Pathways Series 2012

A SPIRITUALITY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

PRESENTER: Deacon "Red" Cheever

Pathways will continue to explore the Hebrew Bible - - especially the Torah; Greek Rationalism - - that leads ultimately to Modernity; and early Christianity - - especially the creation/discovery/revelation of the idea of the Holy Trinity. This textual and conceptual understanding is required if Pathways is to create a viable Spirituality for the 21st Century.
The overall goal of Pathways is to explore text and practices that will prepare the members to live a righteous life in our time - - to see the goodness of Nature and to co-create with God a better world.

Textbooks:

• Plato, The Last Days of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito &
  Phaedo) Penguin Books: 2003 ISBN 978-0-140-44928-0.
• Gregory of Nyssa, The Life of Moses (The Classics of Western
  Spirituality). New York: Paulist Press, 1978 ISBN 08091-2112-3.

In January-June we will add two books:

• Karen Armstrong, The Bible, the Biography. London: Atlantic
  Books, 2007 ISBN 978-1-84354-396-1
• Mark Taylor, After God. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press,
  2007 ISBN 978-1-226-79169-2
• The Armstrong book will give a good introduction to how the Bible
  can and should be read in a Modern/Post-modern world. Taylor
  clarifies what Religion has become in our time, and how Religion
  can change to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
• The Psalms from the Bible and the Chinese classic, Tao Te Ching,
  will be read together in order to see and understand comparisons and
  contrasts between West and East.

OPTIONAL TEXTS

• Prayer of the Heart, Writings from the Philokalia. Boston:
  Shambhala, 1993 ISBN 87773-890-4.

• Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, The Particulars of Rapture, Reflections
  on Exodus. New York: Doubleday, 2001 ISBN 0-385-49152.