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The Washburn University department of philosophy and religion will host the 40th annual Thomas L. King Lecture in Religious Studies. This year's lecture will be given by Robyn Faith Walsh, who describes her talk in this way:“Argumentum ad lunam: Discourse and Competition on the Moon”
Throughout Paul’s letters in the New Testament, there are curious references to cosmology, trips to the “third heaven,” and even meditations on the nature and purpose of the moon and other celestial objects. When compared with ancient Greek and Roman writers and philosophers, such discourse is commonplace. But modern translations, influenced by later Christian theological understandings of the afterlife, obscure the degree to which Paul is engaged in demonstrating his authority on questions of extraterrestrial existence. In an age in which discourses and demonstrations involving the moon were rife, I argue that Paul envisions Christ-followers ultimately existing among the stars in pneumatic or spiritual form, with a home specifically in the shadow of the moon.
About Robyn Faith Walsh:
Robyn Faith Walsh is an Associate Professor at the University of Miami (UM). She earned her doctorate at Brown University in Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean, with a focus on early Christianity, ancient Judaism, and Roman archaeology.
Her book, The Origins of Early Christian Literature: Contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman Literary Culture, was published with Cambridge University Press.
About the Thomas L. King Lecture:
The Thomas L. King lecture series has been fortunate to have a number of distinguished scholars as speakers. Previous lecturers have included Walter Brueggemann, Jacob Neusner, Martin Marty, John Dominic Crossan, Huston Smith, Wendy Doniger, Bart Ehrman, Peter Gomes, and Eva Morczek. In addition to the formal public lecture, speakers' schedules are typically arranged so they can meet informally with a class of undergraduates.
The Thomas L. King Lecture in Religious Studies always is free and open to the public. It is held each spring semester.
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