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The Events...Nine Lecture series delivered over three days4 September to 6 September 2012, 10.30am to 4.30pm.

Venue: Pitt Street Uniting Church 264 Pitt Street, Sydney, NSW 2000

“THE POWER OF PARABLE:HOW FICTION BY JESUS

BECAME FICTION ABOUT JESUS”

Based on the book of the same title, published byHarperOne, San Francisco, CA.

The book was published on 6 March 2012.

A Bookshop will be available for the sale of resources on progressive religious thought.

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Tickets3 Days of Lectures Ordinary Ticket $160 Theological Student $50

1 Day of Lectures Ordinary Ticket $60 Theological Student $20

Major Evening Public Address (Only) Ordinary Ticket $30 Theological Student $10

All Lectures (Package) Ordinary Ticket $185 Theological Student $55

Early Bird Registration / Payment on All Lectures only (Cut off date: Monday 2 July 2012)

Ordinary Ticket $155 Theological Student $40

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• Meals, apart from afternoon teas on the full days, are not provided.

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PRESENTSA “Common Dreams on the Road” Event jointly

sponsored by a cooperative of progressive groupsin and around Sydney, assisted by the Progressive

Christian Network of Victoria.

“THE POWER OF PARABLE:HOW FICTION BY JESUS

BECAME FICTION ABOUT JESUS”

Visit to Sydney by

Professor John Dominic Crossan Tuesday 4 to Friday September 7 2012

About Dom...JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN was born in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland, in 1934. He was educated in Ireland and the United States, received a Doctorate of Divinity from Maynooth College, Ireland, in 1959, and did post-doctoral research at the Pontifi cal Biblical Institute in Rome from 1959 to 1961 and

at the École Biblique in Jerusalem from 1965 to 1967. He was a member of a 13th century Roman Catholic religious order, the Servites (Ordo Servorum Mariae), from 1950 to 1969 and an ordained priest from 1957 to 1969. He joined DePaul University, Chicago, in 1969 and remained there until 1995. He is now a Professor Emeritus in its Department of Religious Studies.

He was Co-Chair of the Jesus Seminar from 1985 to 1996 as it met in twice-annual meetings to debate the historicity of the life of Jesus in the gospels. He was Chair of the Parables Seminar in 1972-76, Editor of “Semeia”, an Experimental Journal for Biblical Criticism in 1980-86, and Chair of the Historical Jesus Section in 1993-1998, within the Society of Biblical Literature, an international scholarly association for biblical study based in the United States. He has received awards for scholarly excellence from the American Academy of Religion in 1989, DePaul University in 1991 and 1995, and an honorary doctorate from Stetson University, DeLand, FL, in 2003.

Marcus Borg and Dom Crossan have co-authored a series of books with HarperOne, San Francisco: “The Last Week: A Day by Day Account of Jesus’s Final Week in Jerusalem” (2006); “The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach about the Birth of Jesus” (2007); and “The First Paul: Reclaiming the Radical Visionary behind the Church’s Conservative Icon” (2009).

A recent book “The Greatest Prayer: Rediscovering the Revolutionary Message of the Lord’s Prayer” was released in September 2010. His newest book “The Power of Parable: How Fiction By Jesus Became Fiction About Jesus” was published on6 March 2012.

Hear Dom...John Dominic Crossan is a renowned international progressive biblical scholar. He is visiting Sydney, Australia, to deliver a series of Lectures and one major Public Address in September this year - 2012.

Location: Pitt Street Uniting Church 264 Pitt Street, Sydney, NSW 2000

Day Lectures: Tuesday, September 4Theme 1: Biblical Traditions and Jesus’ Parable Lecture 1 Riddle Parables and Mark 4 Time: 10:30pm - 12:00pm

Lecture 2 Example Parables and Luke 15 Time: 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Lecture 3 Challenge Parables and Divine Transcendence Time: 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Wednesday, September 5Theme 2: Jesus’ Parables and God’s Kingdom Lecture 1 The Good Samaritan as Challenge Parable Time: 10:30pm - 12:00pm

Lecture 2 Hearing Parables with Galilean Peasant Ears Time: 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Lecture 3 The Parable-Medium is the Kingdom-Message Time: 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Thursday, September 6Theme 3: God’s Kingdom in Gospel Mega-Parables Lecture 1 Mark and Matthew: Challenge and Attack Time: 10:30pm - 12:00pm

Lecture 2 Luke-Acts: Rome as the New Jerusalem Time: 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Lecture 3 God’s Dream for the World Time: 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Major Evening Public Address: Friday, September 7 at 7:00pm

“Is God Violent? How to read the Christian Bible & still be a Christian”A major Public Address exploring a Christian theology of the Bible

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