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The Future of the Faith
Charles W. Hedrick & Roy W. Hoover
LECTURE
Tradition and Faith in a New Era
"Tradition is the living faith of the dead,
Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living."
--Jaroslav Pelikan
No greater challenge can confront an historic religious tradition than to find itself confronted by a cultural sea change that sweeps human history into a whole new era. In this opening session we will characterize the challenge that the rise of the modern world poses for the Christian tradition, and gain additional perspective on this challenge by examining the most dramatic case in the first Christian generation: one man's assessment of the prospects for his religious tradition and for the future of faith.
Friday, 7:30-9 P.M.
WORKSHOPS
The Language of Faith
“... the language of a people is its fate: it sets their course in life and shapes their destiny.” —Amos N. Wilder
The idea of the Kingdom of God furnished Jesus of Nazareth with the language of the message he proclaimed. What does that language really mean? Can it resonate with our experience in the twenty-first century, or must we remain tethered to the religious language of antiquity? This question, in turn, raises another question: are the earliest clarifications of the language of Jesus in early Christianity definitive for all time?
Saturday, 9:30.-NOON
The Theological Re-education of the Church
"We must be prepared to reassess every conception of God that has appeared to date.” —Gordon Kaufman
“The church should be concerned with preaching the gospel, not with preaching passages from the Bible.”—Edward Farley
The greatest challenge facing the churches today, says Marcus Borg, is its own theological re-education. At the very least that calls the church to engage in the task of constructing a theological language that can illumine human life in the modern world. Its language of faith must be reinvented, if it is not to become a museum. What does that involve?
Saturday 1:30-4 P.M.
Charles W. Hedrick (Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School) is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at Missouri State University. A member of the UNESCO team of scholars who reconstructed and translated the Nag Hammadi Codices, he is the author of several books, including The Gospel of the Savior (with Paul Mirecki, 1999) and editor of When Faith Meets Reason (2008).
Roy W. Hoover (Th.D., Harvard University) is Weyerhaeuser Professor of Biblical Literature and Professor of Religion Emeritus, Whitman College. He is co-author (with Robert W. Funk) of The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus (1993) and editor of Profiles of Jesus (2003).
ALL EVENTS AT
Unitarian Universalist Church of Transylvania County
1 Varsity Street (at Broad Street)
Brevard, North Carolina 28712
All Sessions
$ U.S.
Pre-registration (by April 2)
$60
Registration (after April 2)
$75
Additional Family Member
$50
Single Sessions
Friday Evening Lecture
$20
Saturday Morning Workshop
$30
Saturday Afternoon Workshop
$30
To register by mail or fax, use the printable JSOR registration form
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Westar Institute
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