The Sidewalk Theology Society will meet at 7 p.m. at Delaney’s (18th & Blake) on Thursday the 22nd of October—yes, this will be the 4th Thursday instead of the 3rd one, but the month started on a Thursday, and The League Pipe Club postponed their meeting to the 3rd Thursday, and I didn’t want the conflict. So there it is.
The topic will be “The Nature of the Atonement.” I.e., when Christ reconciled us to God by his death, what was happening?
By the way, the format for the meetings has changed SIGNIFICANTLY. Instead of starting with a 20 minute paper, we start with about 5 minutes of “Introduction to the Idea,” followed by a question and discussion. Then the speaker states another question or brief comment, and we discuss that. The comment-question-discussion pattern repeats 3 to 5 times. This format allows more discussion and more participation by more people. Instead of having one or two people shape the discussion with the rest merely observing, everybody pitches in. We have been having more fun with this, and we all learn more.
Our patron saint for this meeting will be St. Anselm of Canterbury, who wrote Cur Deus Homo? on this topic.
I hope you will be able to attend.
John Yates, Presenter
