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Farstrup-Mortensen Lectures Presents
Dr. Ted Peters
"Evolution and the Bible"

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.
Previous Lectures...
RELIGION AND
CHANGE, PART II, Saturday, July 24,
2010
Farstrup-Mortensen Lecture Series
presents Summer Mind Exercises:
"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
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