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IAP 2017



The Heretic's Club: Jesus-"The Way" OR "in the way"? (Dinner)

Adam Reynolds, Blue Ocean Faith Chaplain

Jan/25 Wed 07:00PM-08:30PM 5-231

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/23
Limited to 20 participants

The Heretic's Club is a new IAP series combining good food and good conversation on spirituality, religion and the big questions of life. As the name would imply, diverse viewpoints and backgrounds are welcome and the doors are wide open to non-traditional and outside-the-box ways of thinking.

Jesus: “The Way” OR “in the way”? (Dinner)

A large percentage of people lean toward believing in some kind of “God”. In the U.S. and elsewhere, many people have also been exposed to various expressions of Christianity where belief in God is equated with belief in Jesus as “God’s Son,” “the savior of the world,” “fully God and fully man,” etc. While Jesus as either myth or historical figure has much to recommend him, many people take issue with the idea that those who have faith in Jesus are “saved” while all others are damned for all eternity. This is sometimes called “the problem of exclusivity” and it is, understandably, a dealbreaker for many people. Are there other paradigms that might disrupt this impasse? What about other world religions? How do they and how can they relate to faith in Jesus?

While not claiming to have any definitive answers, this Heretic’s Club conversation will hazard directly into this tension with hopes of promoting more inclusivity and less divisiveness.

Includes free dinner!

Please register here.

Other Heretic's Club Sessions:

 

Sponsor(s): Blue Ocean Faith
Contact: Adam Reynolds, W11-011, ADAM1@MIT.EDU