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George Hunsinger is the McCord Professor of Systematic Theology Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary. He earned his degrees at Stanford, Harvard, and Yale. A leading expert on Karl Barth, he was the 2010 recipient of the international Karl Barth Prize. He serves as an ordained Presbyterian minister, the founder of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (2006), and a delegate to the official Reformed/Roman Catholic International Dialogue (2011–2017). He is interested in “generous orthodoxy” as a way of overcoming the historic liberal/conservative impasse in modern Protestant theology.
George Hunsinger is one of the most influential theologians of his generation, widely recognized for shaping contemporary engagement with Reformed theology generally, and the work of the Swiss theologian Karl Barth in particular, as well as advancing ecumenical dialogue. Over the course of a distinguished career spanning more than four decades, Hunsinger’s scholarship, teaching, and public witness have left an enduring mark on the discipline of systematic theology and the life of the church.
Educated at Stanford University, the Harvard Divinity School, Yale University, and the University of Tübingen, Hunsinger was educated in some of the most important theological institutions of the twentieth century. Hunsinger was ordained in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in 1982, and he has consistently integrated scholarly work with ecclesial commitment, understanding theology as a discipline accountable both to the academy and to the church’s public witness.
Hunsinger joined Princeton Theological Seminary in 2001 as the Hazel Thompson McCord Professor of Systematic Theology, following previous appointments at Bangor Theological Seminary, New Brunswick Theological Seminary, and numerous visiting professorships in the United States and Europe. From 1997 to 2001, Hunsinger served as Director of Princeton Theological Seminary’s Center for Barth Studies, helping to establish the Center as a global hub for Barth scholarship and mentoring students through its programming and informal reading groups. His teaching at Princeton Seminary has been marked by intellectual rigor, ecumenical breadth, and sustained attention to classical Christian doctrine, modern theology, and contemporary ethical challenges.
Internationally acclaimed as a leading interpreter of Karl Barth, Hunsinger’s books—How to Read Karl Barth, Disruptive Grace, and Reading Barth with Charity, among many others—have shaped how Barth’s theology is read and received across confessional and disciplinary lines. Beyond Barth studies, Hunsinger has made significant contributions to Christology, the doctrine of the Trinity, justification, sacramental theology, and ecumenism, particularly advancing conversations bridging Reformed, Roman Catholic, and evangelical traditions.
Equally central to Hunsinger’s vocation has been his engagement with public theology and human rights. He is the founder of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT), an interfaith organization mobilizing religious communities to oppose torture and advocate for human dignity. Through writing, organizing, and public speaking, Hunsinger has persistently challenged churches to reckon with the moral demands of Christian faith in the face of war, violence, and the misuse of political power. His work in this area has been recognized by numerous awards, including the International Karl Barth Prize (2010) and the Bishop James K. Matthews Award for public theology (2006).
Hunsinger has played a formative role in ecumenical and ecclesial life. He served as a delegate to the Reformed/Roman Catholic International Dialogue, was a principal author of the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s catechisms approved in 1998, and he has held key leadership positions in the Karl Barth Society of North America, the Faith and Order Commission (USA), and the editorial boards of several scholarly journals. His scholarship and service reflect a lifelong commitment to theological conversation that is at once historically grounded, doctrinally serious, and oriented toward the unity of the church.
Across classrooms, conferences, publications, and public forums, George Hunsinger has exemplified theology as an intellectually disciplined, ecumenically open, and morally engaged practice. His work continues to inspire students, scholars, and church leaders to think deeply, speak honestly, and act faithfully for the sake of the gospel and the world.
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Victoria J. Barnett has written and taught extensively about the history of the churches and the interfaith community during the Nazi era and about the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. From 2022–23, she was the Frank Talbott, Jr. Endowed Visiting Professor in Jewish and Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. She served as the Director of the Programs on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from 2004–2019. From 2004–2014, she was one of the general editors of the multivolume Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English Edition. She is a graduate of Indiana University, Union Theological Seminary (New York), and George Mason University. She is the author of “After Ten Years”: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Our Times; For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest against Hitler; and Bystanders: Conscience and Complicity during the Holocaust, and the translator of several works, most recently Christiane Tietz, Karl Barth: A Life in Conflict (2021).
