Save the Date: Theology Reading Group
If you’re thirsty for some deep reading in small portions with supportive community, consider joining the new Theology Reading Group which will be meeting on the second Tuesday of the month, beginning on Tuesday, 8th of October, from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. by Zoom.
The dates for our first Theology Reading Group are as follows:
8 October
12 November
10 December
14 January
11 February
11 March
8 April
To start, we will be reading, during the session itself (no advance reading required) from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Ethics which can be purchased from Amazon at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ethics-Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Works/dp/0800683269/ref=pd_sbs_d_sccl_2_2/260-5564166-5803700?pd_rd_w=e03pw&content-id=amzn1.sym.2f5a8a12-6bca-4b0e-85a5-0002432fb068&pf_rd_p=2f5a8a12-6bca-4b0e-85a5-0002432fb068&pf_rd_r=CZVVS529HB9PRYDZJSXM&pd_rd_wg=nli4N&pd_rd_r=d2c640bf-6d6b-4e13-837b-0d0ed11c04d3&pd_rd_i=0800683269&psc=1for around £27 in paperback or £24 as Kindle.
Please do get this translation, as we will engage in group reading before sharing our responses, questions, and take-aways from each session.
This is for anyone who wants to take seriously the reality of Christ and Christ’s reconciling work in our world.
We will read aloud as a group and then share our reactions (as we are willing) to the reading in about 3 minutes or so each, before opening to more general conversation. Interested? Please confirm your planned attendance by emailing me, Rob Hoch-Yidokodiltona at robhoch@utusheffield.org.uk.
Our Zoom address is:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87627415144?pwd=fqqIZa8wq7urkRYSGPFIlXrAZhbRxJ.1
Meeting ID: 876 2741 5144
Passcode: 476014
Looking forward to seeing you there –
Rob Hoch-Yidokodiltona
Director of Theological Studies
Urban Theology Union
“Christ did not, like an ethicist, love a theory about the good; he loved real people. Christ was not interested, like a philosopher, in what is ‘generally valid,’ but in that which serves real concrete human beings. Christ was not concerned about whether ‘the maxim of an action’ could become ‘a principle of universal law,’ but whether my action now helps my neighbor to be a human being before God. God did not become an idea, a principle, a program, a universally valid belief, or a law; God became human.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer