Nov 13th Cohort Guest: A.K.M. Adam

The next Princeton Emergent Cohort will be at 8pm on November 13th. We'll be meeting at the Princeton T.G.I. Friday's in Market Fair Mall again. If you need directions, go here.

We are lucky to have a special guest with us, the Rev. A.K.M. Adam (usually known as AKMA). AKMA is a professor of New Testament at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary (an Episcopal seminary), and is currently a Member-in-Residence at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton for the year. AKMA blogs regularly at AKMA's Random Thoughts and writes extensively on postmodern biblical interpretation.

I was first introduced to AKMA through his little pink book, What is Postmodern Biblical Criticism?, and Postmodern Interpretations of the Bible. You'll really enjoy hearing from him. The morning after he is with us at the cohort, he and his wife will be flying out to San Diego for the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and he'll be giving a paper entitled, "Rene Magritte, Krazy Kat, and the Truth of Interpretation." I met with him last week at lunch and heard a brief synopsis of the paper, and was very interested. He'll be giving us a shortened version of his paper and his thoughts on postmodern interpretation and we'll be discussing what this means for the church, and how we can practice this different form of biblical interpretation.

In preparation for the cohort, please try and read through AKMA's article in Reading Scripture with the Church - "Poaching on Zion: Biblical Theology as Signifying Practice." Download it here.

If you know for sure you'll come, please RSVP by leaving a comment here on the blog or on our Facebook group so I know how big of a space to reserve. Peace!