Dr Edith Humphrey to speak at Acadia University
Renowned New Testament scholar and theologian Dr Edith M. Humphrey will be the featured speaker for the 2010 Hayward Lectures at Acadia University. She will deliver a series of three public lectures on “What You Have Received: What the Bible Really Says About Tradition”. The lecture schedule is as follows:
Monday, 18 October
The Problem with Tradition
Tuesday, 19 October
Lost In Translation?
Wednesday, 20 October
Tradition, the Bible and the Personal
All lectures will take place at 7:30pm in the K.C. Irving Auditorium, Acadia University, Wolfville.
Dr Humphrey is William F. Orr Professor of New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Before coming to Pittsburgh, she served as Professor of Scripture and Dean at Augustine College, Ottawa. She previously taught at many universities and colleges, including Regent College, Vancouver.
As a member of the Anglican Church of Canada for almost 25 years, Dr Humphrey spoke persuasively in support of traditional Anglican beliefs in such current controversial issues as worship and human sexuality. She served on the Primate’s Theological Commission from 1996 to 2004.
In June 2009, after 13 years of study and discernment, Dr Humphrey was chrismated and received into the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Dr Humphrey’s website has much information about her life and work, including her journey to Orthodoxy.
Acadia’s brochure outlining the 2010 Hayward Lectures and related events can be downloaded here as a pdf document.