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April 29, 2003

Luther Scholar From the Netherlands to Speak at Augustana

SIOUX FALLS - Dr. Klaas Zwanepol, a Luther scholar from the Netherlands, speaks at Augustana College on Monday, May 5.

He will speak at 10:00 a.m. in the Chapel of Reconciliation on “The Finger of God” based on Luke 11:14-28.

His lecture at 7:00 p.m. in the Morrison Commons 3-in-room is titled, “A Human God: The Meaning of Jesus Christ for Luther.”

Zwanepol comes to Augustana as part of a lecture/study tour that includes stops at Yale Divinity School, Luther Seminary, Marquette University, Concordia University in Milwaukee, Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, and the headquarters of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in Chicago.

Currently professor of theology at the University of Utrecht, Zwanepol has taught at the Reformed Theological Faculty at Kampen, the University of Groningen, and the University of Amsterdam. As a Luther scholar he has been chairman of the Interconfessional Working Group for Luther Research in the Netherlands. He is now chief editor of Luther Bulletin and also editor of Church and Theology.

Augustana is a liberal arts college of the ELCA.