Let Loose: Creativity and Impairment
Sarum College impairment and spirituality team
Friday 12 March- Sunday 14 March
Following two successful conferences on spirituality and impairment, we are now offering a weekend of creative discovery for people with impairment and the carers.
Contact Alison Ogden for more information: 01722 424826 or aogden@sarum.ac.uk
TQQ: Week 20: ‘Jesus lives!’
David Catchpole
Tuesday, 16 March 2010 7pm to 9pm
Contrary to all their expectations, this is what the followers of Jesus found themselves saying a few days after his devastating and dishonourable death. We examine what it was that stimulated such a mind-blowing claim. Was it an unoccupied tomb? Was it post mortem sightings that were unlike any other such experiences in the lives of the recently bereaved? There is a lot to think through here.
Fee: £6 per session. Full course details
Holy Week at Sarum
Michael DeLashmutt, Keith Lamdin, Patrick Moore, Barbara Mosse, Mairead Quigley
29 March to 4 April 2010
Days of reflection in the Cathedral Close.
Guests are welcome to stay in the College and enrol in any day of reflection.
Follow the link below for details.
Religion & Arts in Britain: 1901-1939 (Term 3)
John Elliott and guest lecturers
Mondays 7 pm to 9 pm
Plus Saturday visits
12 April to 28 June excl 3 & 31 May 2010
This three-term course explores the linkages between religion and its expression in the arts – painting, architecture, music and literature – from the start of industrialisation to the eve of WWII. The course will raise questions such as: How did the Pre-Raphaelites express their religious ideas in their art? Did Victorian literature have a religious focus? What impact did the Great War have on the art that emerged from the trenches?
£49.50 per term
£135 for all three terms if booked by the end of September
Pray Without Ceasing: The Liturgy of the Hours
Patricia Rumsey and Juliette Day
15 to 16 April
Christians interpret the command to pray without ceasing in many different ways, in lives of active service or of continual meditation or in a combined lifestyle with frequent times of prayer.
The most enduring pattern in Christian history is the Liturgy of the Hours and in 24 hours together, the group will learn about their origins and content while praying the full cycle.
Singing With Confidence
Ruth Lamdin
17 to 18 April 2010
Whether you only sing on your own in order to avoid criticism, or in a choir or in the pub, but hope you won't stand out, this weekend is for you.
Singing, like writing or playing tennis, is as much a matter of skill as anything else. The more we understand how our voices work and practice good vocal technique, the more confident we will become.
During the weekend we will exercise all the parts of us that contribute to good singing. Above all, we will have fun singing together.
(Please note there is only one place left as of 22 February)
Biblical Study Breaks: Acts of the Apostles: Jesus, the Church and the Churches
Michael DeLashmutt and David Holgate
19 to 22 April 2010
An opportunity to be guided through a whole book of the Holy Scriptures by outstanding scholars.
Each course begins on Monday afternoon at 2.00pm and finishes at 2.00pm on Thursday (no evening sessions).
TQQ: Week 21: Paul (1)
David Catchpole
Tuesday, 20 April 2010 7pm to 9pm
Weeks 21 & 22 introduce Paul by relating him to developments within the early Christian movement, in which setting his initial Damascus Road experience took place. Was this experience a ‘conversion’ or a ‘call’? The search for reliable source material on Paul means checking up on Acts. How much does he know about, or feel any interest in, Jesus of Nazareth, given that he so rarely quotes him?
Fee: £6 per session. Full course details
Sarum Arts Lectures
John Elliott, Dalila Castelign
21 April, 28 April, 5 May, 19 May, 26May
Sarum Arts Annual Lecture Series
The History of Art: A Visual Excursion
This lecture series is a joint venture with the Fezeka Scholarship Fund, a Salisbury-based charity which helps fund the further education of economically disadvantaged South African students, most of whom come from the Fezeka High School in Gugulethu township near Cape Town.
