Lent Course 2017
Thursday afternoons at 2pm,
Finishing by 4pm in the Rectory

Returning Home – Christian
Faith in encounter with Other Faiths.

 

Thursday 9th March – A Journey into the Wilderness.

(please click the link below for pdf  resources week 1)

https://ctbi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Lent-2017-Week-1.pdf

Thursday 16th March – The Remembrance of God’s name.

(please click the link below for pdf resources week 2)

https://ctbi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Lent-2017-Week-2.pdf

Thursday 23rd March – Fasting.

(please click the link below for pdf resources week 3)

https://ctbi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Lent-2017-Week-3.pdf

Thursday 30th March – Greed, Non-attachment and Compassion

(please click on the link below for resources week 4)

https://ctbi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Lent-2017-Week-4.pdf

Thursday 6th April – The Crucified Jew.

(please click on the link below for resources week 5)

https://ctbi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Lent-2017-Week-5.pdf

The 2017 Len resource explores how Christian faith has been deepened and enriched by encounters with people of different religions. This is not a resource that necessarily emphasises common ground or that is about dialogue, but how Christian faith has burned brightly following an encounter with the religious other. You will find familiar Lenten themes in this material but with, what we hope, is a different approach.
The theologian John Cobb described his deep encounter with Buddhism in terms of a journey to another land and culture: the newness, sometimes strangeness of the other, can be an enriching experience. However when we return to the familiar, home is viewed with different eyes and a deeper, perhaps more profound, appreciation. This is why we have called this resource “Returning Home”
Christians who have lived alongside, and worked with, people of other faiths, often express their surprise and appreciation that their own Christian faith has been enriched by these encounters. How is this the case? Sometimes a practice such as fasting by Muslims in Ramadan has let Christians to think again about the ancient Christian practice of fasting, or the understanding of a concept such as suffering in an Indic faith has prompted Christians to interrogate Christian understanding of redemptive suffering.

Course provided by Churches Together in Britain & Ireland.