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"The Devil You Say....", an address by David Buttrick
Oberlin
College Vesper Service Sunday, February 17
4 P.M.
Fairchild Chapel in Bosworth Hall,
50 W. Lorain St.
Lecture:
"The Return of the Stranger: Teaching Jesus"
Monday, February 18
4:30 P.M.
Wilder 101,
135 W. Lorain St.
For more information, contact the Office of Chaplains at 440 775 8102
HOMILETIC EXPERT DAVID BUTTRICK TO SPEAK AT OBERLIN COLLEGE FEBRUARY 17
FEBRUARY 8, 2002-- The Reverend David G. Buttrick, a national leader in the field of homiletics, will be the featured speaker Sunday, February 17 at the first vesper service of second semester at Oberlin College. The title of his sermon is "The Devil You Say....".
The service, which is free and open to the public, will be held at 4 P.M. in Bosworth Hall's Fairchild Chapel. After the service, a reception will be held in Room 115 of Wilder Hall,135 W. Lorain St.
Buttrick also will give a lecture titled "The Return of the Stranger: Teaching Jesus" at 4:30 P.M. Monday, February 18 in Wilder 101.
The author of Speaking Parables and the forthcoming Speaking Jesus, Rev. Buttrick is Drucillia Moore Buffington Professor of Homiletics and Liturgies Emeritus in the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University, where he has served on the faculty since 1982.
Rev. Buttrick has also served on the faculties of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and St. Meinrad School of Theology and the seminaries of St Francis and SS. Cyril & Methodius in Pennsylvania, Southern Baptist and Lexington Theological in Kentucky and the Iliff School of Theology in Colorado.
A much in demand speaker, Rev. Buttrick has published in numerous journals and magazines. He has written or edited some 14 books, including his landmark work, Homiletic in 1987 and was chief writer and editor for the Presbyterians Worshipbook (1970) as well as a member of the Catholic Bishops' Committee on the Homily.
His accomplishments are detailed in Who's Who in Religion, Who's Who in Education, Who's Who in America, and the Dictionary of International Biography. A festschrift "In Honor of David Buttrick," Preaching as a Theological Task, edited by Thomas Long and Edward Farley, was published by Westminster/John Knox) in 1996.
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