Vol. 48 No. 2 (2021): A Teacher's Life Lives On: Remembering Vítor Westhelle

This issue of Currents, “A Teacher’s Life Lives On: Remembering Vítor Westhelle,” features a tribute to how the teaching and scholarship of Vítor Westhelle continues to influence the lives and scholarship of those who were working with him at the time of his death from cancer in May 2018 and lives on in the work of myriad other students and colleagues in the U.S. and around the world. The commemoration section contains six essays.  The first five essays reveal different ways that Vítor Westhelle has influenced the theological work of PhD students who came to LSTC from various global contexts to study with him, as well as his influence on students preparing for various forms of parish and diaconal ministry. The culminating essay in this section, written by a theological colleague, reflects on the author's own journey with cancer in the light of Vítor’s theology.  The Focus essay section of the issue consists of a practical teaching case study connecting the novel The Gunslinger to key elements of Tillich's theology, as well as a rationale for a social statement on child abuse and child protection.