Windows on the World: David Taylor

| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

St. Davids Campus, 1300 Eagle Road, St. Davids, PA 19087

David Taylor: Associate Professor of Theology and Culture at Fuller

David TaylorWindows on the World (April 12th at 10 a.m.): Anger, Profanity, and the Therapeutic Rhetoric of Violence in the Psalms. Are the curse psalms off limits for Christians, as many have alleged throughout history? Are they not directly contrary to the peaceable kingdom that Christ preached? Or might there be a good therapeutic purpose to praying these angry, seemingly profane poems? In this talk, Dr. Taylor suggests that, prayed rightly, they point to a way out of slavery to revenge and into the freedom of forgiveness.

W. David O. Taylor is Associate Professor of Theology and Culture at Fuller Theological Seminary and the author of several books, including Prayers for the Pilgrimage (IVP, 2024), A Body of Praise (Baker Academic, 2023), Open and Unafraid (Thomas Nelson/HarperCollins, 2020), Glimpses of the New Creation (Eerdmans, 2019), and The Theater of God’s Glory (Eerdmans, 2017). He has also written for The Washington Post, Image Journal, Religion News Service, Theology Today, and Christianity Today, among others. An Anglican priest, he has lectured widely on the arts, from Thailand to South Africa. In 2016 he produced a short film on the psalms with Bono and Eugene Peterson. He lives with his family in Austin, Texas, and you can usually find him on Twitter trying to stay as sane as possible (@wdavidotaylor). Learn more about David Taylor.