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Meeting Program Units

2017 International Meeting

Berlin, Germany

Meeting Begins8/7/2017
Meeting Ends8/11/2017

Call for Papers Opens: 11/9/2016
Call for Papers Closes: 2/21/2017

Requirements for Participation

Bible and Visual Culture


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: Five-hundred years ago this October, in Wittenberg, Germany, Martin Luther nailed 95 theological theses on the cathedral door. A seemingly quotidian event for a university town, that small gesture unleashed one of the greatest theological revolutions in Christian history. It was a sea change that not only upset the religious realm, but its effects also rewrote the political allegiances of Europe while redefining the continent’s culture. In that redefinition, Sacred Scripture played a determining role. In the intervening years between Luther and now, Berlin has grown from a minor market town to one of the most exciting and vibrant capital cities in the world. Its rise from the ashes of World War II and its reunification after the fall of its infamous wall is itself a redemptive narrative of biblical proportions. While the Bible and Visual Culture invites papers and presentations on any aspect of the visual interpretation of the Bible, for our meeting in Berlin we particularly welcome those which explore: a) distinctively Protestant or Catholic visual interpretive traditions/themes, and b) works of visual interpretation displayed or produced in Berlin and the wider German-speaking world.

Program Unit Chairs

Caroline Vander Stichele
David Shepherd

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