Kimlyn J. Bender is Professor of Christian Theology and holds the Foy Valentine Chair in Christian Theology and Ethics at Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary. He received his Ph.D. in theology from Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author and editor of a number of books, including Karl Barth’s Christological Ecclesiology; Reading Karl Barth for the Church: A Guide and Companion; Confessing Christ for Church and World: Studies in Modern Theology; and Reflections on Reformational Theology: Studies in the Theology of the Reformation, Karl Barth, and the Evangelical Tradition. His most recent book is 1 Corinthians in the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible series. His work has been published in numerous journals and collections. He is the recipient of the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics (First Prize), the David Allan Hubbard Award from Fuller Theological Seminary, and the Outstanding Faculty Award from both the University of Sioux Falls and from Baylor University.
Dr. Casarella’s primary field of study is systematic theology followed by world religions and world church. He was appointed to the faculty of Duke Divinity School as of July 1, 2020. Formerly, he was an associate professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame from 2013—2020 and served as director of the Latin American North American Church Concerns (LANACC) project in the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. He served as professor of Catholic Studies from 2007—2013 at DePaul University, where he was also the founding director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology. He has published ninety-one essays in scholarly journals or books on a variety of topics including medieval Christian Neoplatonism, contemporary theological aesthetics, intercultural thought, and the Hispanic/Latino presence in the U.S. Catholic Church. He served as president of The American Cusanus Society, The Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians in the U.S. (ACHTUS), and the Academy of Catholic Theologians (ACT). He is currently serving a second five-year term on the International Roman Catholic-Baptist World Alliance Ecumenical Dialogue and served also on the Roman Catholic-World Communion of Reformed Churches Dialogue. He has published a monograph, Word as Bread: Language and Theology in Nicholas of Cusa (2017) and a collection of his own essays, Reverberations of the Word: Wounded Beauty in Global Catholicism (2020). He has also edited or co-edited: Cuerpo de Cristo: The Hispanic Presence in the U.S. Catholic Church (1998), Christian Spirituality and the Culture of Modernity: The Thought of Louis Dupré (1998), Cusanus: The Legacy of Learned Ignorance (2006), A World for All? Global Civil Society in Political Theory and Trinitarian Theology (2011), and, most recently, The Whole is Greater than its Parts: Ecumenism and Inter-religious Encounters in the Age of Pope Francis (2020). He is currently working on a book titled: The God of the People: A Latinx Theology.
Dr. Kendall Cox is the Director of Academic Affairs in the Templeton Honors College and Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies & Ethics. She also serves as Co-Director of the Bioethics & Medical Humanities Minor in Philosophy and as the undergraduate advisor for all honors students. Among the courses she teaches are HONR 280 “Beauty and the Arts,” HONR 330: “Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice,” and PHIL 240 “Narrative Medicine.”
Dr. Cox came to Templeton and Eastern from the University of Virginia, where she taught ethics and theology and was a Fellow at the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life, an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, and affiliate faculty of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and the Humanities. She has a PhD in Religious Studies from UVA as well as an MDiv from Regent College, University of British Columbia. She studied Religion and Studio Art in undergrad at Wake Forest University and remains involved in the visual arts.
Her book Prodigal Christ was published with Baylor University Press (2022). It focuses on creative retellings of the Parable of the Prodigal Son in the work of Julian of Norwich and Karl Barth. In addition to chapters in edited volumes, she has published in The Journal of Reformed Theology, Word and World, Interpretation, and Syndicate.
Aaron Gosser is Associate Professor of Studio Art at Cedarville University, where he has taught painting and art history since 2005. He holds an MFA in Visual Arts from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. His current body of work, 100 Portraits of Karl Barth, is a four-year series of oil sketches on recycled canvas panels exploring the dialectical tension at the heart of Barth’s theology—and his life. Rooted in the logic of the underpainting, the project functions as a cumulative installation rather than a collection of individual works, each surface layered with collaboration, revision, and the accumulated weight of a single inexhaustible subject. The series opens in its first solo exhibition, Simul., at Princeton Theological Seminary in September 2026.
