12:20 pm Jesus Seminar on the Road this weekend at First Presbyterian
Jesus Seminar on The Road will return to Elizabethton this evening and Saturday with a lecture this evening at the First Presbyterian Church and Saturday morning and afternoon workshops
Dr. Robert J. Miller and Dr. Jarmo Tarkki will present a lecture this evening from 7:30 until 9 o’clock on “The Search for the Historical Jesus.” The search for the historical Jesus examines the gospels in order to discover who Jesus was before He became the object of Christian belief.
“The Jesus of the First Century” will be theme of a workshop Saturday from 9:30 a.m. until noon. This workshop will examine selected sayings of Jesus, showing why scholars consider them authentic and suggesting surprising ways they might have been understood in the process. Participants will be introduced to the methods of moderschip used to distinguish the words of the historical Jesus from those later attributed to Him.
The theme of the afternoon workshop scheduled from 1:30 to 4 p.m. is “The Jesus of the 21st Century. The presenters will offer their insights and engage participants in a discussion about the relation of historical Jesus to the questions: What does the rediscovery of the historical Jesus mean for the heirs of the Christian tradition? Does this Jesus have any relevance for contemporary culture and for people who claim no allegiance to Christianity?
Dr. Miller is Professor of Religious Studies at Juniata College in Pennsylvania. He is editor of The Apocalypic Jesus and The Complete Gospels. He is also the author of Born Divine: The Births of Jesus and Other Sons of God and The Jesus Seminar and Its Critics.
Dr. Tarkki is senior pastor at Bethania Lutheran Church in Solvang, Calif. He is adjunct professor of theology at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, and a teaching fellow in Philosophical Theology at the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary. Dr. Tarkki is the author of numerous books and articles.
The Jesus Seminar is a program of the Westar Institute, whose mission is to foster collaborative research in religious studies and to communicate the results of the scholarship of religion to abroad non-specialist public.
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