"Choose you this day": But if free choice, why so many bad choices?

The Murdoch University Theology Program invites you to a series of lectures from this year’s Murdoch University International Theologian Professor Carol Newsom

“Choose you this day”: But if free choice, why so many bad choices?

The dominant perspective on moral agency in biblical and early Jewish thought is that of free choice. Making good choices, however, does not come naturally. This lecture explores what Israelite and early Jewish moral psychology saw as the impediments to virtuous moral agency.

Professor Carol Newsom is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Old Testament and Director of the Graduate Division of Religion at the Candler School of Theology at Emory
University in Atlanta, USA.
She has a Masters in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and a PhD from Harvard University. In addition, she has three honorary doctorates from Birmington-Southern College, Virginia Theological Seminary and the University of Copenhagen. Additionally,Professor Newsom was a President of the Society of Biblical Literature.
Professor Newsom has been a member of the international team of translators of the Dead Sea Scrolls since the mid 1980s and is working on a new book; Constructing the Moral Self: Moral Agency in Biblical and Early Jewish Thought.

RSVP is essential by emailing rsvp@murdoch.edu.au by Thursday 2 October 2014