ELCA News Blog
January 30, 2008
2008 ELCA Hein-Fry Lecture Series opens February 7
by Frank Imhoff, ELCA News Service
The relationship of the Lutheran Church with other Christian communities throughout the world will be the topic of the 2008 Hein-Fry Lecture Series of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). The Rev. Wanda Deifelt, associate professor of religion, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, and Dr. Lamin Sanneh, D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., will address the topic Feb. 7-April 23. Each speaker will lecture on four of the eight ELCA seminary campuses. They will discuss what Lutherans have to offer other Christians as well as what Lutherans can receive.
Lecture schedule:
+ Feb. 7, Deifelt, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, S.C. + Feb. 19, Deifelt, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia + Feb. 29, Deifelt, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Berkeley, Calif. + March 6, Sanneh, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Gettysburg, Pa. + March 13, Deifelt, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago + April 3, Sanneh, Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa + April 16, Sanneh, Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. + April 23, Sanneh, Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, Ohio
The Hein-Fry Lecture Series predates the ELCA. The endowed theological lecture series is coordinated by ELCA Vocation and Education in cooperation with the eight seminaries to foster original scholarship and enrich theological dialogue throughout the church. The series combines the Dr. Carl Christian Hein Memorial Seminary Lectures of the former American Lutheran Church and the Franklin Clark Fry Theological Lectures of the former Lutheran Church in America.
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