Mondays 2:30 – 4:30 PM
September 27 through November 8, 2004
D.O.C. House
(no class on October 25th)
Stirred by the events surrounding the first Easter Day, a movement developed. People came to believe that the man they had known as Jesus of Nazareth was indeed the Messiah. Their faith showed itself in different ways in different people and places, and from its earliest days the Christian church was a diverse institution, yet one with a unifying center. In the study we will examine the first one hundred years of the faith from the primary texts, biblical and other, using the tools of sociology and literary and historical analysis. This will permit us to follow some of the key movements and issues as they developed and interacted with each other and with the societies and religious forces around them.
Class is limited to 20 participants.
LES NORMAN graduated from Oxford University (1951) and Andover Newton Theological School (1992). From 1956, when he joined IBM (UK), he was employed in various aspects of the field of computer applications in Britain and the USA, to which he emigrated in 1969. He took early retirement from Digital Equipment Corporation in 1990 in order to complete his theological studies, and was ordained as pastor and teacher of Sanbornton Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, in 1992. He served in Sanbornton, NH until 2002, when he began a new life in New London.
