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Competing Early Christian Voices
The Contest for Authority
Charles W. Hedrick & Hal Taussig
The last 150 years have witnessed a wide range of exciting new discoveries of early Christian literature not included in the New Testament. Documents such as The Gospel of Thomas, The Gospel of Mary (Magdalene), The Gospel of Peter, The Gospel of Judas, The Thunder: Perfect Mind, The Gospel of the Savior, The Secret Book of John, The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, and many others have begun to reshape how the beginnings of Christianity are conceived. In the meantime scholars have also come to terms with the conflicting perspectives within the New Testament. It is now clear that a great diversity of often competing, early Christian literature existed, that cannot be best assessed using the categories of orthodoxy and heresy, biblical or non-biblical.
This workshop concentrates on describing some of the many important new documents from the first two centuries of early Christianity. It looks carefully at how these new documents help make sense of the many differences in early Christian literature, both inside and outside the New Testament, and emphasizes how diverse early Christianity was in even its basic ideas.
LECTURE
Charles W. Hedrick & Hal Taussig
Canon and History
Re-Thinking Early Christianity
Friday, 7:30-9 P.M.
WORKSHOPS
Hal Taussig
Thunder, Perfect Mind:
A dramatic self-presentation of a female divinity
Saturday, 9:30-10:30 A.M..
Charles W. Hedrick
Different Views of the Crucifixion through Early Christian Eyes
Saturday, 11A.M.-NOON
Hal Taussig
The Gospel of Mary
The only gospel with a woman protagonist
The Apocryphon of John
A secret early attack on the Roman Empire and its oppressive ideology
Saturday 1:30-2:30 P.M.
Charles W. Hedrick
Different Views of the Resurrection through Early Christian Eyes
Saturday 3-4 P.M.
Hal Taussig (Ph.D., The Union Institute) is Visiting Professor of New Testament at Union Theological Seminary, NYC, Professor of Early Christianity at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia, and co-pastor at the Chestnut Hill United Methodist Church. His several books include Jesus Before God (1999) and A New Spiritual Home (2006).
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).
ALL EVENTS AT
Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock
48 Shelter Rock Road
Manhasset, New York 11030
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