Vanderbilt University Divinity School announces the 36th annual A N T O I N E T T E B R O W N L E C T U R E
"Texts We Love to Hate: Dealing with the Hard Places in Tradition," to be delivered by Judith Plaskow, Ph.D., Professor of Religious Studies, Manhattan College
As the thirty-sixth Antoinette Brown lecturer, Professor Plaskow will deliver "Texts We Love to Hate: Dealing with the Hard Places in Tradition."
Anyone who is engaged with a scriptural tradition at some point encounters texts that are disturbing and morally unacceptable by contemporary standards. What we do when we come across such texts? How should we read them? What does it mean to be in relationship to and to value a book that contains so much that's deeply troubling?