At noon in Weatherly Hall at Brite, she will speak on “James, to the Latino/as that live in the United States." The conversation interfaces the issues that early Christian communities confronted as strangers and aliens in foreign lands in the pastoral Letter of James in the New Testament with the experience of otherness that many Latinos/as meet while living in a host country.
At 7 p.m. her talk, “And They Said Nothing to Anyone, For They Were Afraid” will be at the Kelly Center. This more formal lecture will reference the Gospel of Mark (16:8) and the historical-political conflict between the Roman Empire and the Jewish people in 66-70CE that gave rise to the writing of Mark 16:8. The title, therefore, makes a connection between how early Christians responded to this violent situation in early Christianity and how Christians today might begin to address similar concerns during war and armed conflicts.
Prof. Tamez is an internationally prominent Latin American biblical scholar and theologian. Born in Victoria, Mexico, she received her doctoral degree in theology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She is currently serving as a United Bible Society translation consultant. Affiliated with the Methodist tradition, she remains active as a theological advisor for the Latin American Council of Churches and as a teacher, having most recently taught at Vanderbilt Divinity School in the field of Latin American Liberation Theology and Harvard Divinity School in the area of World Christianity.
Her publications include The Bible of the Oppressed (1982); Against Machismo (1987); Women’s Rereading of the Bible (1988); The Scandalous Message of James (1989); Through Her Eyes: Women Theologians from Latin America (1989); and When the Horizons Close: Rereading Ecclesiastes (2000). In 2000, Prof. Tamez received the Hans-Sigrist Award from the University of Bern, Switzerland for her contribution in the field of contextual biblical hermeneutics.
The Crossing Borders Lecture was established in 2004. The lectures are presented under the auspices of the Center for Latino/a Church Studies at Brite Divinity School at TCU and are free and open to the public. No registration is required. For more information, visit www.brite.edu or call ext. 7575.