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9/5/05

SLU TO HOST 'JESUS SEMINAR ON THE ROAD' SEPTEMBER 16-17

CANTON - "Jesus in the First and 21st Centuries" is the topic for a "Jesus Seminar on the Road" taking place at St. Lawrence University on Friday and Saturday, September 16 and 17. The Jesus Seminar is a group of scholars that meets twice a year, discussing research on "the quest of the historical Jesus."

The seminar features a lecture and workshops, and is open to the public, with fees varying according to participation and date of registration; it is free for St. Lawrence students. To register, visit http://westarinstitute.org/Events/Canton2005/canton2005.html. The event is part of St. Lawrence's celebration of its Sesquicentennial; among the topics being explored during the year is the University's Universalist heritage.

A lecture, titled "The Search for the Historical Jesus," begins the event on Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Herring-Cole. On Saturday, workshops on "The Jesus of the First Century" and "The Jesus of the 21st Century" are planned by Thomas Sheehan and Daryl D. Schmidt.

Sheehan is a professor of religious studies at Stanford University and the author of The First Coming, a widely acclaimed and controversial account of Easter. His philosophical specialties are in philosophy of religion, 20th-century European philosophy and classical metaphysics. Schmidt is John F. Weatherly Professor of New Testament at Texas Christian University. A general editor of the Scholars Version translation project, MORE he is the author of The Gospel of Mark: Scholars Bible Edition (1991) and editor of Forum, the scholarly journal of the Westar Institute, a member-supported, non-profit research and educational institute dedicated to the advancement of religious literacy.

For more information, visit the Westar Institute Web site, http://www.westarinstitute.org, or contact University Chaplain Kathleen Buckley, 315-229-5256, kbuckley@stlawu.edu.

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The Jesus Seminar Web Site