BIBLE BRUNCH
What Does the Bible Have to Say About Family?
Presented by: Donald Senior, C.P., President of Catholic Theological Union
Saturday, November 6, 2010, 9:00am-12:00 noon
We invite you to join us for the annual Holy Family Bible Brunch.
While family life was very important for the biblical peoples, in many respects their experience of family in the clan culture of Ancient Israel and in the New Testament times was very different from our family life today. To complicate matters further, there are some sayings of Jesus that seem to put distance between himself and his own family. Yet the family values of love, respect, forgive4ness and enduring bonds are at the heart of the message of Jesus. Later New testament writing see the love of husband and wife and the experience of family as an image of Christ's love for his people. This presentation will explore the biblical vision of the family as a way of reflecting on family life today.
To register contact Dee at 847-907-3441, dselesky@holyfamilyparish.org or Jan Wood, 847-705-7919, jan@wood5.com.
Biographical Sketch: Donald Senior, C. P.
Rev. Donald Senior, C.P., is President of Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, the largest Roman Catholic graduate school of ministry in the United States, where he is also a member of the faculty as Professor of New Testament. Born in Philadelphia in 1940, he is a member of the Passionist Congregation and was ordained a priest in 1967. He received his doctorate in New Testament studies from the University of Louvain in Belgium in 1972. He is a frequent lecturer and speaker throughout the United States and abroad, and serves on numerous boards and commissions.
Fr. Senior has published extensively on biblical topics, with numerous books and articles for both scholarly and popular audiences. He is the general editor of the acclaimed Catholic Study Bible (Oxford University Press, rev. ed. 2006) and editor in chief of the journal, The Bible Today. Among his recent works are a four volume series of studies of the Passion narratives (The Liturgical Press), a new and expanded edition of his widely read, Jesus A Gospel Portrait (Paulist Press, rev. ed., 1994), What Are They Saying About Matthew? (Paulist Press, rev. ed., 1996), The Gospel of Matthew (1997) in Abingdon Press’ Interpreting Biblical Texts series, a full length commentary on the Gospel of Matthew in Abingdon’s New Testament Commentary series (Matthew. Abingdon Press, 1998), and the volume on I Peter in the Sacra Pagina series (Liturgical Press, 2003). He is co-editor of The New Interpreters Study Bible (Abingdon Press, 2003).
He was the recipient of the National Catholic Library Association’s 1994 Jerome Award for Outstanding Scholarship and was given the 1996 National Catholic Education Association’s Bishop Loras Lane Award for outstanding service to Catholic education. He is past President of the Catholic Biblical Association of America (1997-1998) and of the Association of Theological Schools of the United States and Canada. In 2001, Pope John Paul II appointed him as a member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission and he was reappointed in 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI.
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