Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Free public lecture by Dr Richard Hays, noted biblical scholar






Public Lecture by Rev. Dr. Richard Hays, Duke Divinity School
Thursday, June 6, 2013, 7:00 PM
Trinity School for Ministry
311 Eleventh St
Ambridge, PA 15003

On Thursday evening, June 6, 2013, at 7:00 P.M., The Rev. Dr. Richard Hays will give a public lecture on the campus of Trinity School for Ministry. While this lecture will serve as a session of the Ancient Evangelical Future Conference taking place June 5-7, Trinity would also like to make it available at no charge to those not attending the conference.

The title of Dean Hays' lecture is: "The Creed as Hermeneutical Lens for Reading Scripture - and Vice-Versa." The lecture will take place in the Commons Hall at Trinity and will be followed by a book signing.

Richard B. Hays (Ph.D., Emory University) is Dean and George Washington Ivey Professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity School. He is internationally recognized for his work on the letters of Paul and New Testament ethics. His numerous publications include The Moral Vision of the New Testament, The Faith of Jesus Christ, and The Conversion of the Imagination. His most recent publication is entitled Revelation and the Politics of Apocalyptic Interpretation (co-edited with Stefan Alkier), and he is currently working on a book about the Old Testament in the Gospels. Dean Hays is an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church.

For more information, please contact Dawn Bates, Administrative Coordinator for Extension Ministries at Trinity School for Ministry, 724-266-3838 or dbates@tsm.edu .