ANNOUNCING: Annual Ciszek Lecture |
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Rev. William S. Kurz, S.J.
Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2006 |
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| Father Kurz shares his personal scholarly journey from graduate studies at Yale until today in search of ways to understand and teach Scripture as an openly confessing Catholic scholar for Catholic believers. He relates the strengths and limitations of historical critical approaches, the excitement and disappointments of literary studies of the Bible, to a forthrightly Catholic Christian reading of Scripture inspired by Church Fathers like Sts. Irenaeus and Athanasius. | |
Father Kurz is Professor of New Testament in his thirty-second year of teaching at Marquette. He is the author of over forty articles in professional journals and six books, including Following Jesus: A Disciple's Guide to Luke and Acts (Charis Books, 2003) and What Does the Bible Say About the end Times?: A Catholic View (St. Anthony's Messenger Press, 2004). He is currently working on a manuscript, titled God's Mystery Story: Reading the Bible as Catholics, for publication later in 2006. The refereed journal Nova et Vetera has scheduled for January 2006 publication a written Symposium on Kurz's book (co-authored with Luke Timothy Johnson), The Future of Catholic Biblical Scholarship (Eerdmans, 2002). Five invited biblical scholars and theologians each composed an open-ended "response" to issues raised in the book, to which Johnson and Kurz each wrote replies. |
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The lecture is sponsored in part by Raynor Memorial Libraries’ Walter J. Ciszek Catholic Spirituality Collection. Founded in 2001 by a generous gift of the Marquette Knights of Columbus, the Collection houses books and videos on Catholic devotional literature, meditations, catechisms, conversion stories, and works on vocation. A lecture series brings featured authors to campus each year. |
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The Ciszek Lecture is sponsored by: Refreshments will be served following the presentation. The Ciszek Lecture is free and
open to all. |
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