Schedule
Lecture 1 (11:00am-12:00pm) "Transfiguring the Letter: Light Resplendent"
Lunch (12:00pm-1:00pm): on campus and included in the registration fee
Lecture 2 (1:00pm-2:00pm) "Transfiguring the Reader: Light Reflected"
Speaker
Dr. Kevin Vanhoozer, Research Professor of Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, will deliver the annual lecture series.
Dr. Vanhoozer is the author of twelve books, including The Drama of Doctrine, Faith Speaking Understanding: Performing the Drama of Doctrine, and Biblical Authority after Babel: Retrieving the Solas in the Spirit of Mere Protestant Christianity – all three named Christianity Today Theology Books of the Year (2006, 2015, 2017). His most recent book is the one from which his lectures are drawn: Mere Christian Hermeneutics: Transfiguring What it Means to Read the Bible Theologically. He has served on the editorial board of the International Journal of Systematic Theology, Journal for Theological Interpretation, and Pro Ecclesia and was the North American Consultant for the second edition of the New Dictionary of Theology (IVP).
In 1999 he was featured on the cover of Christianity Today, and in 2015 was the subject of a feature article by Wesley Hill. He has lectured in several countries on four continents. In 2017, he was on the steering committee that drafted A Reforming Catholic Confession, a document that celebrated the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. He is the theological mentor of the Augustine Fellowship, one of four groups associated with the Center for Pastor Theologians, and a member of the Theology Working Group that produced a statement on hermeneutics for the Lausanne 2024 Seoul Statement.
He is married and has two adult daughters, one son-in-law, and sixteen doctoral students. He is an amateur classical pianist and serious reader, and finds that music and literature help him integrate academic theology, imagination, and spiritual formation.
About the Harold O. J. Brown Lecture Series
Dr. Harold O.J. Brown served as John R. Richardson Professor of Theology and Philosophy at the Charlotte campus of Reformed Theological Seminary from 1998 to 2007. Dr. Brown was a leading evangelical voice in the pro-life movement immediately after Roe v. Wade, co-founding the Christian Action Council (now Care Net) with former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. Dr. Brown was a distinguished evangelical scholar during his professional life, writing books, essays and articles in the areas of culture, science, theology and politics. His books include: The Protest of a Troubled Protestant (1969), Christianity and the Class Struggle (1970), Death Before Birth (1977), The Reconstruction of the Republic (1977), Heresies: The Image of Christ in the Mirror of Heresy and Orthodoxy from the Apostles to the Present (1984), and Sensate Culture (1996). Dr. Brown was much beloved by his colleagues and students at RTS who honor the memory of their dear friend with an annual lecture series at RTS Charlotte. Click here to learn about prior lectures.
