{"id":159,"date":"2013-09-29T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/?p=159"},"modified":"2016-12-02T15:16:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T20:16:29","slug":"vds-events-the-cole-lectures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/2013\/09\/vds-events-the-cole-lectures\/","title":{"rendered":"VDS Events: The Cole Lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philanthropist Edmund W. Cole, president of Nashville &amp; Chattanooga Railroad and treasurer of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust, endowed the annual Cole Lecture Series in 1892 \u201cfor the defense and advocacy of the Christian religion.\u201d Cole\u2019s gift provided for the first sustained lectureship in the history of Vanderbilt University.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1109\/2013\/09\/ColeLecture1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-164 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1109\/2013\/09\/ColeLecture1-273x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"164\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1109\/2013\/09\/ColeLecture1-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1109\/2013\/09\/ColeLecture1.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 164px) 100vw, 164px\" \/><\/a>Vanderbilt University Divinity School is pleased to welcome Elaine Pagels as the 2013 Cole lecturer. The\u00a0Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion\u00a0at Princeton University, Pagels\u00a0joined the Princeton faculty in 1982. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship,\u00a0Pagels is the author of <\/span><em>The Gnostic Gospels, The Origin of Satan<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 13px\">, and <\/span><em>Adam, Eve and the Serpent<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 13px\">. She has published widely on Gnosticism and early Christianity\u00a0and continues to pursue her research interests in late antiquity. Pagels\u2019s most recent books include <\/span><em>Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 13px\"> and <\/span><em>Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 13px\">, coauthored with Karen King of Harvard Divinity School. Her\u00a0current\u00a0book, <\/span><em>Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation<\/em><strong>, <\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px\">explores the New Testament Book of Revelation and other Jewish, Christian, and Pagan books of Revelation written around the same time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px\">As this year\u2019s Cole lecturer,\u00a0Pagels\u00a0will\u00a0deliver two presentations based upon her scholarship of ancient texts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, October 3, 2013,\u00a07:00\u00a0p.m.<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px\">Art, Music, and Politics in the Book of Revelation<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px\">The first lecture will explore questions about the author and the circumstances under which the Book of Revelation was written and will examine the astonishing range of ways Christians have read the text from the seventh century to the present.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, October\u00a04,\u00a02013,\u00a010:00\u00a0a.m.<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px\">New Reflections on Gospel Traditions: The Gospel\u00a0of John and\u00a0The\u00a0Gospel of Thomas<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px\"> Previous Cole Lectures have been delivered by such distinguished scholars as Harry Emerson Fosdick, George Buttrick, Rudolph Bultmann, H. Richard Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, Walter Brueggemann, Elisabeth Sch\u00fcssler Fiorenza, James Barr, Gustavo Gutierrez, James Cone, Edward Farley, Don Beisswenger, Gene TeSelle, David Buttrick, Jim Wallis, Lamin Sanneh, Mark Noll, Randall Balmer, James Lawson, John O\u2019Malley, R. Scott Appleby, and Anthea Butler.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click <a title=\"Divinity school calendar\" href=\"http:\/\/divinity.vanderbilt.edu\/news\/calendar.php\">here<\/a> to learn about more Vanderbilt Divinity School events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philanthropist Edmund W. Cole, president of Nashville &amp; Chattanooga Railroad and treasurer of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust, endowed the annual Cole Lecture Series in 1892 \u201cfor the defense and advocacy of the Christian religion.\u201d Cole\u2019s gift provided for the first sustained lectureship in the history of Vanderbilt University. 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