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Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010

11:00 am – 2:00 pm

Lunch is included. $5.00

Bethania Lutheran Church

Fireside Room

603 Atterdag Rd, Solvang, CA 93463

The REV. TED PETERS, Ph.D. is a pastor in the ELCA and serves as Professor of Systematic Theology at Pacific Lutheran Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He edits Dialog, A Journal of Theology and co-edits Theology and Science. He is author of GOD—The World’s Future (Fortress 2000) and Playing God? Genetic Determinism and Human Freedom (Routledge 2002), Evolution from Creation to New Creation (Abingdon Press 2003) as well as his most recent book Can You Believe in God and Evolution? A Guide for the Perplexed (Abingdon Press, July 1, 2006). He currently serves on the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (Prop. 71) working group for Scientific and Medical Standards Accountability.

Nov. 5-6, 2010 
at Bethania Lutheran Church

Paul in Two Worlds
A Jew and a Christian Talk 
about the Apostle

Stephen J. Patterson & Pamela Eisenbaum

The Apostle Paul was the first Christian theologian but he was not a Christian. He was a Jew. Christians revere (and sometimes revile) him but do they really know this figure who stands in two worlds? Pamela Eisenbaum will examine how placing Paul in his own Jewish world makes a difference in how one understands him. Stephen Patterson will ask how insights like Eisenbaum’s change the way Christians view the apostle, and maybe even their faith.

LECTURE

Stephen Patterson
The Jesus Seminar Takes on Paul
Patterson will introduce the work of the Jesus Seminar on Christian Origins, and some of the big ideas that have changed the way scholars look at Paul.  Can we find something new in this ancient, enigmatic apostle?

Friday, 7:30–9 P.M.

WORKSHOPS

Pamela Eisenbaum       
The Paul I Know: A Jewish Evaluation
Eisenbaum will draw from her new book, Paul Was Not a Christian, to show how getting early Judaism right can help us get the apostle right.

Saturday, 9:30–10:30 A.M

Stephen Patterson        
The Paul I Know: A Protestant Lament
Patterson reflects on how Christians, especially Protestant Christians, came to misread Paul so badly.

Saturday, 11 A.M. –NOON

Eisenbaum/Patterson    
Can We Talk About Paul: Paul in a Pluralistic Age
Eisenbaum and Patterson talk about what a new understanding of Paul might mean for Jews and Christians living in a religiously plural age.

Saturday, 1:30–2:30 P.M.

Eisenbaum/Patterson    
Your Turn: Q/A on Paul
Our scholars take your questions and go deeper.

Saturday, 3–4 P.M.

FACULTY

Pamela Eisenbaum is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies and Christian Origins at Iliff School of Theology in Denver.  One of four Jewish New Testament scholars teaching in Christian theological schools, she is pioneering a new Jewish look at Paul.  Her latest book is Paul Was Not a Christian (Harper, 2010).

Stephen Patterson isGeo. H. Atkinson Professor of Religious and Ethical Studies at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, and chair of the Jesus Seminar on Christian Origins.  His latest book is Beyond the Passion: Rethinking the Death and Life of Jesus (Fortress, 2004).

For registration fees and information, please visit  http://www.westarinstitute.org/Events/JSORs/solvang2010.html

Please note: Solvang hosts the Solvang Prelude, a popular bike event, on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010.  Many motels will be occupied on Nov. 5th & 6th.  Be sure to find lodging early.  Pea Soup Andersen's Inn (http://www.peasoupandersens.com/) in Buellton has a block of 10 rooms reserved for Nov. 5th and 6th for JSotR attendees.  Each room is $117.90 plus tax.  These rooms will be held until Oct. 5, 2010.  The block is reserved under Bethania Lutheran Church.

You may also go to www.solvangusa.com for other motel arrangements. 

 

"FROM POSTURED UNITY TO REAL DIVERSITY"
Presented by Dr. James M. Robinson
Professor of Religion Emeritus
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California




Lecture 1 (9:00 - 10:15 am)
Trajectories - Are We Jesus People or Pauline Christians?

10:15 -10:45 am Coffee

Lecture 2 (10:45 - 12 noon)
From Unity to Diversity - Reflections on Modern Biblical Scholarship and Its Future

12:00 noon - 1:30 pm Lunch Break (on your own)

Lecture 3 (1:30 - 2:45 pm)
Nag Hammadi - the Story

2:45 - 3:00 pm Coffee

Lecture 4 (3:00 - 4:00 pm)
Nag Hammadi - the Story Continued

About the Lecturer:

James M. Robinson (Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary; D.Theol., University of Basel) is the Director Emeritus of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity and Professor of Religion Emeritus at Claremont Graduate University. He was honored as a Fulbright Scholar, American Council of Learned Societies Fellow and American Association of Theological Schools Fellow at the University of Heidelberg. The editor of The Sayings Gospel Q in Greek and English (2002), The Critical Edition of Q (2000), and author of Trajectories Through Early Christianity (1971, with Helmut Koester) and A New Quest of the Historical Jesus (1959), he is best known for his work on the Nag Hammadi Codices and as the General Editor of The Nag Hammadi Library in English (1977).

Academic Credentials
* B. A., Davidson College
* B. D., Columbia Theological Seminary
* D. Theol., University of Basel
* Ph. D., Princeton Theological Seminary

"What is the Jesus Seminar?" - Dr. Lane McGaughy
May 23, 2010



Dr. Lane McGaughy, one of the original members of the Jesus Seminar will give a free special talk on "What is the Jesus Seminar?" Come and join us and ask any question you ever wanted to know about the Jesus Seminar starting at 11 am.

Lane McGaughy is the Geo. H. Atkinson Professor of Religious and Ethical Studies emeritus at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. The Chair of Polebridge Press, Dr. McGaughy serves on the Board of Directors of Westar Institute. He is the author of two books on New Testament Greek and numerous scholarly articles. The former president and executive secretary of the Pacific Northwest Region of the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature, he has worked with his mentor, Robert W. Funk, on a series of projects, including a Greek grammar, the establishment of the Religious Studies Department at the University of Montana, the founding of Scholars Press, the development of Polebridge Press and Westar Institute, and the reorganization of the Society of Biblical Literature. Dr. McGaughy is an ordained United Methodist minister.

Academic Credentials

• A.B., Ohio Wesleyan University
• B.D., Drew Theological Seminary
• M.A., Vanderbilt University

Ph.D., Vanderbilt University