[amc] FW: Lecture by Wayne Meeks
- From: Steve Friesen <Friesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Austin Mennonite Church <amc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 09:03:25 -0600
Late breaking news! Important senior scholar talking about the historical
Jesus on Thursday afternoon. I wish this had been announced earlier, but
you still have time to make it.
Steve
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Steve Friesen
Louise Farmer Boyer Chair in Biblical Studies
University of Texas at Austin
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Dept. of Classics
1 Univ. Station C3400
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78712
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> Wayne A. Meeks,
> Woolsey Professor of Biblical Studies Emeritus
> Yale University
>
> "Does Anybody Know My Jesus?: Between Dogma and Romanticism"
>
> Thursday, November 10, 2005
> 3:30 pm in WAG 116 (Classics Department Lounge)
>
>
> Professor Meeks is one of the leading scholars of New Testament and
> Christian Origins over the past quarter century. He earned the M.Div.
> degree from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the PhD from Yale.
> He taught at Indiana University for several years before returning to Yale
> where taught in and chaired the Religious Studies Department for several
> terms. He has served as President of the Society of Biblical Literature and
> the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (Society of New Testament Studies) in
> Europe.
>
> Most noted for his pioneering work on the social world of the early
> Christians, Prof. Meeks has published or edited six books and numerous
> articles. His books include The Man from Heaven in Johannine Sectarianism
> (1972), The Writings of St. Paul (1977), The First Urban Christians: The
> Social World of the Apostle Paul (1983; 2nd ed., 2000), The Origins of
> Christian Morality (1993), and The Search for the First Christians:
> Collected Essays (2002). He also served as series editor for the acclaimed
> series The Early Christian Library and for the Harper-Collins Annotated
> Study Bible. His lecture at UT will come in part out of the subject matter
> of his forthcoming book entitled Christ is the Question, a penetrating
> analysis of the ³constructedness² of Jesus in the New Testament, early
> Christianity, western culture, and especially in the American religious
> landscape. Below I attach several blurbs that will appear on the book
> jacket.
>
> The lecture is being co-sponsored by the Institute for the Study of
> Antiquity & Christian Origins and the Religious Studies Program. Please
> join us for what I can assure you will be both an insightful and
> entertaining lecture. Wayne Meeks is truly one of the greats in the
> field of religious studies, and a great speaker, too. Please join us.
>
> --
> Prof. L. Michael White <lmwhite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> R.N. Smith Endowed Chair in Classics and Religious Studies
> Director, Institute for the Study of Antiquity & Christian Origins
> http://www.utexas.edu/research/isac/
>
> Department of Classics Tel: 512-232-1438
> 1 University Station (C3400) Fax: 512-232-1439
> The University of Texas at Austin
> Austin, TX 78712-0308
>
>
>
>
> Christ is the Question
> by Wayne A. Meeks
>
> Cover Endorsements
>
> In this explosive book Wayne Meeks shows the way beyond both liberal and
> conservative readings of the New Testament. In probing strikes, Meeks
> demolishes the premise they share in common, namely, that it is possible to
> get to the brute fact of Jesus who thus provides the reader with a fully
> secure truth. In prose at once electric, lucid, and economical, Meeks
> disabuses the reader of this illusion. Neither the intent, nor the result,
> smacks in the slightest of the jaded rationalist or Nietzschian poseur.
> Jesus is the provocation who invites answers while rendering all of them
> questionable. Jesus is the question whose provocation is interminable. This
> book is an ³untimely² intervention that does what all truly important books
> do; it entirely changes the conversation.
>
> ?Cyril O¹Regan, Huisking Professor of Theology, University of
> Notre Dame
>
>
> Witty, perceptive, learned, and wise, this is not just another book about
> the historical Jesus; it is a masterly reflection by a master scholar with
> four decades of scholarship behind him. For Wayne Meeks, the question of
> who Christ is cannot be resolved by post-enlightenment scientific historical
> investigation (the advent of which he sketches with verve and insight). For
> him, the historical Jesus is the Jesus who ?makes¹ history, as he has been
> understood by his followers over the centuries and in our own day.
>
> ?Bart D. Ehrman, Professor of Religious Studies, University of
> North Carolina, Chapel Hill
>
>
> This is far more than just another book about Jesus. Writing with his
> customary clarity and power, Meeks reviews long-term developments in western
> theories about history, knowledge, hermeneutics, and human selfhood in order
> to reconceptualize the task of describing Jesus historically. Meeks argues
> that Jesus' identity is not a permanent historical artifact to be uncovered
> by careful technique, but the outcome of transactions between him and those
> who knew/know him. Because the transactions are still going on we are still
> learning who Jesus is. Christ is the Question will engage and benefit both
> church and academy?all who care about Jesus and about the way his image is
> used and misused in the world today.
>
> ?Susan R. Garrett, Professor of New Testament, Louisville
> Presbyterian Seminary, and
> Coordinator, Louisville
> Grawemeyer Award in Religion
>
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