Symposium-Ellen Davis

Education Symposium: Living Our Faith
At Home, at Work and in the Community

Holy Fire:
Igniting the Scriptural Imagination

Featuring
Dr. Ellen F. Davis
February 24-26, 2012

The Symposium lectures will explore the Book of Exodus as the master narrative of the Old Testament that informs faithful responses to urgent ethical issues in our own time and culture. She will review how this narrative touches on issues of gender, power relations, evil and divine violence, ethnicity and "the other," creation and our relationship with God.

Ellen F. Davis is Amos Ragan Kearns Distinguished Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke University Divinity School. The author of eight books and many articles, her research interests focus on how biblical interpretation bears on the life of faith communities and their response to urgent public issues, particularly the environmental crisis and interfaith relations. Her most recent book, Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible, integrates biblical studies with a critique of industrial agriculture and food production. A lay Episcopalian, she is active as a theological consultant within the Anglican Communion, and since 2004 has worked with the Episcopal Church of Sudan to develop theological education, community health, and sustainable agriculture. She is currently working on a book on prophecy and the prophetic in the Bible and society.

Reservations are required.
$25 Dinner, Friday and Saturday lectures
$15 Dinner and Friday lecture only
$10 Friday lecture only, no dinner
$10 Saturday lecture only
$5 Student rate, Friday and Saturday lectures only, no dinner.