lecture, entitled “Constantine and Conversion: The Roles of the First Christian Emperor,” originally delivered at the National Gallery of Art on May 11, 2014, Professor Grafton argues that in their retelling of the dramatic and exemplary life of Constantine, scholars and artists forged new forensic, historical, and multidisciplinary approaches. They used philological and antiquarian evidence to unpack a layered and incoherent body of evidence that exposed the apocryphal legends of what has been called an “inherited conglomerate.” Protestant and Catholic writers concurred in their assessment that Constantine’s reign marked a radical transformation of art and religion and was thus a historical moment of great consequence—yet one or two began to see Constantine in less dramatic terms, as the human, political figure that he was. The erudition and imaginationof these scholars and artists in the early modern period produced sophisticated and acute views of the early church, from which we can still profit today.

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Deirdre Good, Academic Dean and Professor of New Testament at General Seminary presented a multimedia examination at St Bartholomew's Church on March 21st 2014 in mid-town Manhattan on the theme of “Mary Magdalene and Jesus in the Garden” in text, art, and music. I am so glad to be able to hear the interaction amongst all of those who were present!

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

There's a wonderful blog post (in an excellent blog Seminarium) making the case for required biblical languages in seminary curricula.

I particularly like this paragraph:

But seminaries prepare ministers, not scholars…

Excellent point. In fact, I believe neglecting this point