Join the Center for Catholic Studies on Tuesday, Sept. 23, to hear Christopher McMahon, Ph.D., speak on Reading the Bible Today.

Christopher McMahon, Ph.D., will speak on Reading the Bible Today. His lecture explores how Scripture speaks to a world marked by injustice, anxiety, and longing, inviting a faithful imagination shaped by both tradition and contemporary experience. 

About the Speaker

Christopher McMahon, Ph.D., is a Professor of Theology at Saint Vincent College. His teaching and research focus on the Gospels, Christology, ecclesiology and the relationship between theology and contemporary culture. He is the author of Reading the Gospels: Biblical Interpretation in the Catholic Tradition and Understanding Jesus: Christology from Emmaus to Today.  

Whether in the classroom, at the parish lectern or through service trips abroad, McMahon’s work asks how Christian belief holds up under pressure, and how it speaks to suffering, justice and hope.   

About the Series

Thanks to a generous gift from Trustee Emeritus Ruben Escobedo (B.B.A. ’60) and his wife Verónica Salazar Escobedo, the Escobedo Saint John’s Bible Lecture Series was created and allows St. Mary’s University to share the remarkable illuminated pages with members of the
St. Mary’s community, and with faith communities from across Texas and the nation. 

The Escobedo Saint John’s Bible Lecture Series brings to campus biblical scholars whose pursuit of knowledge demonstrates the complementarity of faith and reason illuminated by the artwork of The Saint John’s Bible. Exemplifying the richness of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, it enhances both the intellectual development and spiritual growth of our students.

For more information, contact Jason King, Ph.D., at jking25@stmarytx.edu.