A Seminar in Quaker Theology
First Month (January) 12-14, 2001 (King Holiday Weekend)
Schedule & Registration Information
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Friday January 125:00 PM - 6:45 PM — Registration, dinner (State College Friends School) — Welcome!
7:00 - 9:30 pm — We’re Doing Theology Now
Introductions of the leaders, Chuck Fager and Ann Riggs, and group members.
Presentation (Ann): theology as disciplined reflection and continuing conversation on religious experience. Basic terms and concepts. Questions, answers, discussion
Saturday January 13
7:30 - 8:45 AM — Breakfast (State College Friends School)
9:00 - 10:30 am — Questions and Methods:
Presentation (Ann): the kinds of questions Quaker individual and communal religious experience tends to raise, and introduction to four styles of theological methods for reflection on them: Catenae (the style of Friends’ Faith and Practice books), Liberation theologies (feminist, Black and Third World versions), Narrative (as in George Fox’s and John Woolman’s Journals), Ecumenical-Analytic (the method of Barclay’s Apology). Questions, answers, discussion — Break
10:45 - 12:15 — A People, A Church & A Society: A Case Study in Quaker Theology:
Presentation (Chuck) Group work, discussion
12:30 - 1:30 — Lunch (State College Friends School)
1:30 - 4:15 — Small group practice at theological reflection, using Quaker texts. — Break
4:30 - 5:30 — "Weight"
Group reports and assessment of the success of the afternoon’s reflection: How and why some theological reflection seems to be more weighty.
5:30 - 7:00 — Dinner — At a nearby restaurant (included in registration fee)
7:30 - 9:30 — Quaker Theological Heritage:
Presentations (Chuck and Ann): review of Quaker theological tradition. Agenda for the future: what are the theological issues that press on Friends individually and communally today?
First Day, January 14
7:30 - 8:45 — Breakfast (State College Friends School)
9:00 - 10:00 — Meeting for Worship
10:15 - 11:00 — Presentation (Ann): Theological Resources for Friends — Break
11:15 - 12:15 — Wrapup and Closing (Chuck): The Future of Quaker Theology Is Up to You.
12:30 — Lunch and Departure —Thank You For Coming!
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QUEST, P.O. Box 82, Bellefonte PA 16823
E-mail: quest@quaker.org
Web: http://quakertheology.org