Dr. Kang-Yup Na, assistant professor of religion at Westminster College, will present "In a Mirror, Dimly: The Historicality and Metaphoricality of Paul" at the Henderson Lecture Wednesday, Oct. 5, at 7 p.m. at the Witherspoon Maple Room located in the McKelvey Campus Center.

 "Biblical scholars have already written on Paul's use of metaphors in his letters," writes Na.  "What has not yet been suggested, is to think of the Pauline corpus itself metaphorically, i.e., to view the entirety of Pauline texts as a creative vehicle of meaning&the hope is that our attempts to understand Paul would help us understand ourselves as we reflect on our own world."

The Henderson Lecture was founded by Dr. Joseph R. Henderson and his wife, Elizabeth, to encourage and recognize original and continuing research and scholarship among Westminster College faculty, and to afford the opportunity for faculty to share their learning with the academic community.  Dr. Henderson is a professor emeritus of education at Westminster, and served as chair of the Department of Education and director of the Graduate Program.  Each year Westminster faculty members may nominate themselves or others to receive the lectureship, which includes a stipend to support a specific research project.  A special faculty committee chooses from the nominees.

Na, who has been with Westminster College since 1998, earned his undergraduate degree from Princeton University, his master's from the Princeton Theological Seminary, and his Ph.D. from Emory University.

 Contact Na at (724) 946-7155 or e-mail at nak@westminster.edu for more information.