Romans Disarmed :: A Salon Discussion

So we’ve been running a series on Romans over here at empire.remixed. Did you know? Many of the pieces published here on the blog were originally delivered in sermon format throughout last year at Wine Before Breakfast.

WBB is a eucharistic community that meets weekly on Tuesday mornings at 7.30 am during the school year in Wycliffe College’s chapel, and sponsored by the CRC Campus Ministry.

Some of our favourite posts from that series include We’re All in This Together on Romans 3, Creation’s Groan on Romans 8, To Hell With Romans 13 on (you guessed it) Romans 13  and Letters From the Future on Romans 14.

And now, we’re happy to announce our second in a series of Salon Discussions, this time featuring two prominent biblical scholars with expertise in Pauline Theology and the book of Romans. Behold:

romans disarmed :: a salon discussion featuring marva dawn and sylvia keesmaat
wednesday may 14, 2008 | 7.00pm | wycliffe college | toronto, on

What would it be like if the book of Romans was a disarming text, not a weapon in theological warfare? What would happen if we read this ancient letter to a community at the heart of the empire, as if it were a letter addressed to a community, well, at the heart of the empire?

Might it be that this epistle disarms rather than wages war? What would such disarmament look like in the face of our own imperial realities?

romans disarmed :: a salon discussion will be an intimate conversation amongst two highly respected scholars of Romans and Pauline Theology, Marva Dawn from Regent College in Vancouver, and Sylvia Keesmaat from the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto.

Together they, and those who join us, will enter into conversations on the Book of Romans, remixing the empire and living transformed, not conformed lives.

Ticketing information will soon be forthcoming.