Spring 2007 Calendar of Events

Dear Socratics,
Here's what's going on this semester:

Two Views on the Resurrection
Joel Marcus (Duke Divinity School) & Gary Habermas (Liberty University)
February 20 @ 12:20-1:20 – Gary Habermas: “The Resurrection of Jesus and Recent Scholarship”
February 20 @ 7:00-8:30 PM – Two Views on the Resurrection Dialogue (Marcus & Habermas)
Blog: http://resurrectiontwoviews.blogspot.com/
RSVP at resurrectiontwoviews@yahoo.com

Homosexuality Discussion Group Series
Sacred Worth & Socratic Club Co-Sponsors
February 14 @ 12:20-1:20 – Eugene Rogers:
February 15 @ 12:20-1:20 – Discussion Groups

March 7 @ 12:20-1:20 – Richard Hays: What Makes for Peace and Upbuilding? Dealing with Our
Differences in the Homosexuality Debate
March 7 @ 1:30-2:30 – Discussion Groups Part I
March 8 @ 12:20-1:20 – Discussion Groups Part II

April 11 @ 12:20-1:20 – Organizer’s Dialogue
April 11 @ 1:30-2:30 – Discussion Groups

The Jesus Seminar?
March 27 @ 12:20-1:20 – Mark Rutledge (Associate Member of the Jesus Seminar)

Sacraments & The Emerging Church Movement
March 20 @ 12:20-1:20 – Ed Phillips & Tim Conder

Race and the Divinity School
BSU (Black Seminarians Union) AME Connection (African Methodist Episcopal) & Socratic Club Co-Sponsors
February 22 @ 6:00-8:30PM – Dinner & Discussion Groups

Speaker Bios

Tim Conder (Pastor and Emergent Village Founder)
Tim Conder is the founding pastor of Emmaus Way in Durham, NC. He is married to Meredith and the father of Keenan (6th grade at the Durham School of the Arts) and Kendall (4th grade at W. G. Pearson). Tim is one of the founders of Emergent , the author of The Church in Transition: The Journey of Existing Churches into the Emerging Culture (Zondervan 2006), and is on the Board of Directors at Mars Hill Graduate School in Seattle, WA. Locally, he serves on the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Steering Committee for Durham, NC.

Gary Habermas (Distinguished Research Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy and Theology, Liberty University)
Author of 27 books including most recently Resurrected? An Atheist & Theist Dialogue with Antony Flew (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005). www.garyhabermas.com.

Richard Hays (George Washington Ivey Professor of New Testament, Duke Divinity School)
Richard B. Hays is internationally recognized for his work on the letters of Paul and on New Testament ethics. His scholarly work has bridged the disciplines of biblical criticism and literary studies, exploring the innovative ways in which early Christian writers interpreted Israel’s Scripture. His book The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation was selected by Christianity Today as one of the 100 most important religious books of the twentieth century. His most recent books are The Art of Reading Scripture (2003, co-edited with Ellen Davis) and The Conversion of the Imagination (2005). Professor Hays has lectured widely in North America, Great Britain, Europe, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand. An ordained United Methodist minister, he has preached in settings ranging from rural Oklahoma churches to London’s Westminster Abbey. Professor Hays has chaired the Pauline Epistles Section of the Society of Biblical Literature, as well as the Seminar on New Testament Ethics in the Society for New Testament Studies. He convened the Consultation on Teaching the Bible in the Twenty-First Century and presently serves as convener of a research group on “The Identity of Jesus,” an initiative sponsored by the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton. He is also the chair of the Biblical Division at Duke Divinity School.

Joel Marcus (Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins, Duke Divinity School)
Marcus teaches New Testament with an emphasis on the Gospels and the context of early Christianity in first-century Judaism. Jewish by birth, he has been a Christian for the past thirty years and an Episcopalian for the past twenty-five; the relationship between Judaism and Christianity, therefore, is an issue of existential as well as scholarly interest to him. His work attempts to fuse historical and theological concerns. His previous books include two monographs on Mark and the first part of a two-volume commentary on the same Gospel in the prestigious Anchor Bible series (Doubleday, 2000).

Ed Phillips (Associate Professor of the Practice of Christian Worship)
Professor Phillips interests are in the history of the practical and pastoral aspects of the church--how the church conducted worship, initiated Christians, and organized ministries--as a way to understand the development of Christian theology. This approach demonstrates the relevance of historical theology for men and women engaged in pastoral ministry, since these are tasks they will be confronting in their work.
He has chaired the United Methodist General Conference Holy Communion Study for the past three years. That study has produced the first comprehensive treatment of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper for the United Methodist Church or its predecessor denominations. As part of that work, he traveled to meet with Methodists throughout the United States, and in England, Germany, Zimbabwe, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Phillips' recent published work includes co-authorship of In Spirit and Truth: United Methodist Worship for the Emerging Church , and The Apostolic Tradition: A Commentary , in the Hermeneia Commentary Series and a co-editorship of Studia Liturgica Diversa, Essays in Honor of Paul Bradshaw

Eugene Rogers (Professor, Department of Religious Studies, UNC Greensborough)
Educated at Princeton, Tübingen, Rome, and Yale, Rogers taught at Yale College and Divinity School, Shaw University Divinity School, St. Anselm College, and, from 1993 to 2005, at the University of Virginia, where for several years he chaired the Program in Theology, Ethics, and Culture. In 2002-03 he was Eli Lilly Visiting Associate Professor of Christian Thought and Practice in the Religion Department at Princeton University. He has held fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the Mellon Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the Lilly Foundation, the Center of Theological Inquiry at Princeton Seminary, and the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University. He is author or editor of four books and over twenty articles and translations. He joined the UNCG faculty in 2005. His book Sexuality and the Christian Body presents a marriage theology (for both gay and straight) that is centered on the Triune God revealed in Jesus Christ.