JACKSON, March 4-- Union University will host a Colloquium of Christian Scholars" featuring two of the nation's premier evangelical scholars March 7 and 8.
The colloquium, which was established through a $45,000 grant from the Pew Charitable Trust, enhances the culture of Christian scholarship on campus through academic presentations. Union faculty are also reviewed as candidates for summer research grants during the colloquium.
Union was one of only six colleges in the nation chosen for the Pew grant, which will provide four $3,500 research stipends to Union faculty each summer for the next three years.
The program's focal point is the combination of faith and learning," George Guthrie, chair of Union's department of Christian studies, said. By attracting top scholars to our campus and encouraging faculty research, I feel we can really advance Christian scholarly research at Union University."
This panel of scholars includes Roger Lundin, a literary critic and English professor from Wheaton College, and Moises Silva, chair of the department of New Testament at Westminister Theological Seminary and research professor at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary.
Both panelists are widely published, including Lundin's Culture of Interpretation: Christian Faith and the Postmodern World and Silva's Has the Church Misread the Bible?
Lundin will make a presentation titled The Discipline of the Christian Scholar: The Christian Scholar Across the Disciplines" Thursday, March 7, at 7 p.m. in Davis-Kidd Booksellers' conference room. A dutch treat dinner precedes the presentation at 6 p.m. in the Davis-Kidd Café.
Silva will speak Friday, March 8, at 10 a.m. in Union's G.M. Savage Memorial Chapel, and both scholars will field questions in an open forum dutch treat luncheon at noon in the Coburn Dining Room.
All events are open to the public, but seating is limited.
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