Re-Imagine the World
God’s Empire & the 21st Century

Bernard Brandon Scott & Arthur J. Dewey

 

LECTURE

9/11 & the Empire of God
Art Dewey and Brandon Scott will sketch out the Abrahamic religions' flirtation and seduction by empire and discuss how that is affecting the current religious and political situation.
      Friday, 7:30-9 pm

WORKSHOPS

Jesus’ World, the Roman Empire
Pax Romana is a dominant myth in the West. But for whom did Rome mean peace? And what did it bode for the others? What was life like in the Roman Empire? How did its economy work?  What were its fundamental values?  What was the underside of the Roman propaganda machine?
      Saturday, 9:30-10:30 am

Jesus’ Challenge to Empire
Jesus' preaching of the Empire (Kingdom) of God is a frontal assault on Rome's empire. That assault has often been spiritualized, but its raw reality is attested in the crucifixion. We will use the parables of Jesus to explore his disconcerting strategy.
      Saturday, 10:30-11:30 am

Paul’s Subversion of Empire
Philippians 2:6–12  and Rom 1:1–7 are evidence that Paul is not singing the standard imperial tune. Phil 2:6–12 is an early Christian hymn that borrows imperial imagery to subvert the Empire, while Rom 1:1–7 is nothing less than coded treason.
      Saturday, 1:30-2:30 pm

Re-Imagining our World
In this closing session the fellows will lead an open forum: What strategies of hope and survival can we learn from our tradition? How can we maintain a critical stance towards the complexity of our world? And how might we reconsider religion in a non-imperial fashion?
      Saturday, 3-4 pm

FACULTY

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

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.

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