Theology & Culture Short Courses in January 2013

    The Cosmic Christ

    The true significance of Jesus began to be explored by the early Christian church by identifying the earthly Jesus with the divine Logos spoken about in the prologue to John’s gospel. Here Jesus is understood as the pre-existent Second Person … Read more

    • Date & Time: Tuesday, 8 Jan 2013, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    • Tutor: Colin Greene

    Biblical Study Break: the Book of Job – God, Creation and Chaos

    The book of Job is a tantalising text which explores the fringes of canonical thought, asking disturbing questions about divine purpose and control and about the place of human beings in God’s world. It has provoked such a wide variety … Read more

    • Starts: Monday, 14 Jan 2013, 1:00 PM
    • Ends: Thursday, 17 Jan 2013, 2:00 PM
    • Tutor: John Bimson

    The Human Christ

    Is Jesus a real flesh and blood person with whom we can identify and follow as his contemporary disciples. Is this the only Jesus we need? Or is such a view of Jesus insufficient to both the task of Christian … Read more

    • Date & Time: Tuesday, 15 Jan 2013, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    • Tutor: Colin Greene

    The Political Christ

    What has devotion to Jesus got to do with politics? Should theology be identified with ideological concerns or political causes? What then do we mean by the political Jesus, and how can such a Jesus still be understood as the … Read more

    • Date & Time: Tuesday, 22 Jan 2013, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    • Tutor: Colin Greene

    Seeing Salvation – the Vision of Art

    As a way of linking the previous teaching on the identity of Christ with understandings of salvation, we consider how Christians have used art to depict what God is thought to have been doing in Jesus Christ. We ask what … Read more

    • Date & Time: Tuesday, 29 Jan 2013, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    • Tutor: John Elliott