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October 2004 |
Jesus scholar to present Mendenhall Lecture at DePauw
GREENCASTLE, Ind. - Internationally known biblical scholar Marcus J. Borg will come to the campus of DePauw University to deliver the fall Mendenhall Lecture, Wednesday, Nov. 10.
Described by the New York Times as "a leading figure in his generation of Jesus scholars, " Borg holds the Hundere Chair in Religion and Culture in the Philosophy Department at Oregon State University. His address will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church, and is free and open to the public.
Dr.Borg is the author of twelve books, including Jesus: A New Vision, and the best-seller Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time. Other works include God at 2000, Reading the Bible Again for the First Time, The Heart of Christianity, and The God We Never Knew, which was named one of 1997's ten-best books in religion by Publishers Weekly.
Borg sees philosophy as primarily concerned with the role of ideas in our lives. "Ideas matter," Borg says, "much more than we commonly think they do - especially our world-views and values, namely our ideas about what is real and how we are to live. We receive such ideas from our culture as we grow up, and unless we examine them, we will not be free persons, but will to a large extent live out the agenda of our socialization."
Martin Borg has appeared on NBC's Today Show and Dateline, PBS' Newshour, ABC's World News Tonight and Prime Time with Peter Jennings, and NPR's Fresh Air. A Fellow of the Jesus Seminar, he has been national chair of the Historical Jesus Section of the Society of Biblical Literature and co-chair of its International New Testament Program Committee, and is past president of the Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars and a regular columnist for Beliefnet, A Web site publication. His work has been translated into eight languages: German, Dutch, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Portugese, and French.
His doctor's degree is from Oxford University, and he has lectured widely overseas (England, Scotland, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Hungary, Israel and South Africa) and in North America, including the Chautauqua and Smithsonian Institutions.
The Mendenhall Lectures, which were inaugurated in 1913, were endowed by the Rev. Dr. Marmaduke H. Mendenhall. A pastor in the North Indiana Annual Conference of the former Methodist Episcopal Church, now part of The United Methodist Church.
Last updated on 25 Apr 2008