|  Edward L. Mark Lecture:
Elaine Wainwright
November 12, 2009
7:30 p.m.
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The annual Edward L. Mark Lecture will be held on Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. at Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church, 1555 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Elaine Wainwright, Richard Maclaurin Goodfellow Professor in Theology and Head of the School of Theology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, will deliver the lecture and has chosen as her topic, "Parable and Parabler, Habitat and Humanity: Telling Gospel Stories Anew in the Face of the Ecological Imperative."
The Lecture is free and open to the public. Harvard-Epworth is located three blocks north of the Harvard Square Red Line “T” stop; across from Cambridge Common and adjacent to Harvard Law School, and is handicapped accessible.
For more information about the lecture or to reserve seating, contact Harvard-Epworth by phone at 617-354-0837 or by email at harvardepworth@verizon.net.
Background Information
Parable and Parabler, Habitat and Humanity:
Telling Gospel Stories Anew in the Face of the Ecological Imperative:
At the heart of Matthew’s Gospel is Jesus’ proclamation of God’s basileia, God’s dream for Earth in all its amazing unfolding and expanding. This proclamation reaches a climax, according to some scholars, in the Parable Discourse of Matt 13. But just as Jesus needed to proclaim his basileia vision in the context of his time, so too must we continue that task of ever renewed interpretation in the face of the urgent ecological challenges that confront all Earth constituents at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This lecture will explore insights into one way in which this task might be undertaken using chosen parables from Matt 13.
Elaine Wainwright, Biographical Information—
Elaine Wainwright is Richard Maclaurin Goodfellow Professor in Theology and Head of the School of Theology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is a New Testament scholar specializing in gospel studies, in particular, the Gospel of Matthew. She has a long-standing commitment to contextual interpretation, having specialized in feminist biblical studies over a number of years and in postcolonial and ecological readings more recently and is concerned to develop clear hermeneutical and methodological foundations for her careful readings of texts in their socio-historical and contemporary contexts. Apart from a range of scholarly articles, her book publications include Toward a Feminist Critical Reading of the Gospel According to Matthew (de Gruyter, 1991); Shall We Look for Another? A Feminist Rereading of the Matthean Jesus (Orbis, 1998); and Women Healing, Healing Women: The Genderization of Healing in Early Christianity (Equinox, 2006).
Further information about Professor Wainwright is available at her website.
About the Edward L. Mark Lectures—
The Edward L. Mark Lectures were established in 2001 to honor the ministry of Rev. Edward L. Mark, pastor of Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church from 1964 to 1996. Each year the series brings to Harvard-Epworth a distinguished scholar of biblical exegesis, church history or historical Jesus study. The late Bishop Krister Stendahl, former dean of Harvard Divinity School and bishop of Stockholm, delivered the inaugural Edward L. Mark Lecture – “Why I Love the Bible.” Other Mark Lecturers have included: Marcus Borg of Oregon State University, E. P. Sanders of Duke University, Paula Fredriksen of Boston University, Luke Timothy Johnson of the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, Ellen Davis of Duke Divinity School, and Amy-Jill Levine of Vanderbilt Divinity School.
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