Show Notes:
- Lois Farag’s essay, “Desert Spirituality in Modern Times: How Monastics Teach Us to Read Scripture“
1.44: Desert Spirituality in Modern Times
Lois Farag explores how the ancient Christian monastics read the Bible, and what we can pull forward from their practice into the 21st century.
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Today's Episode Hosted By
Eric Barreto
Cameron Howard
Joined by
Lois Farag
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Lois Farag
Lois Farag joined Luther Seminary in 2005 as assistant professor of Early Church History. She earned her M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School in 1997 and her doctorate from the Catholic University of America in 2003. A monastic of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Farag authored St. Cyril of Alexandria, A New Testament Exegete: His Commentary on the Gospel of John and Balance of the Heart, Desert Spirituality of Twenty-First Century Christians. Farag is a member of the North American Patristics Society, American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature, and The Models of Piety in Late Antiquity Research Group.
Hosted By:
Eric Barreto
Eric D. Barreto is the Weyerhaeuser Associate Professor of New Testament. He holds a B.A. in religion from Oklahoma Baptist University, an M.Div. from Princeton Seminary, and a Ph.D. in New Testament from Emory University.
Prior to coming to Princeton Seminary, he served as associate professor of New Testament at Luther Seminary, and also taught as an adjunct professor at the Candler School of Theology and McAfee School of Theology.
Cameron B.R. Howard
Cameron B. R. Howard, associate professor of Old Testament, joined the Luther Seminary faculty in July 2012. She received her Ph.D. from Emory University in 2010. She also holds a Master of Theological Studies degree from the Candler School of Theology at Emory and a Master of Theology degree from Columbia Theological Seminary. Howard is the author of The Old Testament for A Complex World: How the Bible's Dynamic Testimony Points to New Life for the Church (Baker Academic, 2021). Committed to making academic biblical scholarship accessible and relevant to clergy and laypeople, Howard has written over two dozen essays for WorkingPreacher.org and is a contributor to BibleOdyssey.org. She is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA).