The Freedom Church of New York City and West Park Presbyterian Church present:
Revolutionary Bible Study
Monday, April 23rd, 2012, 7pm
West Park Presbyterian Church
165 West 86th Street at Amsterdam
New York, New York 10024
Mondays, 7pm
RSVP
The Occupy Movement has placed the issue of economic justice at the center of American political discourse. This Bible study focusing on historical Jesus in the occupied Palestine will offer a critical assessment of the role of revolutionary Christianity in our contemporary world.
co-taught by Rev. Dr. Robert Brashear and Rev. Osagyefo Sekou
Texts: The Gospel of Mark, Binding the Strong Man by Ched Meyers, and Gods, Gays, and Guns by Rev. Sekou
Additional Readings:
Call and Consequences: A Womanist Reading of Mark by Rachel St. Clair
The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone
The Historical Jesus by John Dominic Crossan
A Theology of Liberation by Gustavo Gutierrez
Saving Paradise by Rita Nagashima Brock and Rebecca Parker
Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman
Rev. Dr. Robert Brashear is the Senior Pastor of West Park Presbyterian Church and teaches Theologies of Liberation at Newark Theological Seminary.
Rev. Osagyefo Sekou is the founding Senior Minister of The Freedom Church of New York City and teaches Homiletics at the Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education.
The Occupy Movement has placed the issue of economic justice at the center of American political discourse. This Bible study focusing on historical Jesus in the occupied Palestine will offer a critical assessment of the role of revolutionary Christianity in our contemporary world.
co-taught by Rev. Dr. Robert Brashear and Rev. Osagyefo Sekou
Texts: The Gospel of Mark, Binding the Strong Man by Ched Meyers, and Gods, Gays, and Guns by Rev. Sekou
Additional Readings:
Call and Consequences: A Womanist Reading of Mark by Rachel St. Clair
The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone
The Historical Jesus by John Dominic Crossan
A Theology of Liberation by Gustavo Gutierrez
Saving Paradise by Rita Nagashima Brock and Rebecca Parker
Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman
Rev. Dr. Robert Brashear is the Senior Pastor of West Park Presbyterian Church and teaches Theologies of Liberation at Newark Theological Seminary.
Rev. Osagyefo Sekou is the founding Senior Minister of The Freedom Church of New York City and teaches Homiletics at the Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education.
