Religious Basic Training For
Leadership In The Family Of God

This is an offer to lead a year-long seminar at St. Thomas Episcopal Church on the subject of ecumenical theology.  Details are:

• The purpose of this seminar is an assimilation of intellectual and moral content.

• Meetings are for clarification of material already digested, through recitation and disputation – the reverse of ordinary pedagogical procedure.

• Significant dedication to a large amount of work and effacement of personal interests, including “sense of self-esteem [aka ego],” is expected.

• There will be no exploration of ideas or issues brought by participants.

• An individual evidencing non-preparation will be dismissed from the meeting and the remainder of the seminar.

• One third of participants must be between the ages of 12 and 28.

• If less than one third of participants in any meeting is between the ages of 12 and 28, that meeting and the remainder of the seminar will be terminated.
• Meetings commence September 2001 and finish August 2002.

• Meetings will be at St.  Thomas Episcopal Church from 1400 to 1800 hours on the third Sunday of each month.

• Two meetings will be devoted to the primary work of each of six figures: Gregory Bateson, Teilhard de Chardin, Paul Tillich, Baha’u’llah, Valmiki/Sathya Sai Baba and Seers of Tibet.

Seminar Schedule

September/October 2001

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Primary: The Phenomenon of Man

Secondary: The Divine Milieu

Tertiary: The Future of Man

November/December 2001

Baha’u’llah

Primary: The Hidden Words

Secondary: The Seven Valleys

Tertiary: God, His Manifestations, and Man

January/February 2002

Gregory Bateson

Primary: Mind and Nature

Secondary: Steps to an Ecology of Mind

A Sacred Unity: Further Steps to an Ecology of Mind

Tertiary: Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred

March/April 2002

Valmiki/Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Ramakatha Rasa Vahini
(The Rama Story, Stream of Sacred Sweetness, Ramayana)

May/June 2002

Paulus Johannes Tillich

Primary: Systematic Theology Vols.  1-3

Systematic Theology, Vols. I, II, III

The Rev. Dr. Paulus Johannes Tillich

Secondary: Theology of Culture

Tertiary: A History of Christian Thought, ed., Carl E.  Braaten

July/August 2002

Seers of Tibet

Bardo Thodol (The Tibetan Book of the Dead)

Update 1: Myron Ebell and Steven J. Milloy: Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions

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