"Westar Fall 2015 Meeting- Taking the Scholarship of Religion Public" from Progressive Christianity of Gig Harbor, Washington, United States for Tuesday, 5 May 2015
Join Harvey Cox, Jack Miles and scholars of the Christianity Seminar and the Seminar on God and the Human Future in an uncensored, cutting-edge exploration of these and other radical historical and theological questions!
Fall 2015 Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia
If we are ever to resolve competing ideas of God across Western religions, must we abandon the Jesus of history?
How might the primary lenses commonly used to bring the Bible into focus help us wrestle with issues of feminism, war, homosexuality, and race?
Can one imagine a scenario in which Judaism and Christianity did not develop into separate traditions?
How might atheism be employed strategically to force theologians to confront their own assumptions?
Join Harvey Cox, Jack Miles and scholars of the Christianity Seminar and the Seminar on God and the Human Future in an uncensored, cutting-edge exploration of these and other radical historical and theological questions!
Pre-register by June 22 for best rates
Public Lectures
Harvey Cox
Hollis Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard University
Described by Martin Luther King, Jr., as "one of the Church's most creative contemporary thinkers"
Secular City (1965) selected by the University of Marburg as one of the most influential books of Protestant theology in the twentieth century
How to Read the Bible
Many intelligent people do not know how to read the collection of songs, prayers, history, legend, annals, parables, poetry, and other genres we call the Bible. Harvey Cox will explore the primary lenses--literary, historical, and practical--commonly used to bring the Bible into focus, revealing its rich diversity and meaning, and offering a contemporary activist version that wrestles with issues of feminism, war, homosexuality, and race.
Fall 2015 Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia
If we are ever to resolve competing ideas of God across Western religions, must we abandon the Jesus of history?
How might the primary lenses commonly used to bring the Bible into focus help us wrestle with issues of feminism, war, homosexuality, and race?
Can one imagine a scenario in which Judaism and Christianity did not develop into separate traditions?
How might atheism be employed strategically to force theologians to confront their own assumptions?
Join Harvey Cox, Jack Miles and scholars of the Christianity Seminar and the Seminar on God and the Human Future in an uncensored, cutting-edge exploration of these and other radical historical and theological questions!
Pre-register by June 22 for best rates
Public Lectures
Harvey Cox
Hollis Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard University
Described by Martin Luther King, Jr., as "one of the Church's most creative contemporary thinkers"
Secular City (1965) selected by the University of Marburg as one of the most influential books of Protestant theology in the twentieth century
How to Read the Bible
Many intelligent people do not know how to read the collection of songs, prayers, history, legend, annals, parables, poetry, and other genres we call the Bible. Harvey Cox will explore the primary lenses--literary, historical, and practical--commonly used to bring the Bible into focus, revealing its rich diversity and meaning, and offering a contemporary activist version that wrestles with issues of feminism, war, homosexuality, and race.
Jack Miles
MacArthur Fellow, 2003-2007
Pulitzer Prize winner for GOD: A Biography in 1996
Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies with the University of California at Irvine
Senior Fellow for Religious Affairs with the Pacific Council on International Policy
If Jesus is God, what God is he?
After 9/11/2001, certain fundamentalist Christians denied that the Allah of the Qur'an could be equated with the God of the Bible. Nineteen hundred years earlier, similar arguments took place around whether the God of the Jewish Scriptures could be equated with the God of Jesus Christ. These two Gods differ to such a degree that they are virtually incompatible. Does resolving this conflict require abandoning the Jesus of history?
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Academic Seminars
The bar Kokhba revolt of 132-135 CE was perhaps the pivotal moment in the formation of post-temple Judaism and the rise of Christianity. (1) How did the revolution that briefly established an independent Jewish state impact Judaism and Christianity? (2) How did it define the future of Judaism and Christianity? (3) Would Christianity have been different if the two traditions had not separated?
Some of the greatest philosophers of human history, including Socrates and Jesus of Nazareth, were accused of atheism in their time. Historically "atheism" is the rejection of belief in a transcendental being. But it is not often noticed that "atheism" has another, radical sense, which is to undermine the assumptions of human knowledge and to push even theology and philosophical forms of religion to new frontiers of thought.
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Public Forum on Westar Seminars
What significant results emerged from the discussions of Westar's Christianity Seminar and the Seminar on God and the Human Future? What is the relevance of Seminar findings both within and beyond academia? Seminar chairs Bernard Brandon Scott and David Galston will each present a ten-minute overview of key Seminar outcomes and then open the floor to audience questions.
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AAR/SBL Highlights
A full Westar registration grants access to all AAR and SBL sessions--a practically inexhaustible smorgasbord of topics related to the study of religion, as well as to trips to local tourist attractions, including the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Change and the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
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MacArthur Fellow, 2003-2007
Pulitzer Prize winner for GOD: A Biography in 1996
Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies with the University of California at Irvine
Senior Fellow for Religious Affairs with the Pacific Council on International Policy
If Jesus is God, what God is he?
After 9/11/2001, certain fundamentalist Christians denied that the Allah of the Qur'an could be equated with the God of the Bible. Nineteen hundred years earlier, similar arguments took place around whether the God of the Jewish Scriptures could be equated with the God of Jesus Christ. These two Gods differ to such a degree that they are virtually incompatible. Does resolving this conflict require abandoning the Jesus of history?
More about public lectures
Academic Seminars
The bar Kokhba revolt of 132-135 CE was perhaps the pivotal moment in the formation of post-temple Judaism and the rise of Christianity. (1) How did the revolution that briefly established an independent Jewish state impact Judaism and Christianity? (2) How did it define the future of Judaism and Christianity? (3) Would Christianity have been different if the two traditions had not separated?
Some of the greatest philosophers of human history, including Socrates and Jesus of Nazareth, were accused of atheism in their time. Historically "atheism" is the rejection of belief in a transcendental being. But it is not often noticed that "atheism" has another, radical sense, which is to undermine the assumptions of human knowledge and to push even theology and philosophical forms of religion to new frontiers of thought.
More information here
Public Forum on Westar Seminars
What significant results emerged from the discussions of Westar's Christianity Seminar and the Seminar on God and the Human Future? What is the relevance of Seminar findings both within and beyond academia? Seminar chairs Bernard Brandon Scott and David Galston will each present a ten-minute overview of key Seminar outcomes and then open the floor to audience questions.
More about academic seminars
AAR/SBL Highlights
A full Westar registration grants access to all AAR and SBL sessions--a practically inexhaustible smorgasbord of topics related to the study of religion, as well as to trips to local tourist attractions, including the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Change and the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
More about AAR/SBL
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