Christopher H. Evans to Give Keynote Address at Culver-Stockton College
On March 22, Dr. Christopher H. Evans, professor of history of Christianity and Methodist studies at Boston University, will be the speaker at the annual Henry Barton Robison Lecture in Religion, held at Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Mo.
Evans’ lecture is entitled Righteous Idealism: The Legacy of the Social Gospel Movement in America and will take place at 7:00pm in Merillat Chapel. Evans says his lecture will be delving into the “decisive role” of the social gospel movement and its influence in “shaping the religious and secular contours of twentieth-century American life—even as its legacy has become recently obscured by the popularity of the Christian Right.”
Evans says the lecture “will explore the wider impact of the social gospel movement in American society, offering an assessment of its legacy and the prospects for its renewal in the 21st century.”
The Robison Lecture is an annual event, endowed in honor of Dr. Henry Barton Robison, professor of religion and dean of the school of religion at Culver-Stockton College. According to the school, the lectures have been printed and distributed to friends and surviving relatives of Dr. Robison and to deans, professors of religion, and ministers who are affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) denomination.
Evans’ teaching and scholarship focuses on the history of Christianity, American religion, United Methodist history, and ministry studies. He is the author of Histories of American Christianity (Baylor University Press, 2013) and The Kingdom is Always but Coming: A Life of Walter Rauschenbusch (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2004).