Esteemed scholar and feminist theologian, Dr. Kelly Denton-Borhaug, will be speaking at Chattanooga State Community College on Thursday, April 15, at 7 p.m.  The lecture, entitled “Co-opting Christian Sacrifice to Promote U.S. War Culture,” will be held in the college’s new Health Science Center in Room 1085 on Chattanooga State’s main campus.  The event is open to the public free of charge.

Dr. Susan Stocker, professor of philosophy at Chattanooga State, is coordinating Dr. Denton-Borhaug’s visit.  “Dr. Denton-Borhaug is an exceedingly captivating and provocative educator.  We are fortunate to have the opportunity to host her at Chattanooga State, and we are pleased to invite the Chattanooga community to join us for a special lecture on Thursday, April 15.  Both a scholar of Christianity and a “just war” pacifist, she will be sharing her intriguing and thoughtful perspective on how religious ideals and practices exploit, complicate and support a culture of war.”

Dr. Denton-Borhaug is presently a professor of religion at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.  Her educational background includes a bachelor of arts degree from California State University, a master of arts degree in divinity from Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, and a doctoral degree from Graduate Theological Union, located in Berkeley, California.  Concentrating on Christian images; understandings of salvation; feminist theology and ethics; and war and ethics, her current research considers the intersection between Christian understandings of sacrifice and sacrificial ideology in a war culture.

For more information about Dr. Kelly Denton-Borhaug’s lecture, please contact Dr. Susan Stocker at 423.697.2560 or at susan.stocker@chattanoogastate.edu.

For more information about Chattanooga State Community College and its educational programs, call the Chattanooga State information hotline at 423.697.4404 or toll free at 1.866.547.3733 or visit the college’s Web site at www.chattanoogastate.edu.

Chattanooga State Community College is a comprehensive, regionally accredited community college, operated under the policies and guidelines of the Tennessee Board of Regents College System.  Founded in 1965 and serving a six-county area in Southeast Tennessee, Chattanooga State offers a wide array of programs and services.