Opening the Scripures for Lent: Setting our Hearts on Fire course
The course will be held on Candlemas Day (The Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple) when the church’s year shifts from reflecting on the birth and Epiphany of Jesus Christ to prepare for Lent and Eastertide. It will seek to offer an overview of the whole biblical story through addressing key biblical themes: God’s powerful elusiveness; God’s ‘with-ness’; God’s face, peace and reconciliation; joy and sorrow, laughter and weeping; suffering and passion; exploring how these themes which can be discovered in the Book of Genesis are re-visited again and again in the pages of scripture in ways that inspire and exhilarate us and are fundamental to the relationship between God and humanity.
We will take our starting-point from the comment made by the disciples who journeyed with Jesus on the road to Emmaus, ‘Did not our hearts burn within us as he was opening the scriptures to us?’ and explore what biblical passages set our own hearts on fire.
The material for the day will be based on and resourced by a well-received Lent course written by Clare for Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI) 2020.
Canon Dr Clare Amos was formed as a biblical scholar by the decade she spent living in the Middle East. She has taught both biblical studies and interreligious concerns in a variety of contexts, Anglican and ecumenical, UK based and international. Her most recent full time post before her retirement was as head of the interreligious office at the World Council of Chuches, Geneva. She currently acts as honorary Director of Lay Discipleship in the Diocese in Europe .
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