Grace Seminary Hosts Lectures On Reliability of Scripture
By DAVID GROUT
Media Relations, Grace College and Seminary
From 6:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, Grace Theological Seminary will be hosting, “The Word of God is Living and Active: Lectures on the Reliability of Scripture.” This free event, sponsored by Grace Theological Seminary, will be held in Westminster Hall on the Grace College campus.
Speakers Dr. Walter Kaiser, Jr. and Dr. John Davis will be answering the questions, “Is the Bible a reliable document for faith and practice?” and, “Is the Bible trustworthy when it comes to historical, scientific, and literary evidence?” Bringing answers to these questions from archaeological and textual perspectives, the two speakers will show how the Bible is indeed the inspired Word of God, and still useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.
Walter Christian Kaiser, Jr. is currently the president emeritus and distinguished professor of Old Testament and ethics at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Hamilton, Mass. He graduated from Wheaton College in 1958.
While pursuing graduate studies at Brandeis, Kaiser became professor and chairman of the Old Testament department at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He completed his Ph.D. dissertation in 1973. In 1980 Kaiser assumed the responsibilities of vice president and academic dean of Trinity. In the fall of 1993 he accepted an invitation from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary to serve as the first Colman M. Mockler Distinguished Professor of Old Testament. In 1997 Kaiser assumed the presidency of Gordon-Conwell while retaining the Mockler chair.
Dr. John Davis, Th.D., D.D., is president/professor emeritus at Grace College and Grace Theological Seminary in Winona Lake, where he has served as professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Grace Theological Seminary for 39 years. He also held the position of executive vice president for six years and president for seven years of both Grace College and Grace Theological Seminary.
He holds a Bachelors of Arts from Trinity College in Florida an M.Div. with honors, Th.M. and Th.D. from Grace Theological Seminary and a D.D. from Trinity College. He also completed graduate study at the Near East School of Archaeology in Jerusalem and post-doctoral study at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He has participated in 13 archaeological expeditions to Jordan and Israel as a senior staff member. He has also worked in field excavations in Indiana and Illinois, in addition to survey work on Temple Mount sites in San Salvador, Central America.