Dr. Shelly Matthews
Magdalene Christianity
Saturday, March 3, 2018
Early Christian Utopia?
Visions, Dreams, and Struggles
Sunday, March 4, 2018
Dr. Shelly Matthews is on the faculty of Brite Divinity School, the graduate seminary of Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth, Texas. She previously taught in the Department of Religion at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. She holds the Th.D. from Harvard University Divinity School, the M. Div. from Boston University School of Theology and the B.A. degree from the University of North Dakota. She is an ordained United Methodist Minister from the Dakotas area conference.
She is the co-editor, with Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre, of the Feminist Studies in Religion Book Series, FSR Books; and the co-founder and co-chair, with Tat-Siong Benny Liew, of the Society of Biblical Literature consultation on Racism, Pedagogy and Biblical Studies. She is currently working on two book-length projects, a feminist biblical theology of resurrection, and a co-authored feminist commentary on the Gospel of Luke.
Her publications include Perfect Martyr: The Stoning of Stephen and the Construction of Christian Identity (2010) and The Acts of the the Apostles: Taming the Tongues of Fire (2013).