PCN Britain is delighted to welcome back to the UK Marcus Borg, author of the bestselling Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, The God We Never Knew, The Heart of Christianity and many other publications.
Professor David Catchpole will be leading the weekend with presentations and conversations concerning Jesus of Nazareth in 2010. In his own time Jesus was a figure of controversy, and where two or three Christians meet together they will probably argue about what may be said about him and the basis upon which anyone may say anything. We shall address some of the questions provoked by historical affirmations about him in the Christian creeds, and try to fill in some of the space left where those creeds say nothing at all. Finally, with an eye to the question of whether Jesus can be viewed as the founder of Christianity, we shall draw in a “theologically significant other”, and ask whether the religion of the carpenter’s son was truly that of the tentmaker Roman citizen, and vice versa.