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Audios & videos
Fall 2002
Paul Alan Laughlin
How to Think Theologically
in a Global Context
How to think theologically in a global context – that theological task is increasingly recognized to be
the responsibility of all people of faith, lay as well as clergy. Using a variety of helpful diagrams and more than a dash of humor, Paul Laughlin presents the basics of that task. His approach focuses on
the conceptual options offered by the major religions of the world, East and West – as well as the types of spirituality that have spawned them – as the appropriate starting points for serious thought about
Ultimate Reality.
Paul Alan Laughlin is Professor and Chair of the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Otterbein College where he teaches comparative religions and American religious history. An ordained minister and frequent leader of workshops and seminars on the relationship between Christianity and Eastern religions, he is the author of Remedial Christianity (2000). His new book Sects Education will be forthcoming in 2003.
2 DVDs, 4 hours, $35.00 Add to cart
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Lloyd Geering
Christianity without God
Belief in God – understood as a supernatural spiritual being who created the universe and continues to sustain it – has long been assumed to be the
irreplaceable foundation of the three monotheistic religions. But just as the bible ceased, in the nineteenth century, to be convincing as the repository of divinely revealed knowledge, so the twentieth
century witnessed the death of the conventional image of God. Does this "death of God" spell the death of the whole Christian tradition or does it simply mean the end of conventional Christian doctrine?
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David McCreery
The Search for the Historical Israel
After
a century of claims that archaeology was essentially confirming the historical accuracy of the biblical narratives, the tables have recently turned. Increasingly, archaeological discoveries are calling into
question the historical value of the biblical traditions and twentieth-century histories of ancient Israel and Judah. To what extent are these histories fictitious inventions? Is it even possible to
formulate a reliable history of the biblical kingdoms? This lecture will summarize the current debate and suggest trajectories for future research.
David McCreery is Professor of Religion at Willamette University. A renowned Near Eastern archaeologist and paleobotanist, he is Co-Director of the Tell Nimrin Excavation in Jordan and former Director of the American Center of Oriental Research in Amman, Jordan. He has participated in numerous excavations, most notably at Bâb edh-Dhrâ` (ancient Sodom and Gomorrah).
1 DVD, 90 minutes, $20.00 Add to cart
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