Sam
talks about the Bible Scholarship class beginning this Sunday - Below are
my notes and the news release – The audio of the program is attached.
Goal
– Deliver curriculum that clergy must master in seminary to the person in the
pew. Princeton, Harvard and Yale were all founded by churches and have
highly regarded seminaries to this day. My own denomination is heavily
connected to Princeton Theological Seminary and the current pastor at Moorings
is a Princeton graduate. Attempting to provide a postgraduate seminary
curriculum to the congregation might seem impossible but Theological Center in
Naples has been doing just that for at least two decades.
Modern
Biblical scholarship uses all of the modern sciences. Archeology, astronomy,
physics (carbon 14 dating, creation myths and astrophysics), linguistics,
history, critical literary analysis, numismatics, biology including DNA
analysis of scrolls made out of animal skins. I will keep the focus and
the academic rather than the religious which is what the subject is really all
about.
For those of you who worship on Saturdays, or are free by 11:15
on Sundays…
W
Free Adult Education
Opportunity
beginning Sunday October 4th
11:15 to noon – followed by Q & A
(childcare provided)
The Theological
Center in Naples invites you to attend a Sunday Morning
Ongoing Biblical
Exploration Class
starting with
Genesis, led by Sam and Bunny Sewell
What
is Biblical Exploration? It is not a devotional Bible Study,
but
rather an academic study of the historical writings of various theologically
diverse biblical scholars (evangelicals, Catholics, mainline protestants,
Jewish academics and secular historians.)
What
Text is used for this study? The primary source for this extensive
curriculum is the twelve volume Interpreter’s Bible. Each volume of this
series, used for study/discussion, covers two or more books of the Old and New
Testaments, and is a study resource found in the Moorings Church Strozier
Library. Bring your Bible.
Facilitators Sam and Bunny Sewell have offered their
training and knowledge to the public
for more than two decades. Rev. Sam is President of the
Theological Center in Naples.
Classes (free to the public) are held each Sunday in the Strozier Library
on
the Moorings Church Campus,
791
Harbour Dr, 1 block west of 41
Register by contacting the Sewells
Thanks for helping us spread the word!
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