Wednesdays 10-12 Noon
January 14 through March 3, 2004
D.O.C. House
You should not confine yourself to just one manner of devotion
Since God is to be found in no particular way.
That is why they do him wrong who take God in one particular way,
They take the way rather than God.
Meister Eckhart
The First Millennium AD was a time when for many, the way to God became more important than the God it was intended to serve. The way deemed correct could mean unparalleled power; other ways could mean marginalization, torture, or death.
Religion in Collision is a comparative religion course. It will be told by telling the history of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam during the thousand years following the biblical period. It will review dogmas and deeds, polemics and politics, their impact on one another and their impact on believers and non-believers. And to introduce a provocative note to an otherwise peaceful Upper Valley, it will consider politics and marketing as major factors behind the relative growth of the three religions.
Classes will combine lecture and discussion. Lectures will be illustrated with videos and overhead transparencies. Required reading: ten pages per week from a study guide prepared for the course. Optional reading: one chapter per week from Karen Armstrong's History of God.
Class is limited to 25 members.
Arthur Rosen is a graduate of Yale University, Brooklyn College, and the Columbia University, Graduate School of Business, Executive Marketing Program. Art spent most of his career in advertising with such companies as Benton & Bowles, Young & Rubicam, and Grey. He has been a frequent speaker at New England churches and schools, has led courses at Colby-Sawyer's Adventures in Learning, at Dartmouth's Roth Center where he is chairman of adult education, and at ILEAD, where he is chairman of the Curriculum Committee.
