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FALL
2010
SUNDAY SCHOOL
CLASSES
9:40 am - 10:40 am
BIBLE ADVENTURES CLASS
Led by Class Members
Room 100
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time
The class
will read and discuss the book by Marcus Borg,
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time.
Christian worship is a response to a worshiper's image of Jesus,
and all images of Jesus fall short of his reality--in the same
way that all biographies and portraits fail to depict a whole
person. In his book, New Testament scholar Marcus Borg attempts
to understand how popular images of Jesus connect Christians to
their Savior or may isolate them from him. Borg writes about his
own evolving ideas of who Jesus was, considers the scholarly and
popular religious evolution of Jesus' public image, and
investigates with special care the effects of Historical Jesus
research on contemporary images of Jesus.
DISCOVERY CLASS
Led by Joelle & Rich Dunham
Room 214
Surprised By Hope
"If you died tonight, do you know where you would
go?" Christians for many years have been asking this question.
As award-winning author N. T. Wright points out however, the
answer isn't heaven. In Surprised by Hope, Wright, one of
today's premier Bible scholars, asserts that Christianity's most
distinctive idea is bodily resurrection. He provides a
magisterial defense for a literal resurrection of Jesus and
shows how this became the cornerstone for the Christian
community's hope in the bodily resurrection of all people at the
end of the age. Wright then explores our expectation of "new
heavens and a new earth," revealing what happens to the dead
until then and what will happen with the "second coming" of
Jesus.
FRIENDSHIP CLASS
Led by Jeani Goodwin
Room 216
The History of Christian Theology
This course begins in antiquity with a brief look
at the Roots of Religion which explores some of the religious
expressions of earliest humankind, even as far back as the
Neanderthal. Presented through the eyes of an archaeologist,
the course will explore the deities of the Acropolis, the stone
heads of Easter Island, the lost city of Machu Picchu, and the
gods and pyramids at Teotihuacan. With a firm background of
understanding humankind’s need to worship the Other, the course
will then deal with the History of Christian Theology. Some of
the topics covered will be: What did the early Christians
believe? How did Christianity become separate from Judaism?
How did different forms of Christian beliefs and denominations
develop, and how are these beliefs both different and similar?
What is Reformation theology? The course will conclude with
Protestantism after modernity. The course will consist of
lecture and DVD supplementation
with discussion.
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ROAD LESS TRAVELLED CLASS
Led by Jo Carol Nesset-Sale
Room 218
Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality
This class will read and discuss the book by Barbara
Bradley Hagerty, in which the prize-winning journalist explores
questions such as ”Is spiritual experience real? Or is it a delusion?”;
“When we pray, what happens?” Examining the
discoveries that science is making about how and why we believe, Hagerty
reaches beyond what we think we know to understand whether the ineffable
place beyond this world can be rationally –even
scientifically–explained.
SIMPLY CHRISTIAN CLASS
Led by Abby Brink
Room 208
The Jesus I Never Knew
This class will read
and discuss the book
The
Jesus I Never Knew
by Philip
Yancey. Critically acclaimed as the most significant Christian book of
the last ten years, it was selected for the prestigious Gold Medallion
Christian Book of the Year Award in 1996. Yancey peels away popular
stereotypes to present a brilliant and challenging portrait of Christ -
his teaching, his miracles, his death and resurrection, and ultimately,
who he was and why he came. This study guide helps readers press beyond
the traditional picture to uncover a Jesus who is brilliant, creative,
challenging, fearless, compassionate, unpredictable, and ultimately
satisfying.
SOLA SCRIPTURA CLASS
Led by Class Member
Fellowship Hall
The Harmony of the Gospels
This class will
continue its study of the
Harmony
of the Gospels,
with the verses of the four gospels presented side by side in
chronological order.
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