Mark your calendar and plan to attend the Twenty-First Monsignor John M. Oesterreicher Memorial Lecture at Seton Hall University on Sunday, November 2, 2014.
Keynote speaker, Robert L. Wilken, Ph.D., will present, The Changing Relations between Christians and Jews. Dr. Wilken received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has taught at Gregorian University, Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Notre Dame, Fordham University and Lutheran Theological Seminary.
Throughout his long career as an educator specializing in early Christianity, Dr. Wilken has studied the relationship between Christians and their neighbors. His most recent work is The First Thousand Years. A Global History of Christianity (Yale University Press, 2013). As General Editor of the series, The Church’s Bible: Interpreted by Early Christian Commentators (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans), Dr. Wilken and his team have made treasures of the distant past available to scholars and serious students alike.
The memorial lecture is free and open to the public.
For additional information and to RSVP for the event, please contact me at lawrence.frizzell@shu.edu.
