The public is invited, either in person or online, to the Carmichael-Walling Lectures at Abilene Christian University Thursday, Nov. 7. The annual lectures are hosted by ACU’s Center for the Study of Ancient Religious Texts. Dr. Te-Li Lau of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School will give the 2024 lectures on the theme Spiritual Emotions. 4 p.m.–Listening to Pauline Shame7 p.m.–Emotions and
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This year’s Carmichael-Walling Lectures at Abilene Christian University will feature Dr. Laura Nasrallah of Yale Divinity School. Her presentations will be at 4 and 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, in Room 114 in ACU’s Onstead-Packer Biblical Studies Building. The lectures are free and open to the public. Register here to live stream. The lectureship is presented by ACU’s Center for the Study
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The 35th annual Carmichael-Walling Lectures will be presented Thursday, Nov. 4, by Abilene Christian University’s Center for the Study of Ancient Religious Texts.Dr. Nijay Gupta of Northern Seminary will speak on the theme, “Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous and Attractive.” People of Faith: Why the First Christians Called Themselves “Believers” (4 p.m.) Even though ancient people were
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CARMICHAEL-WALLING LECTURESWhen: 4 and 7:30 p.m. CST Thursday, Nov. 12Lecturer: Dr. Vincent L. Wimbush, founding director of the Institute for Signifying ScripturesTheme: Scriptures and RaceLectures: 4 p.m. “Mystic Hieroglyphics of the Flesh”: Scripturalization as Racialization; 7:30 p.m. “Even the Bible Was Made Over to Suit Our Vivid Imagination”: Scripturalizing the HumanAccess: Contact csart@acu.edu to RSVP for this Zoom webinar event Dr. Vincent
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By Loretta FULTON Amy-Jill Levine, a Jewish New Testament scholar from Vanderbilt University, will be guest speaker for the Carmichael-Walling Lectures at Abilene Christian University Nov. 14. She will speak at 4 and 7:15 p.m. Both lectures will be in Room 114 of the Biblical Studies Building and are free and open to the public. Theme of the lectures is
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By LORETTA FULTON Jeff Childers got plenty of feedback from the Carmichael-Walling Lectures at Abilene Christian University–and that was before the lectures were even given. It’s no surprise, considering the title of the annual lecture series: “Friends and Drunks: Two Glimpses into the Social History of the Early Christians and Their World.” Childers joked that the feedback was in the form
Read moreBy Loretta Fulton There is a reason Dorothy L. Sayers chose the gospel of John when she wrote her series of 12 radio plays in 1943 depicting key events in the life of Jesus titled, “The Man Born to Be King.” And, there is a reason that director Franco Zeffirelli, who co-wrote the script to the 1977 television series, Jesus of
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