VISITING SCHOLAR 2017

Where: Village Church Sanctuary Tickets: Friday & Saturday- $25; Friday only-$15; Saturday only-$15 Tickets are also available for purchase at the door until sessions begin. Click here for tickets

Child Care: A limited number of child care reservations are available with advance reservations. Please contact Pam at [email protected] or 913-671-2352 no later than Feb. 17, 2017.

Book Sales/Signing: Rainy Day Books will have books for sale including Dr. Gaventa's latest publication When In Romans. Book signing will take place after the Friday evening presentation.

More About Dr. Beverly Roberts Gaventa and the Program The 2017 Visiting Scholar Dr. Beverly Roberts Gaventa is a distinguished professor, author and scholar of New Testament studies. A leader among American biblical scholars with a reputation for helping people enlarge their understanding of scripture, Dr. Gaventa specializes in the Pauline epistles and in Luke-Acts. Dr. Gaventa will be “Reopening the Letters of Paul” including her upcoming publication, When in Romans: An Invitation to linger with the Gospel According to Paul.

“No one makes Romans come alive quite like Beverly Gaventa. [She offers] 3-D lenses to see Romans, the gospel, and the reality of God’s grace, power, and mystery in new and exciting ways.” -- John M. G. Barclay, Durham University

Dr. Gaventa is a distinguished professor of the New Testament at . She is also:

 Former Helen H.P. Manson professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis at Princeton Theological Seminary  Ph.D. from ; M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary and her B.A. from Philips University  Editor at Large for The Christian Century  2016 president of the Society of Biblical Literature  Author and editor of many books and articles including When in Romans: An Invitation to Linger with the Gospel According to Paul being published in November, 2016.

VISITING SCHOLAR The Visiting Scholar Program is committed to bringing well known Bible Scholars and Theologians to Village Church and the community ...

 to offer fresh and challenging new ideas  to deepen our understanding of the wisdom of the past  and to stimulate our hunger to know more fully the God we worship and rely upon.