Kenneth W. Clark Lectures
Established in 1984, the Kenneth Willis Clark Lectureship Fund honors the life and work of Reverend Professor Kenneth Willis Clark, a Divinity School faculty member for 36 years. Each year this fund enables the Divinity School to offer a distinguished program with special emphasis on New Testament studies and textual criticism.
The Historical Jesus and the Theological Jesus
Dr. Dale C. Allison Jr., the 2008 Clark lecturer, is professor of New Testament exegesis and early Christianity at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania.
February 27-28 , 2008
Duke Divinity School
Schedule
Dr. Allison |
Wednesday, Feb. 27 from 11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Lecture: The Historical Jesus and the Theological Jesus
Goodson Chapel, Duke Divinity School
Thursday, Feb. 28 from 12:20 – 1:20 p.m.
Lecture: The Historical Jesus and the Theological Jesus
Goodson Chapel, Duke Divinity School
These are free public lectures.
No pre-registration is necessary.
Biography
Dale C. Allison Jr.’s areas of expertise include Second Temple Judaism. He is also the author of books on early Christian eschatology, the Gospel of Matthew, the so-called Sayings Source of Q, the historical Jesus, and the Testament of Abraham.
Allison’s most recent books are:
- Resurrecting Jesus: The Earliest Christian Tradition and Its Interpreters; (T. & T. Clark 2005), a collection of essays on the historical Jesus and the resurrection;
Studies in Matthew: Interpretation Past and Present; (Baker Academic 2005);
The Luminous Dusk: Finding God in the Deep, Still Places; (Eerdmans, 2006), about religious experience in the modern world; and
The Love There That's Sleeping: The Art and Spirituality of George Harrison; (T. & T. Clark 2006).
He is currently working on a full-length commentary on the book of James.
Allison has previously served on the faculties of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth and Friends University in Wichita, Kan.