Oak Grove Presbyterian Church, Bloomington, has set the schedule for the 2008 February Forum speaker series. This year’s lecture series is titled, “The Early Christian Experience” and will feature keynote speaker Dr. Luke Timothy Johnson, Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins, Emory University in Atlanta. Dr. Johnson is the author of over 25 books on Christian origins and early Christian writings. Other scholars making presentations in February include Dr. Rolf Jacobson and Dr. Matt Skinner, both of Luther Seminary in St. Paul. All lectures will cover the period roughly 50 C.E. through 200 C.E. in early church history. This series is meant to present a scholarly, enlightening and entertaining perspective on the early Christian experience in the Mediterranean world and is intended for people of all faiths and educational backgrounds. The series is not presented as a Bible study.

 

• At 2:00 p.m. Sunday, February 10^th, Luke Timothy Johnson will present a lecture titled,   “Early Christianity – Experience of the Divine.” 
• At 7:00 p.m., Sunday, February 17^th, Dr. Rolf Jacobson will speak on a topic titled, “How the Early Christians read Scriptures in Light of the Resurrection Story.”
• Dr. Matt Skinner will wrap up the series at 7:00 p.m., Sunday, February 24^th with a lecture titled, “If Jesus is God then who are we? How the early church understood itself in their world.”

All presentations are free of charge and open to the public. Doors open one hour prior to the start of each presentation for a coffee and desert social hour. Free child care will be provided. Oak Grove Presbyterian Church is located at 2200 West Old Shakopee Road in Bloomington. Learn more at oakgrv.org.