Eric Gregory is Professor of Religion and former Chair of the Humanities Council at Princeton University. His research and teaching focus on religious and philosophical ethics, theology, political theory, law and religion, and the role of religion in public life. He is the author of Politics & the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship (University of Chicago Press, 2008), and recent articles on myth and politics, the philosophy of history, secularity, and moral supererogation. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Religious Ethics and sits with the executive committee of the Princeton University Center for Human Values. In 2007, he was awarded Princeton’s President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. A graduate of Harvard College, he earned an M.Phil. and Diploma in Theology from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and his doctorate in Religious Studies from Yale University. In 2025—2026, he is Old Dominion Research Professor in the Humanities at Princeton and Senior Fellow at the Center of Theological Inquiry. Among his current projects is a book tentatively titled, The In-Gathering of Strangers: Global Justice and Political Theology, which examines secular and religious perspectives on global justice.
Keith L. Johnson is Professor of Theology at Wheaton College, where he also serves as chair of the Undergraduate Biblical and Theological Studies department. He is the author of Karl Barth and the Analogia Entis (T&T Clark), The Essential Karl Barth: A Reader and Commentary (Baker Academic), Theology as Discipleship (IVP Academic), and the forthcoming Confronting Christian Nationalism: Karl Barth’s Path of Resistance (Baylor University Press).
Dr. Cambria Kaltwasser is Marvin and Jerene DeWitt Endowed Biblical and Theological Studies Professor at Northwestern College. Dr. Kaltwasser teaches courses in historical and doctrinal theology. She earned her doctorate in systematic theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, where she also completed her Master of Divinity. Dr. Kaltwasser’s research focuses on prayer, sanctification, and the Christian life. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled Karl Barth on Friendship with God.
Dr. Kaltwasser serves as co-president of the Karl Barth Society of North America and as project editor for the Barth Translators’ Seminar, which is funded by a grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities. She is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). In 2013–14, she was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Tübingen, Germany.
Han-luen Kantzer Komline is Marvin and Jerene DeWitt Professor of Theology and Church History Western Theological Seminary, author of Augustine on the Will: A Theological Account (Oxford University Press—paperback, 2023), and co-author, with Mark Noll and David Komline, of Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity (4th edition, 2022). Her research focuses on early Christian theology. Many of her publications concern topics in Augustine or his relationship to other thinkers, ranging from Ambrose and Cyprian to Karl Barth and Marilynne Robinson. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the Louisville Institute, the Augustinian Institute at Villanova, and the Humboldt Foundation. Her current book project, The Idea of the New in Early Christian Thought, analyzes how Christians of late antiquity conceptualized and defended the innovative character of the Christian faith. Dr. Kantzer Komline serves as a co-editor of the International Journal of Systematic Theology, as Theologian in Residence at Pillar Church, and as an ordained Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Reformed Church in America.
David H. Kelsey is the Luther A. Weigle Professor Emeritus of Theology at Yale Divinity School. Professor Kelsey graduated from Yale with a Bachelor of Divinity in 1958 and with a Ph.D. in 1964. He was on the faculty at YDS from 1965 to 2005, during which time he published several books including Imagining Redemption (Westminster John Knox Press, 2005), Between Athens and Berlin: The Theological Education Debate (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1993), and To Understand God Truly: What’s Theological about Theological Education? (Westminster John Knox Press, 1992). Most recently he has published the two-volume title, Eccentric Existence: A Theological Anthropology, (Westminster John Knox Press, 2009). In 2011 he gave the Warfield Lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary, entitled “Glory, Kingdom, and Power: Stammering about God.” In 2012 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in theology from the University of Tubingen in Germany, a great honor for an international scholar.
