Knowing Scripture Conference
November 19-20, 2005
Sponsored by All Saints Presbyterian Church, Akron PA
Location: The Refectory - Lancaster Theological Seminary (555 W. James St, Lancaster, PA)
Theme: “Understanding the Old Testament”
Saturday (Nov 19) beginning at 4:00 pm
• James Jordan – Knowing the Patriarchs (part 1) (4:10-5:00 pm)
• Peter Leithart – Knowing Kings (5:10-6:00 pm)
Dinner (6:00-6:45 pm)
• James Jordan – Knowing the Patriarchs (part 2) (6:45-7:30 pm)
• James Jordan/Peter Leithart - Q and A Session – (i.e., “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Anything that Has Ever Been Written in the Bible”) (7:30-8:00)
(All are welcome) Sunday (Nov. 20) Worship - 8:30-10:00 am at All Saints (meeting at Mt. Zion United Methodist Church, 105 N. 11th St., Akron, PA 17501)
• Sermon: Peter Leithart - “Lessons from Kings”
About the Speakers
James B. Jordan is the Directory of Biblical Horizons ministries, a theological think tank that publishes books, monographs, essays and taped lectures focused on Bible commentary, Biblical theology and liturgical theology. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia in comparative literature. During four years in the United States Air force, Jordan served as a military historian, and then attended Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Miss. He completed his studies with an M.A. and Th.M. at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. Since 1990, he has lived in Niceville, Fla. in 1993, the Central School of Religion awarded him a D. Litt. Degree for a dissertation on the dietary laws of Moses. The author of numerous monographs and several books, including, Through New Eyes: Developing a Biblical View of the World, Creation in Six Days, Primeval Saints: Studies in the Patriarchs of Genesis, The Sociology of the Church: Essays in Reconstruction, and Judges: A Practical and Theological Commentary.
Peter J. Leithart is Senior Fellow of Theology and Literature, New St. Andrews College (Moscow, ID) and serves as the organizing pastor of Trinity Reformed Church, a CREC congregation, in Moscow. Dr. Leithart received an A.B. in English and History from Hillsdale College in 1981, and a Master of Arts in Religion and a Master of Theology from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia in 1986 and 1987, respectively. In 1998 he received his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in England. He has authored Against Christianity, A Son to Me, A House for My Name, Blessed are the Hungry, Wise Words, Brightest Heaven of Invention, Heroes of the City of Man, and more. His articles have appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Birmingham News, First Things, Pro Ecclesia, Journal of Biblical Literature, Westminster Theological Journal, and other publications. Dr. Leithart and wife, Noel, have ten children.