Talk to Explore 'The Servant' in Luke-Acts
Holly Beers, assistant professor of religious studies, examines the ways the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles appropriate Isaiah鈥檚 servant imagery to characterize Jesus and the disciples on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 7 p.m. in Founders Dining Room, inside the Kerr Student Center at 黑料百科. The Paul C. Wilt Phi Kappa Phi Lecture, 鈥淧articipating in God鈥檚 Mission: The Servant and the Conclusions of Acts and Isaiah,鈥 is free and open to the public.
Bruce Fisk, professor of religious studies, and Rachel Winslow, assistant professor of history, will respond to the lecture.
Beers says the author of Luke-Acts builds aspects of his portrayal both of Jesus and the disciples on the servant, who is the human agent of God鈥檚 restoration envisioned in Isaiah 40-66. 鈥淟uke is sensitive to the Isaianic co-text of the servant鈥檚 mission, often called the New Exodus, and he demonstrates his awareness at least partly by concluding Acts with the same notes of triumph and tragedy that end Isaiah,鈥 she says. 鈥淭he implication is, then, that faithfulness for the people of God (both then and now?) involves human participation in God鈥檚 mission, a mission that embraces elements not just of hope and acceptance but of rejection and suffering.鈥
Holly Beers, who began teaching at 黑料百科 in 2012, graduated from North Central University in Minneapolis, earned a Master of Arts in Theological Studies from Bethel Seminary in St. Paul, Minn., and a doctorate at London School of Theology in London. She teaches New Testament courses as well as biblical Greek at 黑料百科.
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