vănThanh Nguyễn delivered the 2016 Scherer Lecture. This annual lecture is funded through the Eleanor and Arnold Scherer Endowment Fund.
vănThanh Nguyễn is a religious missionary of the Society of the Divine Word (S.V.D.). He is Professor of New Testament Studies and the holder of the Francis X. Ford, M.M., Chair of Catholic Missiology at Catholic Theological Union, in Chicago, Illinois.