On March 20 and 21, the WSA will welcome Dr. Darian Lockett as the 2018 Spring Convocation Lecturer. Dr. Lockett (PhD, University of St. Andrews) is an Associate Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University and serves as a ruling elder at Trinity Presbyterian Church.
“Reading Scripture as Canon: Theological and Historical Commitments” The concept of canon is crucial for understanding the relationship between theology and history in biblical interpretation. Avoiding reductionistic historical reconstruction on one hand and community centered theological appropriation untethered from the historical events to which Scripture points on the other, the idea of canon is the connecting point which holds the two necessary hermeneutical elements of history and theology together.
“The Difference Canon Makes: diaspora as Canonical Context for James and 1 Peter” Acknowledging that the concept/category of canon is the foundation for the dialect between theology and history within biblical interpretation, this paper offers an illustration of the difference canon makes in reading James and 1 Peter together within their context as Christian Scripture. In these letters both Jewish and Gentile readers are addressed as a “diaspora” people. This term not only marks out the eschatological people of God but also suggests a canonical link between the two texts.
