St Marks Centre for Radical
INVITES YOU TO ITS AUTUMN CONFERENCE Ritual for Radicals: Does Progressive Christianity need Ritual? DOUGLAS DAVIES St Marks Centre for Radical Christianity is delighted to welcome Douglas Davies, Professor in the Study of Religion, University of Durham to St Mark’s Church, Broomhill for its Autumn Conference. SATURDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2012 10.00 am — 4.00 pm (9.15am Coffee and Registration) Non-members £12, CRC/PCN Members £10, Students £5 at St Marks Church, Broomhill Sheffield St Marks CRC is part of the Progressive Christianity Network It would be difficult to over-estimate the importance of ritual within human being. It emerges within the experience of our earliest ancestors as they struggled to make sense of existence, mediate their relation to an unpredictable world, mark important transitions in life and give expression to their deepest longings and aspirations. Unsurprisingly, Christianity, like each and every religious tradition, soon evolved its own rituals which, through the passage of time, became associated with particular beliefs or conveyed authority to particular individuals and structures. In a climate of greater freedom to reflect critically, yet constructively, on the past, it is vital that we rediscover the role of ritual within an on-going exploration of what it means to be true to Jesus as we seek also to be true to a faith that is reasonable and relevant yet pioneering and fearless, informed (but not constrained) by the orthodoxies of human inquiry; faith that is willing to live with the complexities and uncertainties, the opportunities and challenges, characterising the human condition. To help us in this vocation, we are delighted to announce that Professor Davies will lead our Autumn 2012 Conference.
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