Book Panel: Michael Peppard, How Catholics Encounter the Bible

This Event has Been Rescheduled to Tuesday, May 5 at 5:00 P.M.

Book Panel: Michael Peppard, How Catholics Encounter the Bible

Date: Tuesday, May 5
Time: 5:00 P.M.
Location: Stuart Hall, Room 6

Panelists: Dr. Michael Peppard, Fordham University, Dr. Mahri Leonard-Fleckman, Princeton Seminary, Dr. Mark Smith, Princeton Seminary

In How Catholics Encounter the Bible, award-winning biblical scholar and historian Michael Peppard explores the paradoxical role of the Bible for Catholics–a book central to their tradition, but not usually in the form of a book. Biblical ideas and beliefs are more often mediated through diverse modes of storytelling, artistic imagination, and ritual. Peppard begins from the conviction that the Bible, for Catholics, is not bound with leather book covers, but with the liturgical binding of the sign of the cross, the wrought-metal framing of a stained-glass window, or the lyrical structures of a God-haunted poet. He thus de-emphasizes the act of private, individual reading and instead analyzes distinctively Catholic approaches to the Bible through ritual, literature, the arts, and ethics.

Learn More about Dr. Peppard