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Adult Education Forum with Fred Putnam: Sunday, September 14 at 10am in the Dixon House Library
How do we read the Bible? Or, more pointedly, how do we read the Bible? Not “how ought …” or “how should …”, but how do we read it? One of the great mysteries of Christendom are the “unhappy divisions”, the lack of “godly union and concord” that afflict the Church and its witness–if we all agree that the Bible is, in some sense, the Word of God, why are we so divided on what it says, and what it means by what it says? We will use one of the most familiar passages in Scripture to open this conversation.
Fred Putnam is an ordained minister and retired seminary and university professor, who spent forty years trying to teach people how to read. Toward that end he taught Hebrew, Greek, biblical translation and interpretation, literature, poetry, philosophy, linguistics, &c. Born in New Hampshire, raised on farms in northern Connecticut, he has lived in PA since 1970; he and his wife, Emilie, live in Hatfield (PA), with and near their three daughters and eight grandchildren. Emilie’s ties to St. Paul’s go back nearly 100 years–it was her family’s home church, and several of her relatives are in the columbarium.
