George Hunsinger, the Princeton Theological Seminary's Hazel Thompson McCord Professor of Systematic Theology will present a public talk titled, "Violence Finds Refuge in Falsehood: American Democracy and the Future of Torture" at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, December 16 in Bowl 016, Robertson Hall, on the Princeton University campus.

Hunsinger is an ordained Presbyterian minister and theologian.  He served as director of the Seminary’s Center for Barth Studies from 1997 to 2001. He has broad interests in the history and theology of the Reformed tradition and in “generous orthodoxy” as a way beyond the modern liberal/conservative impasse in theology and church. He teaches courses on the doctrine of the Holy Spirit in the Reformed tradition, the theology of the Lord’s Supper, the theology of John Calvin, and classical and recent Reformed theology.

Hunsinger has also been associated with the postliberal and has a long history of anti-war and human rights activism and is also an open critic of the war in Iraq. He is the founder of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture. Since 2003 he has been active in the Ecumenical movement through the Faith and Order commission and recently completed a book on “The Eucharist and Ecumenism: Let Us Keep the Feast” (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
 
Hunsinger earned his B.D. from Harvard University Divinity School and his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Yale University.

This event is co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Center for the Study of Religion.  It is part of the “Crossroads of Relgion and Politics” series and is free and open to the public.