Lecture: “Discerning the Dawn: Knowing God in the New Creation” from N.T. Wright

A LECTURE_LABEL from the series "LTL Lecture Series Academic Year 2016-2017." Traditional “natural theology” tries to start from the observed world and reason its way to the Christian God, but centuries of natural and social disaster have undermined this optimism. In this lecture, N.T. Wright discusses how the Christian gospel

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Lecture: “Don’t Retire; Refire!” from Don Finto

A LECTURE_LABEL from the series "LTL Lecture Series Academic Year 2020-2021." Don’t Retire; Refire! Retirement in America is usually seen as the well-earned reward for hard work and good planning, or at least frugal living. Talk of travel, a bucket list and golf often accompany plans for kicking back to

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Lecture: “Interpreting the Bible in Art: Rembrandt’s Bathsheba” from David Jeffrey

A LECTURE_LABEL from the series "LTL Lecture Series Academic Year 2017-2018." The tradition of biblical commentary in the West is venerable and rich. From the outset, theology was essentially commentary on the biblical text exclusively. What is less well recognized today is the extensive role both literary and visual artists

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Lecture: “Problems and Solutions in Translating the Psalms” from Andrew Macintosh

A LECTURE_LABEL from the series "LTL Lecture Series Academic Year 2017-2018." In the 1970's Andrew Macintosh was asked to help create a new version of the Psalms in quality modern English. This endeavor turned out to require not only knowledge of the original Hebrew of the Psalms, but of its

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