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Christoph Markschies, a scholar of ancient Christianity who leads two prestigious scholarly organizations in Germany, presented Yale Divinity School’s Bainton Lecture on “Apocalyptic Time: Time in (Ancient Christian) Apocalyptic Literature.”
Dr. Christoph Markschies is Professor of Ancient Christianity at Humboldt University in Berlin, which he led as President from 2006 to 2010. He currently serves as President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Union of German Academies of Science and Humanities.
Inaugurated in 1988, the Roland Bainton Lectureship represents the two foci of the late Divinity School professor’s life and career: church history and the church’s witness to peace and justice.
March 4, 2024
Yale Divinity School
Christoph Markschies, a scholar of ancient Christianity who leads two prestigious scholarly organizations in Germany, presented Yale Divinity School’s Bainton Lecture on “Apocalyptic Time: Time in (Ancient Christian) Apocalyptic Literature.”
Dr. Christoph Markschies is Professor of Ancient Christianity at Humboldt University in Berlin, which he led as President from 2006 to 2010. He currently serves as President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Union of German Academies of Science and Humanities.
Inaugurated in 1988, the Roland Bainton Lectureship represents the two foci of the late Divinity School professor’s life and career: church history and the church’s witness to peace and justice.
March 4, 2024
Yale Divinity School
