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Competing Early Christian Voices
The Contest for Authority
The last 150 years have witnessed a wide range of exciting new discoveries of early Christian literature not included in the New Testament. Documents such as The Gospel of Thomas, The Gospel of Mary (Magdalene), The Gospel of Peter, The Gospel of Judas, The Thunder: Perfect Mind, The Secret Book of John, The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, and many others have begun to reshape how the beginnings of Christianity are conceived. In the meantime scholars have also come to terms with the conflicting perspectives within the New Testament. It is now clear that a great diversity of often competing, early Christian literature existed, that cannot be best assessed using the categories of orthodoxy and heresy, biblical or non-biblical.
This workshop concentrates om describing some of the many important new documents from the first two centuries of early Christianity. It looks carefully at how these new documents help make sense of the many differences in early Christian literature, both inside and outside the New Testament.
LECTURE
Arthur J. Dewey & Hal Taussig
Canon and History
Re-Thinking Early Christianity
Friday, 7:30-9 P.M.
WORKSHOPS
Arthur J. Dewey
The Gospel of Thomas
One of the earliest gospels with many new perspectives.
Saturday, 9:30-10:30 A.M..
Hal Taussig
Thunder, Perfect Mind,
A dramatic self-presentation of a female divinity
Gospel of Mary,
The only gospel with a woman protagonist
Saturday, 11A.M.-NOON
Arthur J. Dewey & Hal Taussig
Gospel of Peter: perhaps the earliest story of Jesus’ death and resurrection
Secret Book of John: an early Christian attack on the Roman empire and its oppression
Saturday 1:30-2:30 P.M.
Arthur J. Dewey & Hal Taussig
A New Picture of How Christianity Began
Saturday 3-4 P.M
Hal Taussig (Ph.D., The Union Institute) is Visiting Professor of New Testament at Union Theological Seminary, NYC, Professor of Early Christianity at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia, and co-pastor at the Chestnut Hill United Methodist Church. His several books include Jesus Before God (1999) and A New Spiritual Home (2006).
Arthur J. Dewey ( Th.D., Harvard University) 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.
ALL EVENTS AT
First Presbyterian Church
119 West F Street
Elizabethton, TN 37643
FEES & REGISTRATION
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