David Morgan, professor of Christianity and the arts at Valparaiso University, will present a lecture on April 18 at 7 p.m. entitled "The Search for the American Jesus."

The lecture will be given in the McClung Museum Auditorium on Circle Park Drive. Morgan will be discussing how images of Jesus have helped people experience him in different ways.

"He will explore the vital role that images have played over the last 150 years of the American Christian quest to envision Jesus," UT assistant professor of art history Alexis Boylan.

Morgan has written many books involving religious imagery. His newest book, The Lure of Images: A History of Visual Media and Religion in America, will be available this summer .

Among his other accomplishments, Morgan was the Chair of International Study Commission on Media, Religion and Culture. He is also the co-founder of an international scholarly journal called Material Religion.

The lecture will be sponsored by groups including the English Art History Department and the Religious Studies Department of UT, and the Humanities Initiative.

For more information, contact Alexis Boylan at aboylan@utk.edu.