This lecture series is a joint venture with the Fezeka Scholarship Fund, a Salisbury-based charity which helps fund the further education of economically disadvantaged South African students, most of whom come from the Fezeka High School in Gugulethu township near Cape Town.
Continuing the Journey
Dr Susan Stephenson, Sr Mairead Quigley, Br Patrick Moore, Rev Barbara Mosse
22 April 2010, 13 May 2010, 10 June 2010, and 8 July 2010.
Participants in The Heart of the Divine have asked for further opportunities to explore themes in Christian spirituality.
Continuing the Journey provides this
opportunity for further and deeper reflection on the riches of the Christian spiritual tradition. Taking our bearings from those who have journeyed before us we shall be asking what we can learn from their lives and writings to help us negotiate the terrain of the contemporary spiritual landscape.
The course comprises four days on different aspects of Christian spirituality. Each day will include input from experienced speakers on a particular theme, linking key aspects of the Christian tradition to today’s spiritual quest. As with
The Heart of the Divine there will be an emphasis on blending academic learning and personal experience.
Days of Reflection: Thomas Merton
Sr Mairead
23 April 2010
Sr. Mairead will help you to discover, or rediscover, how to use the time for prayer and reflection, both on the day and at other times.
With the help of these masters of the Spiritual Life we will spend each day in meditation, prayer, reflection and silence to help us deepen our life hidden with Christ in God.
TQQ: Week 22: Paul (2)
David Catchpole
Tuesday, 27 April 2010 7pm to 9pm
Weeks 21 & 22 introduce Paul by relating him to developments within the early Christian movement, in which setting his initial Damascus Road experience took place. Was this experience a ‘conversion’ or a ‘call’? The search for reliable source material on Paul means checking up on Acts. How much does he know about, or feel any interest in, Jesus of Nazareth, given that he so rarely quotes him?
Fee: £6 per session. Full course details
Wisdom: Christian Learning and Contemporary Challenges
Jeremy Begbie, Michael DeLashmutt, David Ford, Graham Howes, Anthony Thiselton
Saturday, 1 May to Sunday 2 May
Registration begins at 9.30am; the first session begins at 10.30am
Wisdom is both a private and a public aspect of the Christian faith and practice. Privately, wisdom can be associated with spirituality and mysticism, and sought through music, the arts, or meditation. Publicly, wisdom can be associated with the communication of divine truths sought through study and contemplation. Holy Scripture compels us to follow after and cherish wisdom and to see her as a spiritual gift or a divine virtue.
By calling upon a host of international scholars from a range of traditions within the Christian Church, this symposium will consider the multifaceted role played by wisdom within Christian thought and practice and reflect on ways in which wisdom can inform the mission of the Christian churches today. Our purpose in organising such a wide symposium on wisdom is to carefully discern how wisdom can help our churches to interrelate theology, spirituality, Christian practice.
TQQ: Week 23: Paul (3)
David Catchpole
Tuesday, 4 May 2010 7pm to 9pm
Weeks 23 & 24 are shaped by the revolution in Pauline studies brought about by the work of E P Sanders in 1977. So the problem of misinterpretations of Paul, grounded in misunderstandings of Palestinian Judaism, is tackled, and the reasons for such mistaken perspectives on both sought. The implications for our own work on Paul, Judaism and law are spelt out, and on that basis a full study of the subject of Paul’s great slogan: ‘… a person is justified not by works of the law but by (the) faith in (of) Jesus Christ’. This takes us into the debate since the publication of Sanders’ book and raises vital issues for the contemporary debate between Christians and Jews.
Fee: £6 per session. Full course details
TQQ: Week 24: Paul (4)
David Catchpole
Tuesday, 11 May 2010 7pm to 9pm
Weeks 23 & 24 are shaped by the revolution in Pauline studies brought about by the work of E P Sanders in 1977. So the problem of misinterpretations of Paul, grounded in misunderstandings of Palestinian Judaism, is tackled, and the reasons for such mistaken perspectives on both sought. The implications for our own work on Paul, Judaism and law are spelt out, and on that basis a full study of the subject of Paul’s great slogan: ‘… a person is justified not by works of the law but by (the) faith in (of) Jesus Christ’. This takes us into the debate since the publication of Sanders’ book and raises vital issues for the contemporary debate between Christians and Jews.
