| CURIOSITY CLUB ON CHRISTIANITY 2012 Schedule | |||
| Learn and discuss early church history from Jesus to Constantine. For more information contact: Brian 403-201-3091. |
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| DATES | TIME | LOCATION | DETAILS |
Tuesday, Jan 31/12 |
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM | Holy Grounds Coffee Lounge, Lower Level | The title of this month's video lecture is "Christianities of the Second Century". As well, we have acquired anothe ser of DVD lectures titled "Fall of the Pagans and Origins of Medieval Christianity" by Professor Kenneth Harl of Tulane University. These lectures could give us a different point of view during the first three centuries AD and another 300 years towards the end of Paganism. |
Tuesday, Feb 28/12 |
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM | Holy Grounds Coffee Lounge, Lower Level | We will be watching another of Prof. Kenneth Harl's lectures "Christian Bishops & Apostolic Churches" This will give us another view of the Christian church in those early days before the Emperor Constantine. Because Prof. Harl is an historian we will get another perspective as compared to Prof. Ehrman whose specialty is Religious Studies. Contact: 403-252-1620. |
Tuesday, Mar 27/12 |
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM | Holy Grounds Coffee Lounge, Lower Level | We’ll be showing the video "The Conversion of Constantine" presented by Prof. Kenneth Harl. This a crucial period in the early Christian Church where the reigning Roman Emperor became Christian and this lecture combined with the next two will provideus with how an empire and a fledgling church became one and was the foundation of the Roman Catholic Church. Contact: Brian Dowse 403-201-3091. |
Tuesday, Apr 24/12 |
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM | Holy Grounds Coffee Lounge, Lower Level | We'll be showing the video is titled "Constantine and the Bishops" by Prof. Kenneth Harl.
This covers the period where the Emperor Constantine has unified the Empire with the capital moved to Constantinople and, as a convert to Christianity, begins the process of doing the same for the embryonic Christian church using the bishops as his religious network. Out of this emerges the framework of the Christian church as we know it today! |
Tuesday, May 22/12 |
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM | Holy Grounds Coffee Lounge, Lower Level | Our next CCC Meeting will be Tuesday May 22 at 7.30 pm in the Holy Grounds Room on the lower level. PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE and not the usual last Tuesday of the month. This will be the last meeting until September. We will be listening to a lecture by Professor Kenneth Harl titled "Christianizing the Roman World". This covers how Emperor Constantine set about changing a Pagan Empire into a Christian one by building churches and formalizing church organization. |
| TENTATIVE SCHEDULE Sep 2012 to Jun 2013 | |||
Tuesday, Sep 25/12 |
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM | Holy Grounds Coffee Lounge, Lower Level | TBA |
Tuesday, Oct 30/12 |
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM | Holy Grounds Coffee Lounge, Lower Level | TBA |
Tuesday, Nov 27/12 |
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM | Holy Grounds Coffee Lounge, Lower Level | TBA |
Tuesday, Jan 29/13 |
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM | Holy Grounds Coffee Lounge, Lower Level | TBA |
Tuesday, Feb 26/13 |
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM | Holy Grounds Coffee Lounge, Lower Level | TBA |
Tuesday, Mar 26/13 |
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM | Holy Grounds Coffee Lounge, Lower Level | TBA |
Tuesday, Apr 30/13 |
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM | Holy Grounds Coffee Lounge, Lower Level | TBA |
Tuesday, May 28/13 |
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM | Holy Grounds Coffee Lounge, Lower Level | TBA |
| Date, time and location are subject to change | |||