“Mark & the ‘Other’: Engaging Women, Gentiles, and the Enslaved”
Twelfth Fred B. Craddock Seminar on the Gospels
Emerson Powery, Professor of Biblical Studies and Coordinator of Ethnic and Area Studies, Messiah College, Mechanicsburg, PA
The earliest Gospel in the Christian tradition portrays Jesus encountering a variety of people in the villages surrounding the sea of Galilee. How Jesus interacts with non-Jewish males will attract our attention in these talks. Do these interactions enhance Jesus’ mission? Do they alter his plans? And, why might Mark depict Jesus in such encounters in the first place? In contemporary conversations, it is common to discuss how citizens interact with non-citizens and what the church’s role should be in fostering these relationships. These recent discussions are informed by a long (and, oftentimes, troubling) history of interracial interactions. It is imperative that we search our sacred stories to find guidance and open up new possibilities for opportunities of engagements with the “other.”
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Presented by: Stalcup School of Theology for the Laity, Brite Divinity School