What About Difficult Texts of Scripture?

Michiana Adventist Forum August 26

Michiana Adventist Forum presents "What Is to be Done with Difficult
Texts of Scripture?" with Dr. Herold Weiss, Emeritus Professor and
Former Chair, Catholic Department of Religious Studies, Saint Mary's
College, Notre Dame, Indiana, on Saturday Afternoon at 3:30 pm, August
26, 2017, in Chan Shun Hall, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI.

Dr. Herold Weiss is a native of Montevideo, Uruguay, who graduated from
Southern Missionary College (now Southern Adventist University), the SDA
Theological Seminary and Duke University. Since 1965 he has been a
resident of Berrien Springs while teaching at the SDA Theological
Seminary (1965-69), Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN (1969-01), and
enjoying a most satisfying retirement. During these years he had seven
books and 14 pear-reviewed articles published. Besides, many of his
articles have appeared in Adventist publications, and for three years he
was a monthly columnist at Spectrummagazine.org. He has two grown sons
and four grandchildren.

About the Topic
Dr. Weiss has provided several questions to introduce his topic:

     Is the Bible quite open to a plain reading?

     Why are some texts considered difficult?

     Is the interpretation of difficult texts required? Or, should they
be ignored?

     Is it required to interpret all texts consistently by one and the
same method?

     Is it possible to interpret texts without presuppositions?

     What does the Bible itself say about its origins?

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