Progressive Christianity Forum - Vicky Balabanski - THE WONDER OF THE SCRIPTURES TO BE REINTERPRETED

Reverend Professor Vicky Balabanski will speak on The wonder of the scriptures to be re-interpreted.

Surely everything that could be said about the Bible has already been said?

Not at all! Using new methods and perspectives, there is ‘yet more light’ to be found!

This evening’s presentation will introduce two tricky New Testament passages, showing how they can be reinterpreted using new methods and perspectives

Vicky Balabanski is a New Testament scholar at the University of Divinity and the EO/Principal of Uniting College for Leadership and Theology in Adelaide. Vicky is an ordained Uniting Church Minister of the Word. Her expertise is in the Synoptic Gospels, John's Gospel, Colossians, Receptive Ecumenism and Ecological Hermeneutics. She is the General Editor of the Earth Bible series, collaborating with Professor Gerald West in South Africa which emphases interpreting Scripture in harmony with the Earth, the interconnected web of life. Her Earth Bible commentary, "Colossians: An Eco-Stoic reading" (Bloomsbury T & T Clark 2020), draws on Stoic philosophy to enrich ecological interpretations. Vicky is a member of the international Society of Biblical Studies in 2017 and has been a keynote speaker for World Diakonia conferences, the UCA President’s Conference in Fiji, 2019, and the Christian Conference of Asia, Kerala (2023).