Audiotapes & videotapes

Spring 2006 Meeting

Phyllis Tickle

Watchmen, What of the Night?

A popular quip, attributed to retired Episcopal Bishop Mark Dwyer, holds that in order to understand our times, we must first understand that about every five hundred years, the Church feels compelled to hold "a giant rummage sale," and we're in one of those "five hundred years's." The same observation can also be made of the larger Western experience of which the Church is a part. For many years, Phyllis Tickle has served as an analyst and commentator on religion in America. Using Bishop Dwyer's witticism as a lens through which to focus our attention, she will explore the animated and raucous parade that is our changing religious landscape.

Phyllis Tickle is founding editor of the religion department of Publishers Weekly. The recipient in 1996 of the Mays Award for lifetime achievement in writing and publishing, she is the author of more than two dozen books, including Prayer is a Place .  In 2004, she was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters from the Berkeley School of Divinity at Yale University.

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Aaron Milavec

Faith, Hope, and Life of the Earliest Christian Communities

Many Christians believe that everything about Jesus and the early church can be found in the New Testament. In recent years, however, the discovery of the Gospel of Thomas and the reconstruction of the Q-Gospel are evidence that some very early materials were left out. Now the Didache ("DID-ah-kay"), the most decisive document of them all and the earliest known adaptation of the Jesus tradition for family living, is shining new light on Christian origins prior to the written gospels. Using a hands-on case study methodology, Aaron Milavec will invite participants to examine the text, make hunches, and gradually discover the joys, the dangers, and the hopes of this early Christian community. 

Aaron Milavec is a dynamic teacher and pioneering scholar. A seminary and university professor for twenty-five years, he is the chair of the Society of Biblical Literature program unit, The Didache in Context, and the author of The Didache: Faith, Hope, and Life of the Earliest Christian Communities, 50-70 C.E. , which won a 2004 Catholic Press Club award recognizing the best books in theology.

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Arthur J. Dewey & Brandon Scott

Rediscovering Paul

The legacy of the apostle Paul clearly dominates the shape of early Christianity—he is credited as author of half of the New Testament writings and he is the dominant character in the book of Acts.  Paul is often credited—or blamed—for many traditional moral positions now debated in our culture. Is the historical Paul the Paul of the great undisputed letters or the Paul of the Pastoral Letters?  How does a more historical perspective on Paul affect our understanding of Paul's arguments about sexuality and the role of women, or about theological issues such as the meaning of Jesus' death?

Arthur J. Dewey is Professor of Theology, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio and co-founder of the Healing Deadly Memories Program, a unique project that conducts workshops on how to deal with the question of anti-Semitism in the New Testament.

Bernard Brandon Scott is the Darbeth Distinguished Professor of New Testament at the Phillips Theological Seminary, Tulsa, OK. He is the author of several books, including Re-Imagine the World (2002) and Hear Then the Parable (1989).

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