New York Theological Seminary Professor Rev. Dr. Jill Schaeffer Moderates Films in Conversation
Dr. Schaeffer is a moderator in the festival's first Films in Conversation program in which festival goers engage in a collective discourse about specific, theories, implications, lessons and/or themes in films screened. Together, festival goers and Dr. Schaeffer will examine Handling the Moral Failures of Heroes utilizing the film The Two Faces of Martin Luther as a springboard to discussion.
The Rev. Dr. Jill R. Schaeffer is a Visiting Associate Professor of Ethics at New York Theological Seminary. She is a graduate of San Francisco Theological Seminary (MDiv 1984) and Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley (PhD 1999). She was ordained to Ministry of Word and Sacrament in 1985, Presbytery of the Redwoods, California. From 1970-1972 she studied at the New York Center for Psychoanalytic Training and from 1969-1973 she did Graduate work in Clinical Psychology at the New School for Social Research in New York City.
Dr. Schaeffer was an Adjunct Professor in New York Theological Seminary’s Master of Professional Studies Program (MPS) at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, Ossining, New York. She taught Church History I and II, Introduction to Christian Ethics, Religion in American Culture and Introduction to First and Second Testament.