Current Faith & Life Discussion Groups
Fall 2008
Viewing the 'Greats': A Movie Discussion Group
The Matthew/Biblical Reasoning Discussion Group
Biblical Manuduction Reading Discussion Group
Viewing the 'Greats': A Movie Discussion Group
Facilitator: Drew Trotter
Location: The home of Drew Trotter, 1530 Rugby Avenue
Meeting dates & time: monthly, Tuesdays; Click here for dates and movie titles
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Description: The power of movies to affect our culture is unquestioned. And everyone loves to talk about movies. These two facts force Christians to ask questions of the films they watch. This discussion group will view films from the list developed by the American Film Institute in 1996 of the 100 greatest films in American movie history and explore their messages in a stimulating atmosphere of frank conversation. Our goal will be to achieve a better understanding of our culture and the forces shaping it as we discuss the impact and implications of "great" movies on our lives.
This discussion group is open to all who are interested.
Please contact Drew Trotter at drew@studycenter.net for more information about this Discussion Group.
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The Matthew/Biblical Reasoning Discussion Group
Facilitator: Jacob Goodson, Ph.D. candidate, Religious Studies
Location: Center for Christian Study, 128 Chancellor Street
Meeting dates & time: Every other week
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Description: This group will read and discuss the Gospel of Matthew, studying chapter and verse with pre-modern commentators and 20th-century scholars. For the schedule and more information about this study approach, please see biblicalmanuduction.ning.com.
Please contact Jacob Goodson at Splintered Light Bookstore, byron@splinteredlightbooks.com, or call (434) 296-3977, for more information about this Discussion Group.
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Biblical Manuduction Reading Discussion Group
Facilitator: Jacob Goodson, Ph.D. candidate, Religious Studies
Location: Center for Christian Study
Meeting dates & time: Every other week
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Description: This group will start with Peter M. Candler Jr.'s Theology, Rhetoric, Manuduction, or Reading Scripture Together on the Path to God and then move on through works by Stanley Hauerwas, Pope Benedict XVI, D.H. Williams, Joseph Fitzmyer, and N.T. Wright. The group will meet every other week opposite the Matthew group, described above.
Please contact Jacob Goodson at Splintered Light Bookstore, byron@splinteredlightbooks.com, or call (434) 296-3977, for more information about this Discussion Group.
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