Monday Class
Fall 2011 – Reading the Gospels, Part One
Our aim in this class is to read the four canonical Gospels alongside each other in order to appreciate the different agendas and styles of each writer and to gain a fuller picture of the life of Jesus. While we will engage in some textual criticism and source criticism, the class will focus on reading the canonical Gospels as we have them. We will consider differences and discrepancies in the accounts, and we will also note the ways that the accounts work together to give a fuller and richer picture of Jesus’ ministry. Whether you are reading the Gospels for the first time or for the hundred-and-first time, and whether you come to the class with faith or questions – or both, this class will enrich your reading of the Gospels and will deepen your engagement with Jesus.
Offered weekly on Mondays, period E1 (7:20-8:10 pm)
September 12 through November 21 (no class October 31)
Open to the general public.
Led by Richard V. Horner, Executive Director
The Study Center offers a weekly class that addresses a broad range of questions that are widely shared by the university community. While these classes utilize guest lecturers from Gainesville and across the country, the Center relies most heavily on faculty and students from the University of Florida for its teachers in these classes. The Center’s main class typically meets on Monday evenings throughout the academic year.
Recent classes include
- “The Ramifications of Technological Change”
- “Arts, Science and Society in an Age of Religious Reform: Early Modern Lessons for a Contemporary World”
- “Social Science, Religion, and Human Flourishing”
- “Perspectives on Science and Worldview”
- “Technology and Local Ecological Health”
- “Augustine for Today”
- “Tattoos, Piercings, and Beyond: Body Modification and the Possibility of Meaning”
- “Religion, Scholarship, and the University”
- “How We Got Four, and only four, Gospels”
- “The Poet as Priest: Poetry and Transcendence”