Elaine Pagels - Why Religion? Interfaith Academic Conference - Panel discussion
On October 30, 2019, we hosted Dr. Elaine Pagels as the featured speaker at our annual interfaith academic conference.
She gave two lectures, the first being "What do 'secret gospels' suggest about Jesus and his teaching?" ( / zaq8dsxdxq ) which was followed by a Panel discussion with Robert Van Voorst, Professor Emeritus of Western Theological Seminary, Sheldon Kopperl, Professor Emeritus, GVSU, Diane Madoush-Pitzer, Professor of Religious studies, GVSU with Douglas Kindschi, Kaufman Interfaith Institute's director, moderating. The panel discussion is viewable here: • Elaine Pagels - Why Re...
The evening session was a conversation between Dr. Pagels and Calvin University's Frans van Liere which focused on her latest book, "Why Religion: A Personal Story" in which she reflects on the persistence and nature of belief and why religion matters in the wake of her own great personal tragedy: the death of her young son, followed a year later by the shocking loss of her husband. The evening session is available here: • Elaine Pagels - Why Re...
Dr. Pagels is an American religion historian. She is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Pagels conducted extensive research into early Christianity and Gnosticism as a part of her graduate study at Harvard University. Her best-selling book The Gnostic Gospels examines the divisions in the early Christian church, and the way women were viewed throughout Jewish and Christian history. Modern Library named it as one of the 100 best books of the twentieth century.
In 2001, Sylvia Kaufman brought together a group called the West Michigan Academic Consortium in order to extend the work of the West Shore Committee for Jewish-Christian Dialogue and the Kaufman Interfaith Institute. The mission of these groups is to provide programming that leads to greater interfaith understanding and mutual acceptance.
The committee consists of representatives from Aquinas College, Calvin College, Calvin Theological Seminary, Cornerstone University, Grand Valley State University, Hope College, Kuyper College and Western Theological Seminary. They jointly choose the speakers and plan the conferences; the participating schools rotate hosting the conferences.
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Religion is man made but the truth of life is not. 🙏
Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful panel discussion along with the other video of Dr. Pagel's talk. It's of great value to me and I hope more people will find it and listen as well.
@grinterfaith
4 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it. Elaine is great!
I read many books about theology and the history of religion. That that central preoccupation with those who founded the “Church”-and those who have maintained it since then-is “power” and “authority”, should tell you everything you need to know about Christianity and the “Church”.
Elaine doesn't pray, she listens to music. How wonderful! Unfortunately, the Bible is not available on Spotify.
I have a feeling that this kind of spiritual knowledge was never meant to be discovered by academics but by a different approach entirely. Jesus said.. "Unless you become as little children.. "
@Lealea883
2 ай бұрын
Well the fact is we aren’t little children and we can’t be if we are to exist in this world. We must always seek the truth not bury our heads and hide from it
@retribution999
2 ай бұрын
@@Lealea883 only by becoming as children can we discover the truth.
I can't help wondering whether the right brain is helpful in making Gospel of Thomas more readable. Thinking also of Saying 22. Elaine Pagels brought me out of a fret and back into the light. Thank you all.
Great last question!
Better listen to it.
It's been suggested by biblical scholars that more readers should read gospels "horizontally", comparing similarities, contradictions, interpretations between gospels. Early church did themselves great harm when rejecting various writings. Censorship seldom adds to historical understanding.
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1) Happy to you see you defending the Talmud (yet again) 2) The Gospel of Thomas has little to do with Genesis. That's just your silly perverse fantasy. 3) The light refers to FOS or Fotios.
WOW, HAVE YOU COUNTED THE NUMBER OF TIMES YOU DROP THE NAMES OF OXFORD, CAMBRIDGE AND THE IVY LEAGUE UNIVERSITIES? You are constantly using names of famous institutions to defend you dribble. Very tacky, I think.
It's not very attractive to kowtow to a Jew about a Gospel. Poor form!