Wycliffe Centre for Scripture and Theology Fall Colloquium 2013 - Reading Paul

Wycliffe Centre for Scripture and Theology Fall Colloquium 2013 announced.

It is a geat line-up on "Reading Paul: Exegetical Method and Interpretation after the 'New Perspectives.'"
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Reading Paul: Exegetical Method and Interpretation After the "New Perspectives"
Presentations by
Dr. Ian W. Scott (Tyndale)
"Overview of the 'New Perspectives'"
Author of Paul's Way of Knowing: Story, Experience, and Spirit. Baker, 2008.
9:15am

Dr. Douglas Harink (King's College)
"Prolegomena to an Imagined Project: Systematic Theology as a Commentary on Romans"
Author of 1 & 2 Peter. Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible. Brazos, 2009; Paul among the Postliberals: Pauline Theology beyond Christendom and Modernity. Brazos, 2003.
10:30am

Dr. Stephen Westerholm (McMaster Univeristy)
"Galatians and the Justification Debate"
Author of Perspectives Old and New on Paul: The 'Lutheran Paul and His Critics. Eerdmans, 2004; Understanding Paul: The Early Christian Worldview of the Letter to the Romans. Baker, 2004.
1:00pm

Dr. Ann Jervis (Wycliffe College)
Response
Author of Galatians. Baker, 2011; At the Heart of the Gospel: Suffering in the Earliest Christian Message. Eerdmans, 2007.
2:30pm
Friday, October 18, 2013
9 am to 3:30pm
@
Leonard Hall
Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto
5 Hoskin Avenue
Toronto ON M5S 1H7
Morning Refreshment and lunch provided. No registration required

Questions? Please email Prof. Ephraim Radner at e.radner@wycliffe.utoronto.ca

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