Date
November 12 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST
Location
Guest Scholar:
A Conversation with Dean Sujin Pak
Dean Sujin Pak, Professor of the History of Christianity, Boston University School of Theology
Dr. G. Sujin Pak is Dean of the Boston University School of Theology and Professor of the History of Christianity. Her scholarship and teaching focus on the early modern period, the Protestant Reformation, and the history of biblical interpretation. Pak is the author of The Judaizing Calvin: Sixteenth-Century Debates on the Messianic Psalms (Oxford University Press, 2010) and The Reformation of Prophecy: Early Modern Interpretations of the Prophet and Old Testament Prophecy (Oxford University Press, 2018), as well as several articles appearing in journals such as Church History, Renaissance & Reformation Review, Religions, and Calvin Theological Journal. As a teacher, Pak encourages her students to engage a variety of perspectives with attention to their social contexts. Pak serves as secretary of the ATS Board of Directors, president of AUMTS and Wesley Works, vice president of the Calvin Studies Society executive board, Reformation Area Editor for the Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, and member of the University Senate of the UMC.
THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
This society seeks to gather Cornell faculty and graduate students to discuss major themes in biblical and theological studies. Discussion aims to satisfy what Simone Weil once described as the basic need of the soul to consider “every sort of opinion, without the least restriction or reserve.” To this end, we invite dialogue that explores and even challenges historic orthodox beliefs as well as those ideas that reign in the contemporary church, academy, and culture.
Our dialogue is collegial and cordial without shying away from the hard questions scholars face in their life and work. Members of the group seek to nurture discussion by listening attentively to one another, guarding the length of our responses, and avoiding diversions to pet issues unrelated to the subject at hand. In short, we seek to embody a uniquely Christian form of intellectual hospitality that we can pass on to future generations.
