Disciples Divinity House

Two noted Disciples authors will discuss their scholarly collaboration and especially their three-volume commentary, "Preaching without Prejudice," on Monday, November 7. Clark M. Williamson is Indiana Professor of Christian Thought Emeritus at Christian Theological Seminary and a trustee of the Disciples Divinity House. A systematic theologian, he concentrates on rethinking Christian theology after the Holocaust. A Guest in the House of Israel: Post-Holocaust Church Theology and Way of Blessing, Way of Life: A Christian Theology are among his acclaimed books. Ronald J. Allen is the Nettie Sweeney and Hugh Th. Miller Professor of Preaching and New Testament at CTS and the author or coauthor of more than 30 books. From 2000-2004, he directed a study about how people listen to sermons that was funded by the Lilly Endowment. Together, they wrote a three-volume commentary that identifies and proposes remedies for anti-Jewish tendencies in the common lectionary. The volumes are entitled Preaching the Gospels without Blaming the Jews (2004), Preaching the Letters without Dismissing the Law (2006), and Preaching the Old Testament (2007), all published by Westminster John Knox Press. Allen and Williamson have collaborated on five other books.