WHO:
Azusa Pacific University's Center for Research in Science (CRIS) hosts Matt Rindge, Ph.D., Professor of Religion, Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington.
WHAT:
Lecture: "Violent Love: Constructing Contemporary Ethics with Jesus, Jack Bauer, and Dexter"
In this lecture, Rindge will answer the ethical questions about violence and its potential as a force for good permeate contemporary popular culture in America. He will discuss how films, like Kill Bill, A History of Violence, and The Dark Knight, and television shows, like 24 and Dexter, raise pointed questions about the costs and benefits of using violence as a possible instrument of love or justice. He will also talk about what contexts, if any, violence can be a force for the common good, in correlation with similar questions raised in the Bible about the potentially constructive role of violence. Finally, Rindge will discuss what can Americans in a post 9/11 world marked by the war on terror learn from Jesus, Moses, and popular culture about the potential costs and benefits of using violence as a force for justice.
WHEN:
Wed., March 24, 6:30 p.m.
WHERE:
Perry Lecture Hall, Segerstrom Science Center, West Campus
675 E. Foothill Blvd., Azusa, Calif.
WHY:
CRIS invites lecturers to discuss current issues of science and theology in order to educate students and the community on the evidence for God's handiwork in the universe and to equip Christians to defend their faith through science. For a complete schedule of upcoming guests and lectures, visit www.apu.edu/cris/.
FACTS:
Rindge earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California at Santa Barbara, a graduate degree from Notre Dame University, his Masters in divinity from Fuller Theological Seminary, and his Ph.D. from Emory University. He has taught at Emory University, Candler School of Theology, Columbia Theological Seminary, Azusa Pacific University, and in Asia and Latin America. At Gonzaga he teaches courses both in New Testament and in the intersection of Bible, Ethics, and Popular Culture.
He is an active participant in the Society of Biblical Literature, he has presented several papers on Parables and Wealth in Luke, and Bible and Film, and is also on the Steering Committee for the Bible and American Popular Culture section. He is currently co-editing The History of Biblical Interpretation to 1835: A Reader.
For more information, contact the CRIS office at (626) 815-6480 or cris@apu.edu.