Fee: £6 per session. Full course details
Biblical Study Breaks: Exodus
Graham Davies
17 to 20 May 2010
An opportunity to be guided through a whole book of the Holy Scriptures by outstanding scholars.
Each course begins on Monday afternoon at 2.00pm and finishes at 2.00pm on Thursday (no evening sessions).
TQQ: Week 25: Paul (5)
David Catchpole
Tuesday, 18 May 2010 7pm to 9pm
Weeks 25 & 26 are concerned with Paul’s view of the person of Christ, and how the death and resurrection are understood to bring one world to an end and to open up a new one. We pause over the topic of the Lordship of Jesus, and the implications of the term ‘in Christ’. As a necessary context for such ideas, Paul’s understanding of the plight of humankind, his convictions about a transfer from one world to another, and his sense of the need to redefine ‘the people of God’, are outlined.
Fee: £6 per session. Full course details
The Christian Year
Dr Juliette Day
24 to 27 May 2010
This module will explore the development and contemporary celebration of Christian feasts through an analysis of their historical origins and changes, their theological and ritual meaning, and recent liturgical reforms. The implications for pastoral and liturgical practice in local churches will be drawn out in discussion..
This is a Christian Liturgy MA module open to non-MA students so places are limited.
Contemporary Spirituality
Sarum College academic staff and associate tutors
24 to 27 May
An analysis of recent developments in contemporary spirituality, particularly in light of vvarious writing on the 'spirituality revolution'across a range of disciplines. Authors and texts will be studied from both Christian and non-Christian traditions in order to gain a broader perspective on the spiritual quest in the contemporary context.
TQQ: Week 26: Paul (6)
David Catchpole
Tuesday, 25 May 2010 7pm to 9pm
Weeks 25 & 26 are concerned with Paul’s view of the person of Christ, and how the death and resurrection are understood to bring one world to an end and to open up a new one. We pause over the topic of the Lordship of Jesus, and the implications of the term ‘in Christ’. As a necessary context for such ideas, Paul’s understanding of the plight of humankind, his convictions about a transfer from one world to another, and his sense of the need to redefine ‘the people of God’, are outlined.
Fee: £6 per session. Full course details
Walking The Walk with Those Close To Death
Sister Frances Dominica and the Revd Mark Birch
29 to 30 May
In a culture that tends towards specialisation and professionalization, it is easy to feel de-skilled and inadequate when it comes to simply being a good neighbour to those who ‘walk in the valley of the shadow of death’.
Sister Frances Dominica and the Revd Mark Birch will be talking of their experience of supporting children, young adults and their families at Helen and Douglas House in Oxford at every stage of the journey – through progressive illness, death and the years that follow.
TQQ: Week 27: Paul (7)
David Catchpole
Tuesday, 1 June 2010 7pm to 9pm
Weeks 27 & 28 turn from primarily (though not exclusively) Romans/Galatians-oriented studies to the evidence of the letters to Corinth. This encourages a study of the interaction of the Pauline gospel with Greco-Roman, rather than primarily Jewish, culture, social patterns and religions. The bruta facta of chaotic church life in the city of Corinth mean that the work of the Spirit, and the ethical outworking of Paul’s theology, become major issues. Test cases – sexual morality and obedience to the state – are discussed. We try to decide about Paul’s interaction with the society in which he lived – was it affirming, antagonistic or ambivalent?
Fee: £6 per session. Full course details
Ivy House Retreat
Sarum College ecumenical team
7 to 12 June
Five night individually guided retreat at Ivy House in Warminster.
