CHARIS Ecumenical Center
UPCOMING EVENTS:
"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 immediately following presentation, in honor of Arland Jacobson's retirement.
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The CHARIS Ecumenical Center is a program of adult lifelong learning for the church in the region and a program of grassroots ecumenical work. It is a partnership between Concordia College and four synods of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, two Roman Catholic dioceses, two United Methodist annual conferences, two conferences of the United Church of Christ, one presbytery, and one Episcopal diocese.
CHARIS lifelong learning opportunities are designed to meet the needs of the churches in the geographical area served by CHARIS. The courses, workshops and seminars are intended to equip both clergy and laity to minister more effectively to people in a rapidly changing society. Since CHARIS began in 1970, thousands of participants from nearly every denomination have been involved in these courses and events.
Ecumenism and now interfaith dialogue are fundamental to the mission of the CHARIS center. As participants from different religious backgrounds, you’ll enjoy studying and learning in an atmosphere of trust and understanding. You will be enriched and, in turn, enrich others.
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