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Christoph Markschies, a scholar of ancient Christianity who leads two prestigious scholarly organizations in Germany, will give Yale Divinity School’s Bainton Lecture on Monday, March 4. The lecture will take place at 5:30 p.m. ET in Niebuhr Hall.
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The lecture, titled “Apocalyptic Time–Time in (Ancient Christian) Apocalyptic Literature” deals with the following:
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Curiously, while the question of how apocalyptic literature dealt with fundamental questions of the conception of “time” has found many answers, some aspects have rarely or never been addressed. These include, for example, the question of whether a linear concept of time dominates in the apocalypses. In the lecture, some of these neglected fundamental questions will be dealt with, using examples from ancient Christian apocalypses. It will also address the question of what is meant by “apocalyptic times” with regard to both the past and the immediate present.
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Dr. Christoph Markschies is Professor of Ancient Christianity at Humboldt University in Berlin, which he led as President from 2006 to 2010. He currently serves as President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Union of German Academies of Science and Humanities.
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Christoph Markschies has received numerous prizes and honors, including the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and the Federal Cross of Merit (1st class) from German Federal President Frank Walter Steinmeier. He is a member of several distinguished academies in Germany and abroad and serves on various advisory boards of scientific institutions. He has published extensively and contributes to scientific and public discussions as a columnist.
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Markschies studied theology, classics, and philosophy at the Universities of Marburg, Munich, Tübingen, and in Jerusalem, earning his Ph.D. from Tübingen in 1991.
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Inaugurated in 1988, the Roland Bainton Lectureship represents the two foci of the late Divinity School professor’s life and career: church history and the church’s witness to peace and justice.