Summer Scholars Series

Sunday, August 29

9:30 am - 10:30 am

Lydia Hoyle

 

 

Lydia H. Hoyle serves as Associate Professor of Church History and Baptist Heritage at Campbell Divinity School, where she teaches courses in Christian history, American religion, and Baptist history. Her research interests and publications have included work in the areas of women and missions, children and mission education, Baptist history, and women in ministry. Currently, she is working on a study of Baptists and children. Hoyle is married to Rick Hoyle, a social psychologist at Duke University. They are the parents of three children: Matthew, Michael, and Jessica.

 

Sunday, September 5

9:30 am - 10:30 am

Thea Porter Young

 

 

Anathea Portier-Young serves as Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Duke Divinity School. Her scholarship has focused on theological themes of God’s mercy and justice, the alleviation of suffering, and traditions of violent and non-violent action. One of her books, entitled Theologies of Resistance: Jewish Responses to the Antiochian Persecution, examines the variety of ways Jews resisted the persecution by Antiochus Epiphanes. Another work, entitled The Theology of the Book of Daniel, is under contract with Cambridge Press. Portier-Young has also published articles on diverse scriptural texts, including Tobit, Joseph and Aseneth, and 1 Corinthians.

 

 

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