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SUMMARY:Jesus in Retrospect: From Sin to Perfection
DESCRIPTION:How is it that Jesus came to be viewed by the earliest Christians as “sinless\,” and what did this mean for them? In this presentation I will explore the process by which early Christianity claimed that Jesus was a perfectly sinless human being\, setting the stage for his apotheosis as God. As we will see\, everything hinges on the tragic death of Jesus on the cross\, “a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles” (1 Corinthians 1:23). How were the early followers of Jesus to make sense of the death of Jesus when what they had expected was that Jesus would usher in the kingdom of God and commence a messianic age (Luke 24:21; Acts 1:6)? Once they came to believe that God had raised Jesus from the dead\, the early Christian communities began a process of “retrospective theologizing\,” namely\, retelling the story of Jesus from the perspective of his death and resurrection\, and then retrojecting these beliefs back onto his public ministry\, his baptism\, and his birth. Against charges that Jesus was “born in sin” (out of wedlock)\, the early Christians retorted that his was a perfect virgin birth. Against charges that Jesus repented from sin at his baptism by John\, the early believers responded that this was a baptism of perfect righteousness. And against charges that Jesus violated laws and customs surrounding Jewish family\, friends\, and faith\, — in short that “we know this man is a sinner” (John 9:24)\, the early Christians accused the Jewish leaders of being children of the devil (John 8:44)\, leading to centuries of Christian anti-semitism. Christians also co-opted Jewish festivals such as Yom Kippur and Passover to claim that Jesus was the “true bread from heaven” (John 6) and the ultimate\n“lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29). While we can understand the historical and theological processes by which Jesus came to be viewed as sinless\, is such a view still necessary for contemporary Christianity? \n  \nJeffrey S. Siker is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles)\, where he has taught since 1987. His areas of expertise include early Jewish/Christian relations\, the history of biblical interpretation\, scripture & ethics\, and the Bible and technology. In addition to dozens of articles\, his most recent books include: Liquid Scripture: The Bible in a Digital World (Fortress\, 2017); Jesus\, Sin\, and Perfection in Early Christianity\n(Cambridge\, 2015); Scripture & Ethics: 20th Century Portraits (Oxford\, 2006); and Homosexuality in the Church: Both Sides of the Debate (Westminster/John Knox\, 1994). He is currently completing a volume on Sin: New Testament Perspectives (forthcoming\, Oxford\, 2019). \n  \n  \nThis talk will be held in Kaplan Hall 365. Please RSVP below: \n[gravityform id=”70″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/jesus-in-retrospect-from-sin-to-perfection/
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SUMMARY:The Public's Views of the Relationship Between Religion and Science – and the Resulting Disconnect With Social Sciences and the Humanities
DESCRIPTION:In this talk I examine recent sociological research on the relationship between religion and science for the public. This research suggests that while religion may have at one time been concerned with fact claims in the natural world that could be contradicted by science\, it largely is no longer. This post-1960s development has coincided with the rise of moral conflict between religious traditions and science. However\, social science and humanities research on this relationship largely assumes that religion and science are epistemic – not moral – systems\, and thus misunderstands the situation in the public. \nJohn H. Evans is the Tata Chancellor’s Chair in Social Sciences\, Associate Dean of the Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics at the University of California\, San Diego. He has been a visiting member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton\, NJ\, a post-doctoral fellow at Yale University and has held visiting professorial fellowships or honorary professorships at the Universities of Edinburgh\, Muenster\, Ben Gurion\, and Queensland. He specializes in examining debates that involve religion and science in the public sphere\, trying to use social science to contribute to humanistic and ethical debates. He has particularly focused on ethical debates about human genetics. \n  \n  \nThe talk will be held in Haines 279. \n[gravityform id=”68″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/the-publics-views-of-the-relationship-between-religion-and-science-and-the-resulting-disconnect-with-social-sciences-and-the-humanities/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181113T153000
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SUMMARY:Korea Before Nationalism:  Judging and Misjudging\, the 1801 Silk Letter of Hwang Sayŏng
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by: Center for Korean Studies \nCo-Sponsored by: Center for Study of Religion\, Center for Buddhist Studies \n  \nIn 1801\, in the midst of a bloody anti-Catholic persecution\, one of the persecuted Catholics\, Hwang Sayŏng\, tried to send a letter to the bishop in Beijing requesting European military intervention to force Chosŏn to stop killing Catholics. Over two centuries later\, historians debate how to characterize Hwang’s action. Many declare that he was traitor for asking foreign military forces to threaten Korea. A few others insist that he was a human rights activist\, since all he wanted was religious freedom\, not the fall of the government. Both characterizations are anachronistic. Professor Baker will provide a way to evaluate Hwang’s intentions in their historical context\, before the concepts of nationalism or religious freedom were present on the peninsula. He will argue that Hwang simply wanted Chosŏn to change its allegiance from Beijing to Rome. \n  \nDonald Baker is professor of Korean History and Civilization in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. His most recent book is Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Chosŏn Korea. He also wrote Korean Spirituality\, a survey of Korea’s religious culture and has published numerous articles on Christianity and Confucianism in Korean history.
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/korea-before-nationalism-judging-and-misjudging-the-1801-silk-letter-of-hwang-sayong/
LOCATION:Royce 243
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SUMMARY:Johannes Vermeer and the Doctrine of the Logos
DESCRIPTION:During the previous half-century\, Johannes Vermeer has emerged as one of the greatest painters of the Baroque era. Nevertheless\, the uncommon depth and subtlety of his religious allegories have not been adequately noted in scholarship. In this lecture\, we will look at a pair of paintings that figures forth the doctrine of Jesus Christ as it is represented in the Gospel of John and compare Vermeer’s allegory with similar ones by his contemporaries. \n  \nGregory Harwell studied Economics\, Literature\, Philosophy\, History and Art History\, in that order\, at the University of Texas at Austin\, Heidelberg University and Princeton University\, where he received his doctorate. He has taught art history at the University of Southern California\, UC Riverside\, UC Santa Barbara and at UCLA since 2011. He has written extensively on the numismatic arts in the Renaissance and has recently completed two books: one on the French painter\, Jean Chardin\, and a history book on the Flemish Uprising of 1488. Dr. Harwell is currently working on a book about art and religion in early Modern Europe. \n  \n  \nPlease RSVP below: \n[gravityform id=”61″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/johannes-vermeer-and-the-doctrine-of-the-logos/
LOCATION:Humanities Bldg\, Rm 365
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