Events
2010 Hein-Fry Lecture
Date: March 11, 2010
Time: 10:00
The annual Hein-Fry Lecture series will be coming to Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary on Thursday, March 11 at 10:00 AM. This year's topic is entitled, "Hearing the Word: Teaching the Bible in the Parish (and Beyond)," and will be given by Dr. Margaret A. Krych. Following Dr. Krych's presentation, the Rev. Dr. James Thomas and Dr. Susan W. McArver will offer a faculty response. The public is welcome and invited to attend.
Margaret A. Krych is the Charles F. Norton professor emerita of Christian Education and Theology at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. She retired in 2008 after 31 years at the seminary where she was Associate Dean of Graduate Education (directing the 
Master of Sacred Theology, Doctor of Ministry, and Doctor of Philosophy degree programs), and where she taught courses at first professional and graduate level in Christian education and theology.
Her many publications include: Teaching the Gospel Today (Augsburg, 1987), Teaching About Lutheranism. (Augsburg Fortress, 1993), The Ministry of Children's Education: Foundations, Contexts, and Practices. (Fortress Press, 2004), and "The Bible and Those Difficult Topics," Parish Teacher, Vol. 19:4, December 1995, pp. 2-3.
She is an ordained minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and has served on several Boards and national committees of the ELCA. She is married to a retired ordained Lutheran minister and lives in a suburb of Philadelphia. They have two adult children.
The annual Hein-Fry Lecture Series identifies lively, pressing theological issues facing the church and offers free and open to the public lectures that stimulate intellectual inquiry and discussion of those issues throughout the church.
The goals of the endowed series are to:
o foster original scholarship,
o encourage broad dialogue throughout the church on a theological topic, and
o give seminary faculty, students, clergy, church leaders, and other interested persons access to leading theologians.
The Hein Fry Lecture Series grows out of prestigious traditions dating back nearly 40 years in the histories of the ELCA predecessor church bodies.
The Hein Seminary Lectures were held each year at the four seminaries of the American Lutheran Church. The Fry Lectures continue and expand on the series known as Knubel-Miller-Greever Lectures, which were held at various seminaries and other locations in the Lutheran Church in America.
The Hein-Fry Lecture Series is unique in that it addresses all the seminary communities within a major American denomination. This gives the Series great potential for engaging both the current theological leadership and a generation of ministerial candidates in discussion of a focused theological issue.
The series is coordinated by the Vocation and Education unit of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Lecture topics, speakers, and schedules are set by Hein-Fry Lecture Series Governing Committee. To learn more about the series visit http://www.elca.org/Growing-In-Faith/Education/Hein-Fry/About.aspx
Venue: Stavros Lecture Hall
Event Type: Guest Lecture
