About this Event

Everyone is welcome! Monthly, during the fall and spring semesters, Catholic Pacific College hosts public lectures on theology, tradition, and our times. As a college, we promise our students to provide them with a formation to engage our times fearlessly and faithfully. And, we want to extend that opportunity to those in the Catholic community of the Archdiocese of Vancouver. 

Wednesday, September 28 | 7pm | CPC building - "Scripture as Incarnation" by Dr. David Henderson 

Description: Attitudes toward Scripture vary greatly from century to century. Yet there is perhaps no more marked difference than between the divergent ways in which contemporary and pre-modern readers approached the Bible. Unlike in past ages, readers of the Scriptures today find themselves burdened by skepticism, doubts as to whether the Bible adequately “proves” its sacred, inspired quality. As a result, we find it difficult to discern how this peculiar, ancient text still relates to the challenges, triumphs, and struggles of our lives. This lecture draws attention to one facet of this modern shift and the radically novel account of the “nature” of the Bible that rose to prominence in the 17th century. With reference to the pre-modern view, the lecture then contrasts the “loneliness” of modern exegesis with its ancient alternative, speaking to what it means to read the sacred texts as a “Church.” Here, an appreciation for the “sacramental” quality of the Sacred Scriptures encourages us to read the Bible as not just a story “about” the past events of redemption, but rather as being itself an “Incarnation,” a manifestation or extension of redemption in the very midst of our lives. 

Bio: Dr. David Henderson is a native of the Lower Mainland and received his B. A. in Christianity and Culture from TWU. He also holds a Masters of Theology from Regent College and a doctorate in Moral Theology from the Saint John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. David has authored essays on ecology and sexual ethics and is an assistant editor of the online review journal Humanum. In 2022, he contributed the article, "The Participation of Making," to the Humanum Online Review (see link below). Having converted to Catholicism in 2013, David brings an interest for theological aesthetics, the conflict between ancients and moderns, and the ongoing reception of the Second Vatican Council. He currently lives with his wife and two children in Langley, BC. 

"The Participation of Making": https://humanumreview.com/articles/the-participation-of-making