James J. Gallagher Memorial Lecture: Musa W. Dube, Ph.D.: Heat Waves, Frequent and Extreme Storms: Reading the Fourth Gospel in the Context of Climate Change

Thur., April 4, 7 p.m., Klein Lecture Hall (CFA 235)

Global warming and its impact have become evident to the citizens of Mother Earth. Extreme weather events, ranging from heat waves to frequent and extreme land and sea storms, impress upon the global community that all is not well on Mother Earth. The Wretched of the Earth are being pushed to the extreme ends in their subalternity. Home has become strange, dangerous, and uncomfortable, underlining the need for communal and global introspection on the health of Mother Earth and the ethics of living in and with the whole Earth Community. Scientific research and data widely attest that human beings are at the center of contemporary environmental crisis. How does the context of climate change and environmental crisis impact biblical interpretation? How should interpreters of the biblical text read in solidarity with Mother Earth? What are the ethics of reading the biblical text within and through the heat waves and extreme weather events? This lecture will explore these questions by reading the Fourth Gospel (John) within the context of climate change and global warming. Prof Musa W. Dube, the William Ragsdale Cannon Distinguished Prof of the New Testament, is a Humboldtian awardee (2011) and winner of the Gutenberg Teaching Award (2017) biblical scholar based at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. She is the current continental Coordinator of Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians (2019-2024); President of the Society Biblical Literature (2023) and Professor Extraordinaire in the Institute of Gender, UNISA.

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