Rev. Dr. Darren Kennedy serves as Associate Pastor for Discipleship, bringing nearly three decades of ministry experience to the congregation. His call to ministry has been shaped by long-term cross-cultural service, including 26 years as a PC(USA) missionary in Cairo, where he taught and mentored future church leaders at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo (ETSC) during a period of institutional growth and transition. His ministry is marked by pastoral presence, patient listening, and a commitment to forming disciples who love Jesus deeply. His wife, Elisabeth, grew up in Jordan as the daughter of missionaries and is a fluent Arabic speaker. She is an ordained PC(USA) pastor, a Hebrew Bible scholar, and is currently writing a commentary on Genesis 12–50. The couple met in college, later married after seminary, and have two adult sons: Calvin, a mechanical engineer working on solar farms in Ohio, and Samuel, a senior at Princeton University. Darren oversees discipleship pathways and programs for adults, including small groups, Sunday School, Men’s Ministry, and other discipleship offerings.
Dr. Joseph Mangina is Professor of Theology at Wycliffe College, an Anglican seminary affiliated with the University of Toronto. He studied at Yale, from which he received the degree of PhD in 1994. He is the author of two works on the theology of Karl Barth, as well as the volume on the book of Revelation in the Brazos Theological Commentary series. From 2008 to 2017, Dr. Mangina served as editor of Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology. He is currently at work on a Christology focused on the biblical image of the Temple.
Gerald McKenny is Walter Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of four books, including two on Karl Barth’s ethics, and of many articles and book chapters in the fields of Christian ethics and bioethics. He is also co-editor of five books. He is currently writing a book on virtue and moral law.
Paul D. Molnar is Professor of Systematic Theology, St. John’s University, Queens, New York where he has taught for over forty years and has published eight books and many journal articles related to the doctrine of the Trinity, Christology, and the theology of Karl Barth and of Thomas F. Torrance. His most recent books include The Centrality of Christ in the Theology of Thomas F. Torrance: Some Dogmatic Implications (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2024); Freedom, Necessity, and the Knowledge of God in Conversation with Karl Barth and Thomas F. Torrance (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2022); Divine Freedom and the Doctrine of the Immanent Trinity: In Dialogue with Karl Barth and Contemporary Theology (Second Edition) (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017). He is currently a Consulting Editor with the Scottish Journal of Theology, on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Theological Studies, a Contributing Editor with Cultural Encounters: A Journal for the Theology of Culture, and on the Editorial Board of Participatio, the Journal of the Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship.
A native of Pensacola, Florida, the Rev. Canon Dr. Kara Slade holds a PhD in Christian theology and ethics from Duke University with research interests that include Karl Barth, Søren Kierkegaard, the ethics of science and technology, and medical ethics. She earned the BSE, MS, and PhD in mechanical engineering and materials science at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering, and then joined the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as a research engineer and test manager for a variety of civilian and military projects. She returned to Duke as a student in the Divinity School, and stayed on for her second doctorate. Previously, Kara has served on the pastoral staff of the Anglican Episcopal House of Studies at Duke Divinity School, as well as in suburban and rural parishes in North Carolina and Alabama. She serves as Canon Theologian of the Diocese of New Jersey, and is a novice in the Community of the Good Shepherd within the Anglican Communion. Kara is also an Adjunct Professor of Theology and the Director of the Concentration in Episcopal and Anglican Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, hiking, cheering for Duke basketball, and exploring historic churches. She lives on Mercer Street with her “energetic” pitbull rescue dog, Greta.
Katherine Sonderegger is Professor of Theology at Virginia Theological Seminary where she has taught since 2002. She is at work on a systematic theology, two volumes of which have appeared with Fortress Press, and the third is in production. She is a priest of the Episcopal Church, resident in the Diocese of Virginia.
