Courses and Conferences
JESUS CHRIST, SON OF GOD, SAVIOR" featuring John Dominic Crossan
Thursday, November 5 (10:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.)
The Centrum, Knutson Campus Center, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN
Before Jesus ever existed and even if Jesus had never existed there was a human being in that first-century Mediterranean world who was announced as Divine, Son of God, God, and God from God, who was proclaimed as Lord, Redeemer, Liberator, and Savior of the World. When Christians took all those titles from a Roman emperor called Caesar the Augustus and gave them to a Jewish peasant named Jesus the Christ, what was the precise difference in content and meaning of those same titles for two very different individuals?
John Dominic Crossan is generally regarded as the leading historical Jesus scholar in the world. He is the author of several bestselling books, including The Historical Jesus, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, The Birth of Christianity, and Who Killed Jesus? He lives in Clermont, Florida.
John Dominic Crossan was born in Nenagh County in Tipperary, Ireland, in 1934. He was educated in Ireland and the United States, received a Doctorate of Divinity from Maynooth College in Ireland in 1959, and did post-doctoral research at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome from 1959 to 1961 and at the École Biblique in Jerusalem from 1965 to 1967. He was a member of a thirteenth-century Roman Catholic religious order, the Servites (Ordo Servorum Mariae), from 1950 to 1969 and was an ordained priest from 1957 to 1969. He joined DePaul University in Chicago in 1969 and remained there until 1995. He is now a Professor Emeritus in its Department of Religious Studies.
Cost: $125; Early Bird Discount (if paid in full by October 16) - $99; Group Rate (3 or more per congregation) - $85
Reception in honor of Arland Jacobson's retirement will immediately follow the Crossan event.
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North Dakota 101
Oct. 1-2, 2009
Maryvale Retreat Center, near Valley City, N.D.
Join us for this introduction to North Dakota, including the state’s history, the future of agriculture, community development, how to access social services, Native Americans, and the realities of rural ministry. The event is sponsored by the Rural Life Committee of the North Dakota Conference of Churches and CHARIS.
This event runs from 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 1, through 3:30 p.m. Friday, Oct 2.
Registration
$150, including room and board
Call Elicia Jacobson of the North Dakota Conference of Churches at (701) 226-8037.
CHARIS
