God Is Not Nice | Prof. Ulrich Lehner

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🗓️ 27 February 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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This lecture was given at Baylor University on February 6, 2020.

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Ulrich L. Lehner specializes in religious history and theology of the Early Modern period, the Enlightenment, and the 19th century. Among his publications are ten authored books and sixteen edited volumes, including The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theology, 1600-1800 (Oxford UP: 2016) and Women, Enlightenment, and Catholicism: A Transnational Biographical History (Routledge: 2018). He was selected as a Member and Herodotus Fellow in the School of Historical Studies at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, a fellow at the Institute for Comparative History of Religious Orders at the University of Eichstätt, Distinguished Fellow at the NDIAS (twice), fellow of the Earhart foundation (twice), and fellow of the Humboldt and Friedrich von Siemens Foundation. In 2014 he was inducted into the European Academy for Sciences and Arts.

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0:00.0	Thank you very much for the kind words.
0:03.0	And before I begin my talk, I must make a confession.
0:07.0	I'm not a Thomist.
0:09.0	You probably didn't expect that from a lecture sponsored by the Thomistic Institute,
0:15.0	but I don't know enough about the angelic doctor to consider myself a Thomist.
0:20.0	I'm all the more grateful that I've
0:23.1	been invited here, surrounded by two scholars of Aquinas and two students of Aquinas. And I'm glad
0:28.9	that you didn't ask me to speak on Aquinas. There is something else you should know. This is my
0:34.0	first time in Texas.
0:44.3	I once met the late Tristam Englehart who taught ethics at Rice, and after he found out I was from Bavaria, he came over to me and looked at me and said,
0:49.3	You know, Bavarians and Texans have a lot in common. We both of our own language, we love leather clothes, and he was pointing to his boots,
0:59.0	and we were both occupied by a bigger country.
1:06.0	I love our independence.
1:08.0	I was tempted to wear my later was in today to show you my Bavarian
1:12.6	heritage, but I thought there would be a tad too much. God is not nice is the topic of the
1:19.6	lecture tonight. And if I told you, and if you told someone you were planning to attend
1:26.6	such a lecture, you might have gotten
1:29.3	a strong reaction when you mentioned the title of the lecture.
1:33.3	It happens to me all the time, even in faculty meetings sometimes.
1:37.3	People either giggle or groan when they hear it, even among theologians.
1:43.3	And I think that's a good thing, because obviously
1:46.8	the phrase, God is not nice, strikes a chord, but also because it causes associations with the
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