Philip G. Ziegler is Professor of Christian Dogmatics at the University of Aberdeen. Educated at the Royal Military College of Canada, the University of Toronto, the University of St Michael’s College, Regis College, and Emmanuel College of Victoria University, his studies is systematic and historical theology, ecumenics, and the philosophy of religion culminated in a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Religion. After teaching for several year at the Atlantic School of Theology in Halifax, Canada, he joined the faculty of the University of Aberdeen in Divinity & Religious Studies in 2006. He is the author of Doing Theology When God is Forgotten: The Theological Achievement of Wolf Krötke (2007) and Militant Grace: The Apocalyptic Turn and the Future of Christian Theology (2018). He has edited and co-edited a number of works in including The Providence of God, Explorations in Christian Theology and Ethics: Essays in Conversation with Paul L. Lehmann, Christ, Church and World: New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics, and Eternal God, Eternal Life: Theological Investigations into the Concept of Immortality. Phil is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Reformed Theology and also serves, together with Ian MacFarland and Ivor Davidson, as series editor of T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology. Phil is a General Secretary of the Karl Barth Society of North America, and serves on the executive committee of the English language section of the International Bonhoeffer Society and the steering group of the ‘Bonhoeffer and Social Analysis’ section of the AAR. An ordained minister of the United Church of Canada, Phil is formally associated with the Kirk Session of the Cathedral Church of St. Machar in Aberdeen.
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8:00 — 9:00 A.M.
Registration | Outside Theron room, Wright Library
9:00 — 10:30 A.m.
Plenary #1 — Katherine Sonderegger | Theron room, Wright Library
10:30 — 11:00 a.m.
Break
11:00 a.m. — 12:30 p.m.
Plenary #2 — Joseph Mangina | Theron room, Wright Library
12:30 — 2:00 p.m.
Lunch | Mackay Dining Hall
2:00 — 3:30 p.m.
Plenary #3 — Peter Casarella | Theron room, Wright Library
3:30 — 6:30 p.m.
6:30 — 7:15 p.m.
Evensong | Trinity Episcopal, 33 Mercer St, Princeton, NJ 08540
7:15 — 7:30 p.m.
7:30 — 9:00 p.m.
Student Reflections with Reception | Theron room, Wright LibraryFormer Student Panel:
Keith L. Johnson, Cambria Kaltwasser, Han-luenKantzer Komline, Darren Kennedy
9:00 — 10:30 a.m.
Plenary #4 — Kimlyn Bender | Theron room, Wright Library
11:00 a.m. — 1:00 p.m.
Plenary Panel #5 : Hunsinger as Reader of Barth | Theron room, Wright Library
Evangelical, Catholic and Reformed — Paul MolnarDisruptive Grace — Cambria KaltwasserHow to Read Karl Barth — Philip ZieglerBarth and Theological Ethics — Gerald McKenny
1:00 — 2:30 p.m.
2:30 — 4:30 p.m.
Plenary Panel #6 : Hunsinger and Key Theological Themes | Theron room, Wright LibraryPolitics and Barmen — Keith L. JohnsonPost-Holocaust / Israel — Victoria BarnettPostliberalism / Hans Frei — Eric Gregory
David Kelsey
4:30 — 6:30 p.m.
Art Exhibit and Reception | Erdman Center:Aaron Gosser, Cedarville University Simul.* — 100 Portraits of Karl Barth Speaker: Kendall Cox
*Simul. — 100 Portraits of Karl Barth is a four-year body of oil sketches on recycled canvas panels—surfaces painted over, layered, and reclaimed from previous work, much of it by students long graduated. The project began as intentionally quick paintings, leveraging the spontaneity of underpainting as a finished mode rather than a foundation for something else. Its subject is Karl Barth—Swiss pastor, professor, social activist, and arguably the most influential Christian theologian of the twentieth century—understood not as biographical monument but as theological mirror. Barth’s dialectical vision of humanity as simultaneously child and enemy of God, justified and sinful, finds its formal equivalent in the accumulated multiplicity of the work itself: varied in scale, tone, and mark, yet resolving into a single portrait. You are not looking at 100 paintings. You are looking at a single portrait of mankind.
Dining options are available in the Main Dining Room at the Mackay Campus Center. Breakfast is served from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., and lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. If you have any dietary requirements or additional questions about dining options, please contact the conference organizers.
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Due to the tight schedule of this event, tours of the Barth Center will not be offered.
Join us in honoring the life and work of George Hunsinger, Hazel Thompson McCord Professor of Systematic Theology Emeritus. In-person registration is free for members of the Princeton Theological Seminary community with a ptsem.edu email address. General in-person registration is $75. Virtual registration is available for $20.
