Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 26 March 2011
New Book by CITI Lecturer
Dr Katie Heffelfinger, who is Lecturer in Biblical Studies and Hermeneutics at the Church of Ireland Theological Institute , has published the fruits of her postgraduate research at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, as I am large, I contain multitudes. Lyric cohesion and conflict in Second Isaiah.
This book joins the notion that Second Isaiah is a poetic text with the task of interpreting it as a unified whole. In so doing, it makes methodological suggestions for applying a lyric poetic approach to biblical texts. The practical application of this approach shows Second Isaiah to be characterized by tension, conflict, and juxtaposition. The lyric model shows these conflicts, such as the presence of searing indictments in the ‘book of comfort,’ to be integral elements of the mode by which Second Isaiah addresses its audience. This book highlights the tonalities of the divine voice as central to Second Isaiah’s particularly poetic mode of cohesion and essential to the conflicted comfort Second Isaiah offers its reader.
The book should appeal to those interested the interpretation of Second Isaiah, biblical Hebrew poetry, literary representations of divine speech, and lyric poetic analysis and is appropriate for biblical scholars, theologians, students, and seminarians.
I am large, I am multitudes has been published by the respected Dutch publisher, Brill, at the challenging price of €119 but, due to the generosity of the author, is also available on loan to members of the Representative Church Body Library.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the Bishop of Cork will preside at a service in St Fin Barre’s Cathedral to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the building of St Fin Barre’s National School on its present site in the gardens of The Palace. In Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, the Church’s Ministry of Healing will hold a Taizé Service in the crypt at 5pm while at the same time in the Lady Chapel there will be a celebration of the Eucharist in Irish organized by Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise. The annual Ecumenical Thanksgiving Service for the Gift of Sport will be held at 7pm in St Ann’s Church, Dawson Street, Dublin, where the address will be given by John Delany, CEO of the FAI.
In St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick, on Wednesday evening there will be a ‘Leaving Certificate Guide to Cantata BWV78, Jesu der du Meine Seele’, by J.S. Bach. Supported by the Post-Primary Teachers’ Association, this event will consist of a pre-concert talk and demonstration at 6.30pm and a full performance at 7.30pm presented and directed by Peter Barley with the Cathedral Choir, Ancor Chamber Choir, soloists and orchestra.
On Wednesday evening RTE’s Political Correspondent, David Davin-Power, will give a Lenten talk in Drumcondra Church at 7.45pm while in St Macartin’s Cathedral, Hall, Enniskillen, a Lenten talk on ‘Islam – Christian/Muslim Relations in Africa’ will be given by Dr Christopher Steed. The speakers at the Rathfarnham Ecumenical Lenten Series on Thursday evening will be Fr Peter McVerry and Information Commissioner, Emily O’Reilly, while Judge Catherine McGuinness will speak on ‘Law and Morality’ at the Booterstown & Mount Merrion Ecumenical Lenten Series in the Radisson St Helen’s Hotel at 8pm.
In Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, at 7.30pm on Wednesday the Cathedral Girls’ Choir and the Pacific Northwest Choirs will give a concert in aid of LauraLynn House at Children’s Sunshine Home, Ireland’s first children’s hospice.
On Thursday evening in St Macartan’s Cathedral, Clogher, the Bishop of Clogher will institute the Revd Noel Regan as rector of the cathedral group of parishes which includes Errigle Portclare, Augher, Newtownsaville and Eskrahoole.