VISION and Camp Talahi

VISION is partnering with several churches in the area to offer the Westar Institute Jesus Seminar March 28-29, 2008 at Peoples Church of East Lansing, 200 W. Grand River, East Lansing. 

Guest Speakers

Bernard Brandon Scott (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) is the Darbeth Distinguished Professor of New Testament at the Philips Theological Seminary, tulsa, OK.  He is the author of several books, including Hear Then the Parable (1989) and Re-Imagine the World (2002) , and editor of Jesus Reconsidered (2007).

Jarmo Tarkki (Ph.D., University of Helsinki) is Senior Pastor at Bethania Lutheran Church (ELCA) in Solvang, California.  he is Adunct Professor of Theology at California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, a Teaching Fellow in Philosophical Theology at the pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Berkely, and the author of numerous books and articles.

The theme is The Jesus in the First and Twenty-first Centuries

Bernard Brandon Scott will present a lecture From Nazareth to Nicea

Bernard Brandon Scott and Jarmo Tarkki will present workshops titled

The Jesus of the FIrst Century

The Ethics of Jesus

The Jesus of the Twenty-first Century

Click on the following link for complete information and registration

http://www.westarinstitute.org/Events/JSORs/EastLansing2008.html