25th Anniversary 

                                      


 

The Farstrup-Mortensen lectures are lovingly dedicated to the memory of two men, A. Ejnar Farstrup (1909-1984) and Enok Mortensen (1902-1984) whose vision and energy strongly influenced Danish-American church life.  Pastors and educators, they exemplified the Grundtvigian ideal of developing one's humanity, including the intellect, to its fullest and best extent in order to be receptive to the Word of God.

Who was the historical Jesus and how did he relate to the social and political issues of his time? What were his attitudes toward nature, the economy, war and peace? What does Jesus have to do with justice and politics today?

Thomas Sheehan (Ph.D., Fordham University) is Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of several books in philosophy and religion, including The First Coming (1986), a widely acclaimed and controversial account of Easter.

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James M. Robinson (Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary; D.Theol., University of Basel) is the Director Emeritus of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity and Professor of Religion Emeritus at Claremont Graduate University. He was honored as a Fulbright Scholar, American Council of Learned Societies Fellow and American Association of Theological Schools Fellow at the University of Heidelberg. The editor of The Sayings Gospel Q in Greek and English (2002), The Critical Edition of Q (2000), and author of Trajectories Through Early Christianity (1971, with Helmut Koester) and A New Quest of the Historical Jesus (1959), he is best known for his work on the Nag Hammadi Codices and as the General Editor of The Nag Hammadi Library in English (1977).