Burns Lectures 2025 – Christians, Consumption, and Climate Change: Christianity between the Last Ice Age and the Anthropocene
Part of the 2025 Burns Lectures, “Christians, Consumption, and Climate Change: Christianity between the Last Ice Age and the Anthropocene”.
Professor Brad Gregory is the Henkels Family College Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.
He is the author of a number of books, including: Rebel in the Ranks: Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts That Continue to Shape Our World (2017); The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society (2012); and Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe (1999).
Event schedule
Monday 19 May
Reinterpreting the Past in an Unprecedented Present: History and the Anthropocene
Tuesday 20 May
Fortunes for the Few, Misfortunes for the Many: Constructing the Ancient Inhumanities
Wednesday 21 May
Enduring the Way of the World: Covenant, Community, and Justice in Ancient Israel
Tuesday 27 May
Subverting the Way of the World: The Oblique Radicalism of Jesus of Nazareth
Wednesday 28 May
Accommodating the Way of the World: Making Room for Mammon, Making Peace with Rome
Thursday 29 May
Extending the Way of the World: Western Christianity from Constantine to the Anthropocene
Livestreaming
All lectures will be livestreamed.