The Challenge of Decolonization for New Testament Studies
14.00 (UK Time)
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This Lecture is taking place in person in St. Philips & St James Church, Woodstock Road, Oxford. You can also join online — using this link.
Contemporary calls for decolonization in academic fields raise challenges for New Testament studies, which arose as a modern scholarly discipline in western Europe at a time concurrent with the main phase of European colonialism. How has this shaped the discipline, and in what ways might it now respond to the challenge of decolonization? Looking both at the history of the discipline and at some of the global voices and perspectives that have long been marginalized within it, this lecture will seek to outline some of the ways in which the New Testament studies might be reshaped for the future as a truly global and decolonized discipline.
Speaker
Professor David Horrell
Emeritus Professor of New Testament Studies
University of Exeter
David Horrell is recently Emeritus Professor of New Testament studies at the University of Exeter, where he has taught since 1995. He is currently working on a project on decolonizing New Testament studies, following a period of research funded by the Leverhulme Trust. His publications have covered many areas within the field of New Testament studies, including work on Paul, 1 Peter, ecological hermeneutics, and ethnicity, race, and early Christian identity.