S9 Ep929: The Scandal of Christmas, Part 3: Dr. Lynn Cohick

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🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In this third part of our four part series, New Testament scholar Dr. Lynn Cohick walks us through the significance of women in the birth narratives. We talk a lot about Mary, Elizabeth, Jesus’s genealogy (which contains 5 women), how the appearance of women in the genealogy has been misunderstood, and we also discuss the woman at the well in John 4 and how she was not a sexually promiscuous woman.

Lynn currently serves as as Provost and Dean of Academic Affairs of Northern Seminary in Lisle, Illinois. Lynn received her bachelor’s degree from Messiah College in Grantham, PA, and her Ph.D. in New Testament and Christian Origins from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. After 18 years as professor of New Testament and Biblical Studies at Wheaton College (serving as department chair and dean toward the end of her time there), Lynn accepted the invitation to join Denver Seminary as their Provost / Dean. She also taught at Messiah College (Grantham, PA), and Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology (Nairobi, Kenya) in the 80s and 90s, respectively.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Rock. I wanted to let you know
0:03.7	about a bunch of events that we have coming up. Of course, we have the Theology in the Rock conference
0:07.6	in the spring. March 31st through April 2nd, where we're going to be talking about race,
0:11.5	sexuality, gender, hell, politics, all the stuff that we're thinking about these days.
0:15.9	All the info is on my, on my website, PrestonSprinkle.com. We also have a faith, sexuality,
0:21.6	and gender conference on February 8th through the 9th of 2022 in Sacramento. So if you're in
0:28.2	the Sacramento area, you might want to consider attending that, or we will be live streaming this
0:32.4	event. We'll, we'll live stream both the sexuality and gender conference and also the Theology
0:36.4	in the Rock conference. The info for the faith sexuality and gender conference is on, on the website
0:41.9	center for faith.com forward slash events. And if you go to that link, you will also see loads of
0:48.2	webinars that we are releasing this winter and this spring on faith sexuality and gender. We're
0:53.7	going to be talking about discipling teenagers in a sexualized world. We've got a Q&A webinar
0:58.2	for parents with LGBTQ kids. How we should think about reparative therapy therapy. We're actually
1:04.0	going to dig into that. How to journey with gender and sexual minorities and so on and so forth.
1:08.6	Again, all the info for the webinars and the sexuality and gender conferences at centerforfaith.com
1:13.2	forward slash events. My guess today is the one and only Dr. Lynn Cohic. Lynn is a world
1:21.9	renowned New Testament scholar. She has taught for almost two decades at Wheaton College outside of
1:28.0	Chicago. She had a brief stint at Denver Seminary and then now she is at Northern Seminary in Chicago.
1:32.8	She's the author of many, many academic books. She has a PhD from University of Pennsylvania.
1:38.6	She is super brilliant, super wise. And we dig deep into the role of women in the Christmas story.
1:45.2	And we also talk about various other incidences with women in the gospel. So please welcome back
1:50.0	to the show for the sixth time. We want to know the Dr. Lynn Cohic.
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