{"id":4459,"date":"2007-01-12T15:02:01","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T19:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=4459"},"modified":"2024-07-01T16:36:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T20:36:35","slug":"harvard-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2007\/01\/12\/harvard-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard professor discusses the shaping of Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Karen Leigh King, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Harvard Divinity School, will give a presentation titled The Shaping of Christianity: Gospel Discoveries from the Egyptian Desert<\/em> at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 17, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave., at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College. The public is invited to attend the 2006-07 Zerby Lecture in Contemporary Religious Thought, sponsored by the chaplain’s office, free of charge. For more information, call 207-786-8272.<\/p>\n

Trained in comparative religions and historical studies, King<\/a> teaches and researches the history of Christianity and women’s studies. King’s books include Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity<\/em>, The Secret Revelation of John<\/em>, The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle<\/em>, Revelation of the Unknowable God” and “What is Gnosticism?<\/em> King has edited Images of the Feminine in the Gnosticism<\/em> and Women and Goddess Traditions in Antiquity and Today<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Appointed to Harvard Divinity school in 1998 and Winn Professor since 2003, King has received many research grants and awards for excellence in teaching and research; among them are grants from the Ford Foundation<\/a>, the National Endowment for the Humanities<\/a>, Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst and the Graves Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The annual Zerby lecture honors the late Rayborn L. Zerby of Lewiston, professor emeritus of religion and dean of the faculty at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. Each year, the program brings to campus leading commentators on contemporary religious thought. Previous Zerby lecturers have included Holocaust chronicler Elie Wiesel and Harvard University theologian Peter J. Gomes, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ class of 1965.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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