Summer Lecture: Edith Humphrey

Visiting professor Edith Humphrey will be delivering St Cyril’s public Summer Lecture on Saturday February 13, 2021. The lecture will be delivered as a Zoom webinar, with a nominal $5 registration fee. Click on the button below to register. Full details below:

St Cyril’s Summer Lecture 2021

Seeing the Saviour and Savouring the Scriptures with the Samaritan Woman

Professor Edith M. Humphrey

The encounter of Photini, the Samaritan Woman, with Jesus at the well, has been pondered for centuries by Orthodox theologians, and by all those who love the Scriptures.  St. Photini, as her name suggests, was “illumined” by the Saviour.  In our turn, we can be illumined by her privileged discussion with the Saviour, her role in bringing others to know Him, and the many layers of meaning that have been discerned in this luminous passage by those who have studied it.

About the Speaker: Prof. Edith M. Humphrey is the William F. Orr Professor of New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (2002-present). The author of numerous articles on the literary and rhetorical study of the Bible, she has also written seven books, including Further Up and Further In: Orthodox Conversations with C. S. Lewis on Scripture and Theology (SVS Press, 2017) and Scripture and Tradition: What the Bible Really Says (Baker Academic, 2013). An active member of the Orthodox Church (attending St. George’s Antiochian Church, Oakland), she retains strong ties with friends in various denominations, and is a well-known as a popular speaker at church retreats, ecumenical conferences, and seminary events.