This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions
Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm and you can join in to the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. Followed by an extended discussion for a half hour. Volunteers please join by 10:30 am.
The history of early Christianity used to be viewed as a straight-line record of success, from Jesus through Paul to the formation of the Church and its eventual triumph as the official religion of the Roman Empire in the 4th century. That view has been upended. How so?
Our featured presentation this Sunday will focus on what we now know – and, more importantly, don’t know – about Jesus and Paul and how this changes our view of how early Christianity developed.
Our featured speaker on this topic will be Barrie Wilson, PhD and Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies, York University where he taught courses on the Biblical Studies, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Varieties of Early Christianity. He is the author of How Jesus Became Christian (2008); The Lost Gospel (2014); Paul vs James (2018); Searching for the Messiah (2020). Barrie has appeared in numerous documentaries as the on-camera expert including several episodes of The Naked Archeologist.
Please RSVP on meetup to get access to the Zoom link:
https://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Oasis/events/285605975/
Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!
This meeting has been recorded: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k_RBiv4-dux45cIvt2LqmxnNqpygI7Xl/view?usp=sharing