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(1/29/09)
"How the Bible is True” is the subject of this year’s Summers Lecture at Millsaps College on Tuesday, Feb. 10 at 11:30 a.m. in the Gertrude C. Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall.
Luke Timothy Johnson, of Candler School of Theology at Emory University, will present the free, public lecture which calls for a renewal of imaginative reading of Scripture to counter the tendency of historical criticism and literalism to reduce the scriptural basis of faith.
The lecture will be accompanied by a series of other events: at 10 a.m. a pre-lecture discussion of "Issues in Contemporary Biblical Studies" will be held in the Ford Academic Complex, Room 215, led by religious studies faculty; at 12:45, lunch in the Leggett Center and responses from four religious scholars will follow the lecture; and an open Q&A session with Dr. Johnson will be from 2 to 3 p.m. in the Leggett Center. Lunch is $5 or you may bring your own.
Johnson is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at the Candler School of Theology and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University, where he has taught since 1992. His research interests include Greco-Roman contexts of early Christianity (particularly moral discourse), Luke-Acts, the Pastoral Letters, and the Letter of James. He is the author of 23 books, including The Writings of the New Testament: An Interpretation; A Commentary on the Gospel of Luke; Reading Romans: A Literary and Theological Commentary; The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels; and Living Jesus: Learning the Heart of the Gospels.
He is a frequent participant in debates about the state of biblical scholarship, as in The Future of Catholic Biblical Scholarship (with William S. Kurz). His most recent book, Among the Gentiles: Greco-Roman Religion and the Ways of Being Christian, will appear this year in the Yale Anchor Bible Library.
Attendance at all activities is required to receive ½ CEU credit. For more information, contact the Religious Studies Department at 601-974-1334 or e-mail Steve Smith at smithsg@millsaps.edu.
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