Parish
Life
Sunday
Classes - Adults
Summer Term Sunday Classes
10:15 am-11:00 a.m.
August 29-September 19
- Chapters in the History of Interpreting the Bible
in the Great Hall with Dr. Patrick Gray
This class begins with a general overview of different ideas about/attitudes toward/definitions of/historical trends in “biblical interpretation.” The moment the books of the Bible were written, people started interpreting them. This series examines different ideas about and trends in “biblical interpretation” and considers a range of case studies from this long and curious history.
Patrick Gray is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College, specializing in the New Testament. He received his Ph.D. in religion from Emory University. Previously he has taught at Emory and at Oglethorpe University, as well as in Japan. He is the author of Godly Fear: The Epistle to the Hebrews and Greco-Roman Critiques of Superstition, and is the co-editor of three other books on the Bible, the history of biblical interpretation, and Hellenistic philosophy.
August 22-September 12
- Book Study on The Great Emergence: How
Christianity Is Changing and Why by Phyllis Tickle
in the Emison Room
with Bonnie Binkley & Rob Waldo
Coming after Phyllis Tickle’s recent class at Calvary, this four week book
study on Tickle’s 2008 book The Great Emergence highlights the idea that there has been a pattern of religious upheaval around every 500 years, and one is happening now, right on schedule. Called ‘an immensely important contribution to the current conversation about new
and emerging forms of Christianity’ by the Most Rev. Katherine Jefferts
Schori, the book asks the question ‘where is the source of authority for the Church today?’ and points in some directions we may wish to search.