Mar 03
| May 10, 2008 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
Please join us for our monthly moot at The George Hotel in Torrisholme from 7.30pm onwards with this months event starting at 8pm.
This month we have a guest, Sean O’Callaghan who is doing his Phd about Christian Missionaries and what they learnt from the non-Christian societies they came across. More on the details of the talk when he lets us know :o)
Everyone is welcome, regardless of tradition, faith or path and we always enjoy seeing new faces.
To cover costs we do ask for an entrance fee of £2 waged, £1 unwaged.
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May 5th, 2008 at 12:38 am
Next week is going to be good :o)
Sean will be looking at “the changing way in which Christian theology is viewing paganism and at what is called ‘The re-enchantment of the West’, where Christian theology is having to get to grips with new spiritualities and new expressions of old spiritualities, and how it is attempting to do that.”
See you all there :o)
May 27th, 2008 at 8:03 am
Sean was a great speaker, and his talk was superb. It certainly proved enlightening and interesting and it was great that the Moot attendees all seemed to be similarly engaged enough to ask questions and enter into debate! Thanks Sean! x
May 27th, 2008 at 10:27 am
It was a fantastic talk - why Sean was nervous, I have no idea - our biggest problem was trying to get to the end of the talk because we all had so many questions to ask - He definitely needs to come and talk to us again
June 18th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
I thought the talk was going to be more anecdotal on ‘Christian Missionaries and what they learnt from the non-Christian societies they came across’ i.e. what specific missionaries learnt from their experiences in specific societies, how it changed them and perhaps their beliefs, their values, or their way of life. I hadn’t read the newer description of the talk that Willow gives above, about changing theological approaches, which is exactly what we got, and was very interesting, perhaps just as interesting as what I was expecting.
I was particularly interested in what he shared with us about the ‘Kendal Project’ done via Lancaster University’s Religious Studies Department, studying various expressions of new and alternative spiritualities there as a representative small North Western town. Not sure how representative it is actually in this regard but it was very interesting!