TQQ: Week 28: Paul (8)
David Catchpole
Tuesday, 8 June 2010 7pm to 9pm
Weeks 27 & 28 turn from primarily (though not exclusively) Romans/Galatians-oriented studies to the evidence of the letters to Corinth. This encourages a study of the interaction of the Pauline gospel with Greco-Roman, rather than primarily Jewish, culture, social patterns and religions. The bruta facta of chaotic church life in the city of Corinth mean that the work of the Spirit, and the ethical outworking of Paul’s theology, become major issues. Test cases – sexual morality and obedience to the state – are discussed. We try to decide about Paul’s interaction with the society in which he lived – was it affirming, antagonistic or ambivalent?
Fee: £6 per session. Full course details
Childhood and Spirituality
Mervyn Davies and Rebecca Nye
9 to 11 June
This conference will introduce participants to ideas about spirituality in childhood, looking particularly at the role and importance of play.
Icon Workshop
Dr Andreas Andreopoulos
12 June, 12.15 to 5.30pm
This is part of our Pastoral Liturgy Programme, which is designed to provide ordained and lay ministers and their congregations opportunities to learn more about different aspects of Christian Worship in order to promote liturgical renewal. Experienced and knowledgeable speakers will help participants gain practical liturgical skills and develop their theological understanding of Christian worship.
TQQ: Week 29: Paul (9)
David Catchpole
Tuesday, 15 June 2010 7pm to 9pm
Week 29 is entitled: ‘What is the heart of Paul’s theology?’ This entails concentration on his views about the future: his perspectives on God’s long-term programme, including the ‘return’ of Christ, the general resurrection, and (in the light of Paul’s redefinition of ‘the people of God’) the prospects for Israel.
Fee: £6 per session. Full course details
Green Faith
Sarum College academic staff and associate tutors
Monday 21 June to Thursday 24 June 2010
Beginning with an analysis of the contemporary environmental context, the course looks at the connections between ecology and spirituality. Noting that the ecological dimension has been a ‘lost dimension’ from mainstream Christian tradition, the emphasis is on recovering and discovering resources for inspiring new attitudes for the contemporary context, linking prayer, praxis and lifestyle.
TQQ: Week 30: Paul (10)
David Catchpole
Tuesday, 22 June 2010 7pm to 9pm
The final session is devoted to the Pauline heritage in the last third of the first century CE. Many specialists doubt whether Ephesians and the letters to Timothy and Titus were written by Paul himself. They may or may not be right. But, if that were so, it would not make them less interesting. Actually, they become even more interesting as evidence of how Paul’s legacy was preserved or adjusted in the next generation. So we look at how Ephesians treats the Church, and how the ‘pastoral’ letters treat the ministry.
Fee: £6 per session. Full course details
Heart of the Divine
Patrick Moore, Barbara Mosse, Mairead Quigley, Susan Stephenson
Once-monthly sessions on Thursdays, beginning 21 October 2010
One of the most exciting, and some would say, surprising developments of recent years has been the re-emergence of spirituality as a major force in social and personal understanding of the world.
The Heart of the Divine course explores Spiritual formation within the Christian tradition and its relevance to today. Open to seekers of all traditions, this ecumenical course is ideal for those who wish to deepen their understanding of Christian Spirituality.
Biblical Study Breaks: Matthew
David Catchpole
15 to 18 November 2010
An opportunity to be guided through a whole book of the Holy Scriptures by outstanding scholars.
Each course begins on Monday afternoon at 2.00pm and finishes at 2.00pm on Thursday (no evening sessions).
Wisdom Symposium, 1 to 2 May 2010
Sarum College's international symposium will consider the multifaceted role played by wisdom within Christian thought and practice and reflect on ways in which wisdom can inform the mission of the Christian churches today. Our purpose in organising such an event is to carefully discern how wisdom can help our churches to interrelate theology, spirituality and Christian practice.
Special Events Celebrate 150/15 Anniversary
The College is hosting a number of events to celebrate 150 years of theological education and 15 years since the founding of Sarum College as an ecumenical centre for Christian research and study.