
November 23, 2005

"Eros and The Psychology of World Views"
Anthropoetics, XII, 1 (Spring / Summer 2006).

Phi Beta Kappa Initiation Address
University of Washington, June 9, 2005

"Reviving the Openness of Islam"
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Nov. 11, 2001

"Ernest Becker and the Psychology of World Views"
Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, 33, no. 1 (March 1998): 71-86

"Mimesis, Evolution, and Differentiation of Consciousness"
Paragrana: Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie, 4, no. 2 (1995): 151-165