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9:55am in Mulder Chapel - WTS Chapel service
1:30pm LECTURE in Maas Hall, room 159 - “Augustine and Howard Thurman”
7:00pm LECTURE in Mulder Chapel - “Harriet Jacobs and the Solentiname
Community”
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Is the “Good Samaritan” Good?
Listening to the Parable’s Later Witnesses
with Dr. Emerson Powery
Professor of Biblical Studies
Messiah College, Mechanicsburg, PA
The “Good Samaritan” is one of the most popular parables in Christian history and has significant relevance for every age. As recorded in Luke 10, Jesus imagines an “enemy” as the central hero of the story.
Sometimes we can only hear the truth when a storyteller overdramatizes the point. Of particular interest is the hermeneutical nature of Jesus’ initial response. To the lawyer’s opening query, Jesus replies, “How do you read?” We will hear how others—Augustine, Howard Thurman, Harriet Jacobs, the Solentiname Community of Nicaragua—interpreted the parable in order to hear it afresh for our age.
Indeed, the way one reads the Bible defines and determines the way one thinks about life. Hermeneutics and ethics are inseparable. Jesus reveals how he reads Torah when he places a
person most unlike his listeners at the center of the story and asks his immediate audience—and generations to follow—to “go and do likewise.”
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Western Theological Seminary, 101 E 13th St, Holland, MI 49423, United States