NTS welcomes Robert Jenson for Grider-Winget Lectures
Friday, November 2, 2007
Kansas City
In October, Nazarene Theological Seminary (NTS) hosted Robert Jenson, professor emeritus of religion at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. Jenson was invited by the NTS faculty to bring the Grider-Winget Lectures, which were established “to bring to the campus outstanding guest theologians.” NTS Lectures Committee Chair Andy Johnson notes, “Robert Jenson is most certainly an outstanding theologian; in fact, he is arguably the most outstanding American theologian of the past 30 years, and a churchman as well.”

The Jenson lectures were originally funded by Mabel Frandsen Winget and named in honor of J. Kenneth Grider and Wilfred Winget.

Jenson’s work in systematic theology is widely known for taking Scripture very seriously. However, over the past few years, he’s been involved in a variety of projects that have focused his attention on the nature and function of Scripture itself.

It was very appropriate that his lectures were on the subject of revisiting the inspiration of Scripture.

In addition to the honor of hosting Jenson on campus, NTS was also pleased to announce this most recent series of the Grider-Winget Lectures will be the first at NTS to be published. Baker Academic is partnering with NTS to publish the most recent, as well as forthcoming lectures in the series, as well as future series in the Earle Lectures. Once the published lectures are available, NTS will post purchase information on its web site at www.nts.edu.

Most lecture events at NTS are free and open to the public, and offer Continuing Education Units (CEU) credit for attendance. To learn more, log on to www.nts.edu/center-for-life-long-learning-events or contact the NTS Center for Lifelong Learning at 816.268.5413.
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