Assumption College Announces Lecture

Worcester, MA—Rev. Karl P. Donfried will give this year’s Bishop Flanagan Lecture entitled: "Nurturing the Beloved Community: Ecumenism in a Time of Ambiguity," on Wednesday, October 10, 2001 at 7 p.m. at Assumption College’s Hagan Center Hall.
Rev. Donfried is a professor of Religion and Biblical Studies at Smith College. He is widely known as a speaker and scholar whose work has engaged ecumenical questions for many years. Among his publications is a book on "Peter in the New Testament," which is co-edited with the biblical scholar Fr. Raymond Brown. He has taught at Assumption College in the past, most recently as a guest lecturer in February. The lecture is free and open to the public.
The event is sponsored by Assumption College’s Ecumenical Institute. Founded in 1968, the Institute provides a forum for reflection and discussion of questions of common interest to Christians of all churches and to people of other faiths as well.