News from the Hill April 17, 2008 | back to index
Jonathan Edwards Lecture 2008
Andover Newton Theological School is proud to announce the details of the 2008 Jonathan Edwards Lecture, to be given Monday, April 21 at 5 p.m. in Wilson Chapel. This year’s speaker is the Reverend Dr. Barbara Rossing, Professor of New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, who will offer the lecture entitled “Apocalypse and Ecology: Is This the End of the World?”
Ordained in 1982, Dr. Rossing served as pastor of a congregation in Minnesota, director for Global Mission Interpretation for the American Lutheran Church, pastor at Holden Village Retreat Center, Chelan, Washington, and chaplain at Harvard University Divinity School.
Dr. Rossing has lectured and preached widely, including synod assemblies and global mission events for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), as well as ecumenical theological conferences. She serves on the executive committee and council of the Lutheran World Federation, where she also chairs the Lutheran World Federation's Theology and Studies Committee. Her publications include The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation (Basic Books, 2004), a critique of fundamentalist “Left Behind” theology; The Choice Between Two Cities: Whore, Bride and Empire in the Apocalypse (Trinity Press, 1999); two volumes of the New Proclamation commentary for preachers (Fortress Press, 2000 and 2004) and articles and book chapters on the Apocalypse and ecology.
As always, the lecture is free, and open to the public.
