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Reading Scripture through Other Eyes

January 19-21, 2011

With:
Walter Bruggemann
Teresa Okure
Gerald West
Other speakers to be announced.

In times of historic change and transition, the Church faces pressures and challenges that remind us of our need for grounding, both in the constituting vision of God and our relation to God found in Scriptures. To be faithful to what one values most during times of dynamic change often means breaking from stasis to consider new modes of expression.

With the help of our distinguished keynote speakers, we will address how we read Scriptures, in order to become more conscious of what we are doing, and what we are looking for, when we return to the Bible as source of inspiration for our lives.

Walter Bruggemann is widely considered one of the preeminent contemporary Bible scholars. After a long and distinguished teaching career he is professor emeritus, Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia. His more than fifty books include The Prophetic Imagination, The Book that Breathes New Life, and Redescribing Reality.

Teresa Okure, SHCJ, is Professor of New Testament and Gender Hermeneutics at the Catholic Institute of West Africa, Nigeria, and Head of the Department of Biblical Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Theology. Her publications and lectures have drawn international acclaim. 

Gerald West led the team that designed the Bible studies that were an integral and transformative element of the global Anglican Communion’s Lambeth Conference 2008. He is Professor in the School of Theology, University of Kwazulu-Natal and Director of the Ujamaa Center for Biblical and Theological Community Development and Research in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.