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Winter/Spring 2008
God's Word in Greek: Readings in the New Testament
With The Rev. Edward F. Duffy
“God’s Word in Greek" is an annual continuing education workshop. This workshop will conduct monthly translation sessions of selected texts from the New Testament, reading the Gospel of Mark and considering it in relation to a Gospel synopsis this semester. Participants will be encouraged to fine tune their New Testament Greek reading skills as well as explore the readings in light of their faith understanding. Reading the Greek text together with other colleagues will enhance understanding of Biblical issues. Participants should have basic proficiency in New Testament Greek; at least a one-year course in basic Greek should suffice. They also should obtain at least a used copy of a Greek synopsis of the gospels.
In the winter/spring semester, the workshop will meet on January 8, February 12, March 11, April 8, May 13, and June 10.
The Rev. Edward F. Duffy is adjunct professor of New Testament at Hartford Seminary; this fall he is teaching Introduction to New Testament Greek. He is minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Fairfield, CT. From 1994 to 2004, he was minister of the First Congregational Church in Litchfield. He received his B.A. from Princeton, an M.A. in musicology from Columbia, and the Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. He completed his Ph.D. in 2000 from the Graduate Theological Foundation. His dissertation was a translation and commentary on Didymus the Blind's Job commentary.
$120 for the full year
A Drumming Circle
With Jan Gregory
Those who are interested in participating in African hand drumming should enroll in this facilitated drumming circle.
African djembe drums, along with other African hand percussion, will be used. When you register, please indicate whether you will bring your own drum or will need to borrow one.
The class will build upon basic skills. Participants will learn additional rhythms and will increase their proficiency through playing the rhythms together in the circle. Each rhythm set will have easy and more difficult parts to fit all levels of skill.
The instructor/facilitator will be Jan Gregory, owner of the Renaissance Center: Your Community Music School in Southbury, and Director of Music Ministry, Congregational Church of Easton, UCC.
Mondays, March 10 and 24, April 14 and 28, and May 12 and 19
7 p.m.
$120
A Rumi Night of Poetry and Music
With Peter Rogen, reading, Steve Gorn on flute and John de Kadt on percussion
Jelaluddin Rumi is the 13th century Sufi mystical poet, born in Afghanistan, who lived most of his life in what is now Turkey. A blending of profound spirit, philosophy and intellect with an extraordinary literary talent distinguishes Rumi as one of the world's great poets.
A "Rumi Night" is an intimate opportunity to hear Rumi's poetry read aloud, accompanied by the spontaneous playing of flute and percussion. When Sufis gather to sing, dance, and recite poetry, it is know as "Sema," a deep listening, a waking to a calling that is always there but difficult to hear in the busyness of our day. In this casual format, one often hears the poetry and music as if for the first time - receiving waves of impressions of new and deeper spiritual levels within Rumi's work.
Peter Rogen was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Grant to Study Voice and Speech in the American Theater, and performed Shakespeare with The Helen Hayes Equity Theater at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) for several seasons. Moving to the business world, he founded an international communications consultancy. Finally, Rogen returned to the arts, and to the study of Asian and Middle Eastern philosophies and culture.
Steve Gorn has performed Indian Classical Music and new American Music on the bansuri bamboo flute, soprano saxophone and clarinet in concerts and festivals throughout the world. In 2008, in addition to touring in India, he will direct the ensemble performing Teiji Ito’s musical accompanying of Watermill, presented by the New York City Ballet as part of the Jerome Robbins Retrospective.
Since childhood John de Kadt has been tapping on everything imaginable including desks, chairs, pans, pots, rocks and bodies. Drawn to hand percussion instruments, he has been playing them for over 25 years. De Kadt plays drums from various world music traditions including an array of frame drums from India, the Middle East, Ireland and Brazil. He also plays the djembe and the junjun from Africa, and congas from Cuba. He appears on numerous recordings and performs regularly throughout the East Coast.
Thursday, May 22
6:30 p.m.
$30
Church Challenges: Ecclesiology and Leadership Today
A two-day continuing education program led by James Nieman, Professor of Practical Theology at Hartford Seminary. The program will include presentations by denominational leaders and experts in ecclesiology
Hartford Seminary is offering this two-day continuing education program to explore contemporary challenges faced by congregations and denominations through the insights of church leaders and scholars who reflect on these matters.
On June 11, a panel of denominational judicatory leaders will discuss some of the persistent challenges facing the church and its leadership today. Topics would include:
- Ecumenical cooperation and agreements
- Interfaith relations and practices
- Structures and forms of the church
- Evangelism and mission
- Links between the local and global church
- Church in the public sphere
- Emerging challenges for the future
Besides responding to questions, the panelists will interact with the audience at lunch and through an open time for questions and responses.
Serving on the panel will be: The Rev. Judith G. Allbee, Executive Minister, American Baptist Churches of Connecticut; The Rev. Dr. Davida Crabtree, Conference Minister, Connecticut Conference, the United Church of Christ; the Rev. Dana F. Lindsley, Executive Presbyter, the Presbytery of Southern New England; Bishop Margaret G. Payne, New England Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and Bishop Andrew Smith, the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut.
On June 12, a panel of two scholars will discuss their recent writings on matters facing the church and how these intersect with recent developments in the field of ecclesiology.
James Nieman, Professor of Practical Theology at Hartford Seminary, will moderate the program.
Wednesday/Thursday, June 11 and 12
10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
$200
To register for events, you can register and where appropriate pay online by clicking on the "register and pay" icon or print out the registration form and send it with a check or your credit card information to:
Educational Outreach Events
c/o Tubanur Yesilhark
Hartford Seminary
77 Sherman Street, Hartford CT 06105
