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The Bates Student - September 5, 1997

 
 

Peter Gomes '65 to come home
 
Noted Harvard theologian Peter J. Gomes, Bates College class of `65, will discuss themes connected with his recently published bestseller The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart at the Edmund S. Muskie Archives on Tuesday, September 9 at 4:00 p.m.

The Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and minister of the Memorial Church at Harvard University, Gomes reinterprets the bible as a dynamic, transforming and inclusionary work for our times. "The theme of this book is the risk and joy of the Bible: risk in that we might get it wrong, and joy in the discovery of the living Word becoming flesh," Gomes wrote.

Since being named by Time Magazine in 1979 as one of our country's seven most influential preachers, he has remained an insistent voice of conscience, blending a conservative view of religion and morality -- he is a leading authority on the Pilgrims of Plymouth -- with contemporary concern for the physical and spiritual welfare of all Americans.

Humor and wit inform the serious moral content of his sermonsand have made him a sought-after speaker, including two presidential inaugurations.

Gomes graduated from Bates and Harvard Divinity School., and has been minister at the Memorial Church since 1974, when he was appointed Plummer Professor of Christian Morals.
 


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