Presented by visiting theologian Professor Timothy Wengert on Saturday, January 16, from 2:00-4:00 p.m. in the council room.Presented by visiting theologian Professor Timothy Wengert on Saturday, January 16, from 2:00-4:00 p.m. in the council room.
Lutherans have had a distinctive approach to the Bible, an approach that challenges various uses of scripture available in the “Bible Belt” in the last century. As a historian of the Reformation and specialist in Luther and Melanchthon, Professor Wengert will more clearly delineate the historically Lutheran use of the Bible in Christiain worship, prayer, study, thought and action.
Dr. Wengert served as theologian-in-residence for the Melanchthon Institute in the fall of 2004. Timothy Wengert is professor of Reformation History at Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. He co-edited the new English edition of The Book of Concord issued in 2000 (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Publishers). His translation of Luther’s Small Catechism from that volume is used widely throughout the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Dr. Wengert studied at the University of Michigan (BA 1972, MA 1973), Luther Seminary (M.Div 1977) and Duke University (PhD 1984). He served as a parish pastor in Wisconsin seven years. He is married to Pastor Ingrid Fath Wengert.