SOT Events
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Screening and Discussion: The Penultimate Curiosity
Fuller Pasadena (Room: Payton 101) 135 N Oakland Ave, Pasadena, United StatesFuller's Science, Theology, and Religion office (STAR) is hosting a special film screening and discussion with two University of Oxford scholars on Wednesday, November 17, 2018 at Fuller's Pasadena campus. Fuller professors Kutter Callaway and Justin Barrett will moderate an interactive panel conversation with physicist Andrew Briggs and artist Roger Wagner about their book and project, The…
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Black Samson Goes to Hollywood
Payton Geneva 135 N. Oakland Ave., Pasadena, CA, United StatesJanuary 25, 2019 5:00 pm Geneva Room, Payton Hall Is Cleopatra Black? Is Jesus Black? Is Samson Black? And what is at stake in these questions of historical and literary representation? Based on their forthcoming book Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon (Oxford University Press), biblical scholars Nyasha Junior and Jeremy Schipper…
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The Fear of the Lord and Biblical Ethics
Payton Geneva 135 N. Oakland Ave., Pasadena, CA, United StatesFebruary 22, 2019 5:00 pm Geneva Room, Payton Hall Many Christians today emphasize the centrality of love in the Bible. Love dominates not only discussions of God’s saving actions but also human responses to God and neighbor. While love certainly is an important biblical idea, the Bible frequently uses a very different emotion in these…
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God and Guns: A Public Roundtable Discussion
Travis Auditorium 180 N. Oakland Avenue, Pasadena, CA, United StatesMarch 15, 2019 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Travis Auditorium Six internationally-recognized biblical scholars gather at Fuller Seminary to talk about the American crisis of gun violence: What does the Bible have to say about the use of violence? Can we connect ancient and modern in the case of guns and their prominence in U.S.…
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God and Guns: The Bible in American Gun Culture
Payton Geneva 135 N. Oakland Ave., Pasadena, CA, United StatesMarch 16, 2019 10:30 am - 5:00 pm Travis Auditorium Six internationally-recognized biblical scholars gather at Fuller Seminary to talk about the American crisis of gun violence: What does the Bible have to say about the use of violence? Can we connect ancient and modern in the case of guns and their prominence in U.S.…
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Payton Lectures
FeaturedTravis Auditorium 180 N. Oakland Avenue, Pasadena, CA, United StatesThe Self and Spirituality in Second Temple Judaism April 3-4, 2019 In the centuries following the destruction of the state of Judah, significant changes occurred in the religious culture of early Judaism as the nation reconstituted itself. While considerable attention has been paid to the developing role of the Torah and the emergence of new…
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