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A Book Group Exploring the Diversity of Religion

WHAT:  Learning Circle

WHEN:March 6th, 2023 thru March 27th, 2023
Mondays at 8:30 AM Pacific / 10:30 AM Central

WHERE:  Online Via Zoom

Readings on Faiths Around the World is a book group that reads and discusses books covering the vast diversity of world faiths. Of course, the standard seven world religions will be included but we will also explore less well-known religious/spiritual groups including Afro-Caribbean, Bahá’í, Humanist, Jain, Pagan, Zoroastrian, and more. The only prerequisite needed for this group is a desire to learn more about the world’s religious traditions.

Beginning Monday, March 6th and ending March 27th we will read and discuss Karen Armstrong’s book Buddha together. The group will meet weekly online via Zoom at 8:30 AM Pacific / 10:30 AM Central.

Author of numerous books on world religions, Karen Armstrong’s biography of the Buddha, is not a traditional biography in the western sense.  “Armstrong blends history, philosophy, mythology, and biography to” tell the story of Siddhatta Gotama.  As Armstrong writes, “It is … true that the people of North India were not interested in history in our (western) sense:  they were more concerned about the meaning of historical events.”

Future books to be discussed, and dates will be provided here as the sessions are scheduled.

Beginning Thursday, January 19th and ending March 2nd, we will read and discuss Bart D. Ehrman's How Jesus Became God together. The group will meet weekly online via Zoom at 8:30 AM Pacific / 10:30 AM Central.

Ehrman is a biblical scholar and author of over twenty books and is professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In this book, he discusses the claim made by Christians that Jesus of Nazareth was and is God. His original disciples did not believe this during Jesus’ lifetime – and it is not what Jesus claimed about himself. So how did “Jesus become God”?

 

Future books to be discussed, and dates will be provided here as the sessions are scheduled.

About the Facilitator

Terry-Goddard

Terry Goddard has a PhD from Chicago Theological Seminary in the history of religion. He taught world history and world religions for a number of years. Terry writes a blog, many of which address Eiseley and his thought. Terry is also a member of the Cobb Institute board of directors, overseeing the Educational Development group.

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