Reclaiming Paul Conference

This fall, Jacob's Well will play host to a theological conference that I could not be more excited about. The title of the conference is, "Reclaiming Paul: The Apostle in the Emerging World." Andy Johnson, a New Testament professor from Nazarene Theological Seminary (in Kansas City, Missouri) began developing this event some time ago. I was pulled into the planning conversation over the last year. It is going to be a great event.

The event is presented by NTS and co-sponsored by Emergent Village. Over the years Emergent has partnered with different schools, publishers, and churches to create space for important conversations between leading theologians (Stanley Hauerwas, Walter Brueggemann, Miroslav Volf, John Caputo, among others) and everyday practitioners in a creative and generative manner. Like I said above, Jacob's Well has the privilege of hosting the conversation in our space. The dates for this event are October 22-24. Also, just a quick warning: the cut-off for registration is 300 people. If you think you might be interested in participating in this event, it would be good to register in advance of the time. Click here in you want to do register for the event. Click here to see the conference itinerary. Speakers and presenters can be seen on the main conference page linked above. And here is a brief, boiler-plate description from the main conference site:

"Reclaiming Paul: The Apostle in the Emerging World" brings together Pauline scholars and emerging church leaders for a robust theological conversation on Paul and the Church. This event will include four major presentations by Pauline scholars, responses by emerging church leaders and a variety of related workshops/breakout sessions. There will be plenty of time for interaction between the conferees, Pauline scholars and emerging church leaders.

There is also a blog that has been set up that will include resources and pre-conference information and conversation. Check out the Reclaiming Paul blog. One of the first entries on the blog is a discussion between myself and John Franke about Paul, the Scriptures, the local church, and this conference. John is a professor of theology at Biblical Theological Seminary outside Philadelphia. When he was in town for the Allelon Missional Training Center event we did in June, we sat down and reflected about the topic at hand.

Comments

[mark Wampler]

so tim from Kansas City, you were on the phone when Doug was fondeling his large knife were you? Great story. Like Doug's new book. Think his natural sin chapters are way off though.

[Tim]

Hi Mark,

Good to hear from you. Yes, that was me on the phone with Doug. It was unbelievable. Haven't read his new book, but he will be at the Paul deal doing a presentation on it.

Tim