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Date: November 22, 1999
The Reverend John Neuhaus to Discuss Religion and Public Policy
PRINCETON, N.J. -- The Reverend Richard John Neuhaus, president of the Institute on Religion and Public Life, will speak on "The Public Square: Naked, Sacred, or Civil?" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Thursday, December 9, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Dodds Auditorium.
Neuhaus is also editor-in-chief of First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, published by the New York City-based Institute on Religion and Public Life, a nonpartisan interreligious research and education institute. He is the author of numerous books, among them Freedom for Ministry; The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America; The Catholic Moment: The Paradox of the Church in the Postmodern World; and with Rabbi Leon Klenicki, Believing Today: Jew and Christian in Conversation.
As a Lutheran clergyman, he spent 17 years as the senior pastor of a low-income parish in Brooklyn, and has played a leadership role in organizations dealing with civil rights, international justice, and ecumenism. He has held presidential appointments in the Carter, Reagan, and Bush administrations, and a survey of national leadership in U.S. News and World Report named him one of the 32 "most influential intellectuals in America." In 1991, he was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of New York.
His talk is being sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School and the Center for the Study of Religion.