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The Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship announces the schedule of this semester's Calvin Center Hours. This annual series of monthly presentations aims to keep the larger Calvin community informed about work ongoing under CCCS grants and to sponsor special events pertaining to the overall agenda of Christian scholarship. Please mark your Fall calendars and join us at the following presentations:
March 2008 -- Public Lecture by Dr. Marion Taylor
Reading the Scripture with our Foremothers
Women have been thoughtful readers of scripture throughout the ages, yet the history of interpretation has not included their voices. Dr. Marion Taylor, Prof. of Old Testament at Wycliffe College, Toronto School of Theology, will introduce us to the riches that are discovered when we seek to uncover these forgotten writings. Authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Christina Rossetti, Josephine Butler, Grace Aquilar and many others have much to teach us. Prof. Taylor has co-edited an anthology of women's interpretations of scripture, "Let Her Speak for Herself: Women Writing on Women in Genesis," (2006), and is working on a second volume in the series.
We will also celebrate the recent publication of Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters of the Bible (2007), a co-edited volume by
Dr. Marion Taylor and Dr. Christiana de Groot (Religion Department).
March 4
3:30 PM
Commons Lecture Hall
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Sponsored by: Gender Studies, Religion Department, and the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship
November 2007 -- CCCS Hour
John Calvin Rediscovered: The Impact of His Social and Economic Thought
a volume co-edited by
James D. Bratt
Directore of the CCCS &
Professor of History at Calvin College
The Calvin community is cordially invited to hear James Bratt and Karin Maag (professor of history and director of the Meeter Center) discuss the impact that John Calvin's social and economic thought had in his own time and place and in later centuries around the globe.
November 14, 2007
3:30 PM
Commons Lecture Hall
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Sponsored by: The Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship, the Department of History, and the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies.
October 2007 -- Public Lecture by J. Hillis Miller
Literature and Scripture: An "Impossible Filiation"
October 18, 2007
7:00 PM
Calvin College Chapel
Presentation -- Quicktime Movie (.mov)
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Presentation -- Audio (.mp3)
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This lecture discusses the relation between literature and Scripture by way of what Derrida says about “impossible filiation.” Miller takes Beloved and The Divine Comedy as examples of literature and the Abraham and Isaac story and the Mary Magdalene story at the end of Luke (recognition of the risen Christ) as examples of Scriptural stories. Miller claims they make quite different claims on the reader's allegiance, but that Western literature, even the most secular, inherits essential things from Scripture. Miller concludes by discussing the so-called “turn to religion” in the humanities today from the perspective of a long career that has seen fads come and go, and religion relocate in university life.
Sponsored by: The Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship, the Office of the Provost, the Department of English, and the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences.
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Important Dates
- Major grant applications are due by October 15, 2008. Learn more »
- Faculty proposals for 2008-2009 working groups are due by April 15, 2008. Learn more »