Hillsdale College Lecture Series Commemorates 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation
Keynote Speaker Kevin Vanhoozer concludes semester-long series
Hillsdale, Mich.—Hillsdale College will host the third and final installment of its fall lecture series, This Far by Faith: The Reformation at 500. The third session, “Faith and Authority,” features lectures from Hillsdale faculty members and a keynote address from Kevin Vanhoozer, research professor of systematic theology at Trinity International University. In his lecture, “Mere Protestant Christianity: Sola Scriptura and the Comic Possibility of Reformation,” Vanhoozer will draw on his academic expertise in scripture and theology to examine biblical interpretation under the Reformation’s influence.
Lectures are free and open to the public. Media are asked to RSVP to [email protected].
WHEN
Thursday, November 30, 2017
4 p.m. ET
Faculty Lecture: Matthew Gaetano, “Successor of the Fisherman or Antichrist: The Pope in Post-Reformation Controversy”
7 p.m. ET
Keynote Lecture: Kevin Vanhoozer, “Mere Protestant Christianity: Sola Scriptura and the Comic Possibility of Reformation”
Friday, December 1, 2017
4 p.m. ET
Faculty Lecture: Eric Hutchinson, “The Appeal to Antiquity: The Patristic Reformation in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries”
7 p.m. ET
Faculty Panel
WHERE
Hillsdale College
Phillips Auditorium
315 North West Street
Hillsdale, MI 49242
WHO
Kevin Vanhoozer is a research professor of systematic theology at Trinity International University’s Evangelical Divinity School. He earned his doctorate from Cambridge University, his Master of Divinity from Westminster Theological Seminary and his bachelor’s degree from Westmont College. Before assuming his current position, Vanhoozer was Blanchard Professor of Theology at Wheaton College and Graduate School and also senior lecturer in theology and religious studies at the University of Edinburgh. Vanhoozer has authored several works, including Biblical Authority after Babel; Biblical Narrative in the Philosophy of Paul Ricouer; and Is There a Meaning in this Text? The Bible, the Reader, and the Morality of Literary Knowledge. He is on the editorial board of International Journal of Systematic Theology and Journal of Theological Interpretation. Vanhoozer also serves as the North American consultant to InterVarsity Press and its New Dictionary of Theology.