The Bethany College Religion Department, the Bishop Kemper School for Ministry and the Bethany House of Studies are pleased to present:
Preaching the Gospel of Luke
Thursday, September 17, 2015
9:45 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Bud Pearson Chapel, Bethany College
Lindsborg, Kansas
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Who Should Attend?
This workshop is designed for clergy and laypeople alike who are keenly interested in proclaiming, teaching and/or hearing the Good News. Our presenters will offer information and perspectives on the Gospel of Luke that are intended to assist both those who deliver sermons and those who faithfully listen to and heed the Gospel message. |
Cost: $30.00 per person, $25.00 for each addition person from the same congregation. Paid by check at the door.
Register: Click here to register online for this workshop. Questions: If you have questions, contact the Rev. Richard Monson at monsonrb@gmail.com, or (620) 241-6003 |
Schedule
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9:45 a.m.
10:15 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m. 1:15 p.m. 2:15 p.m. 3:00 p.m. |
Registration & Coffee
Bethany College Chapel Opening Worship Rev. Rachael Pryor, Director of First Year Initiatives and Director of Campus Ministry, Bethany College Session One: How the Birth Stories and Parables in Luke Impact Human Condition Dr. Adam Pryor, Assistant Professor of Religion, Bethany College Session Two: What Hath Ferguson to Do with Jerusalem? Racial and Cultural Difference in Luke’s Gospel and Beyond Dr. Tyler Atkinson, Assistant Professor of Religion, Bethany College Dr. Atkinson will be looking at the themes of racial and cultural difference in the Gospel of Luke (as well as Acts), probing the ways in which the Gospel’s narration around such themes might prove timely for us as we respond to racism and various sex- and gender-related phobias in contemporary society. Lunch Levin Room, Pihlblad Student Union Session Three: Skip the Gym: St. Luke's Regimen for a Glorious Body The Very Rev. Benjamin Thomas, ThD, Dean of Christ Cathedral, Salina, KS Session Four: Communicating Luke from the Pulpit to the Pew Dr. Carl Isaacson, Professor of Communications, Bethany College In this session, Carl will re-enforce Barth's message “to preach with the scripture in one hand and the newspaper in the other and to preach as if I would never preach again, as a dying man to dying men." Carl fears that “too much of what is heard from the pulpit is timid and doesn't even try to reach the heart.” Closing The Rev. Rachael Pryor |
About the Presenters
Dr. Tyler Atkinson is a native of North Carolina, Atkinson attended the Divinity School, Duke University, where he earned a Master of Divinity (magna cum laude). He then headed to Scotland to study theological ethics under the supervision of Dr. Brian Brock at the University of Aberdeen. There, Atkinson was awarded his PhD with distinction. His doctoral thesis, Singing at the Winepress: Ecclesiastes and the Ethics of Work, has recently been published by Bloomsbury T&T Clark (2015). He has published articles in Studies in Christian Ethics and the Scottish Journal of Theology, as well as presenting papers at the American Academy of Religion and the Society for the Study of Theology (UK). He has also been a participant at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study. Aside from his academic work, Atkinson enjoys spending time with his family, playing music (banjo, mandolin, and guitar), and trail running.
Dr. Adam Pryor is currently Assistant Professor of Religion and Director of the Varenhorst Center for Discovery, Reflection, and Vocation at Bethany College in Lindsborg, KS. He earned his B.A. in Religion and Philosophy at Lenoir-Rhyne University (2005), an M.Div. at Princeton Theological Seminary (2008), and a Ph.D. in Systematic and Philosophical Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA (2012). Pryor's primary areas of research interest include the intersection of theology and science, phenomenologies of the body, interfaith dialogue, and feminist theology. His dissertation, The God Who Lives (Pickwick Publications, 2014), was an exploration of the intersection between contemporary models for the emergence of life and the Christian understanding of what it means to claim that 'God is living.' With Carol Jacobson of Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary he has recently edited a forthcoming volume on the work of the theologian Ted Peters entitled Back to God's Future (Lutheran University Press, forthcoming 2015).
The Very Rev. Benjamin Thomas, ThD, is Dean of Christ Cathedral, Salina, KS, Episcopal Diocese of Western Kansas, and a faculty member of the Bishop Kemper School for Ministry, where he teaches biblical hermeneutics and sacramental theology. Fr. Thomas's dissertation, "An Anglican Hermeneutic of the Transfiguration" was published by Peter-Lang in 2013. His other published works include journal articles in patristics and several sermons."
Dr. Adam Pryor is currently Assistant Professor of Religion and Director of the Varenhorst Center for Discovery, Reflection, and Vocation at Bethany College in Lindsborg, KS. He earned his B.A. in Religion and Philosophy at Lenoir-Rhyne University (2005), an M.Div. at Princeton Theological Seminary (2008), and a Ph.D. in Systematic and Philosophical Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA (2012). Pryor's primary areas of research interest include the intersection of theology and science, phenomenologies of the body, interfaith dialogue, and feminist theology. His dissertation, The God Who Lives (Pickwick Publications, 2014), was an exploration of the intersection between contemporary models for the emergence of life and the Christian understanding of what it means to claim that 'God is living.' With Carol Jacobson of Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary he has recently edited a forthcoming volume on the work of the theologian Ted Peters entitled Back to God's Future (Lutheran University Press, forthcoming 2015).
The Very Rev. Benjamin Thomas, ThD, is Dean of Christ Cathedral, Salina, KS, Episcopal Diocese of Western Kansas, and a faculty member of the Bishop Kemper School for Ministry, where he teaches biblical hermeneutics and sacramental theology. Fr. Thomas's dissertation, "An Anglican Hermeneutic of the Transfiguration" was published by Peter-Lang in 2013. His other published works include journal articles in patristics and several sermons."