Duke Divinity at Westmont College

Wednesday, October 9, 2019Pacific Daylight Time UTC -07:00

Westmont College
955 La Paz Rd
Santa Barbara, CA 93108
United States

Dr. Ross Wagner, Associate Professor of New Testament and director of the Th.D. program, and Rev. Todd Maberry, Senior Director of Admissions, Recruitment, and Student Finance from Duke Divinity School will be visiting Westmont College. Dr. Wagner will present the lecture below and there will be a dinner afterwards at 6 P.M. Register below or email tmaberry@div.duke.edu to connect and learn more details.

The Impossibility of Discipleship: Blindness and Sight in Isaiah and Mark

In Mark’s Gospel, Jesus calls his disciples to take up the cross and follow; betrayed and abandoned by the Twelve, he dies forsaken and alone. How does one make sense of the failure of Jesus’ disciples - then and now - to follow their teacher in the way of the cross? For Mark, it is the prophecies of Isaiah that provide the interpretive key for making sense of discipleship failure even as they point us toward its only remedy.

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