Jeffrey Pugh, professor of religious studies, delivered three lectures Jan. 27-28 at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Va., as part of that school’s James A. Davis Lectures in Religion series.
Pugh’s lectures will center around this year’s lecture series theme, “Discerning the Times: The Relevance of Dietrich Bonhoeffer for Today.” Pugh has presented several papers to the American Academy of Religion on Bonhoeffer’s legacy and is regarded as a skilled interpreter of Bonhoeffer’s life and thoughts. Bonhoeffer was a German pastor and theologian whose influence has expanded since his execution by the Nazis at the end of World War II. His writings address the struggles Christians face when trying to be faithful to God in the midst of increasing secularism and nationalism.