Date: April 29, 2021
Tonight is the last lecture in this year’s Costan Lectures. Dr. Katherine Sonderegger is slowly and carefully making her case. She wants to defend the language of “sacrifice.” Grounded in the Hebrew Bible, she carefully explicates the claim that the death of the Eternal Word should be interpreted through the lens of sacrifice. Careful in her exegesis, aware of the complexities, Dr. Sonderegger is making her case.
The first Costan Lecture had almost 2000 views. Interest in her argument is considerable. People have viewed the recording from around the world. Scholars and students of theology want to see how the next volume of her Systematic Theology will unfold.
I have often wondered what it was like to watch, say, Reinhold Niebuhr deliver the “The Nature and Destiny of Man” as the Gifford Lectures. Over the last two nights, I think I now have a sense of what it is like: we are watching a remarkable project unfold. It is an honor to do so.
The Very Rev. Ian S. Markham, Ph.D.
Dean and President