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Learning to Read the New Testament in Greek Price: tbc The New Testament is both a very familiar, and at the same time, a very strange text. Distant from today’s English, both linguistically and culturally, the poetry and prose of the original texts speak of long vanished Empires, the abuse of power and the plight of the poor and disadvantaged. To encounter the text in its original language is to step into a world of priests and kings, wandering rabbis…
Find out more »Beginning Biblical Hebrew
An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Price: tbc Reading the Old Testament in the language in which it was written is to open a window into a different world and times. We are as a culture more than 3,000 years distant from the nomadic tribes who wandered the Middle East from amongst whom emerged a radical new understanding of Creation and the Creator. Learning to read Biblical Hebrew is an adventure in difference. Ancient Hebrew is linguistically distant from European…
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Can Church Schools survive the inroads of secular society? Canon Dr Anne Holt OBE.
Find out more »Fierce Imaginings – God and the Great War
Canon Rachel Mann is a priest in the diocese of Manchester with a long fascination for the Great war of 1914-1918. As we come to the end of a four reflecting upon that conflict and the effect it had on the world and those who experienced it we welcome Canon rachel to help us explore the question: What effect did the Great War have on the perception of God and the Church. It has been suggested that the concept of…
Find out more »What is Truth?
Our series exploring what it means to be Doing Truth is drawn to a close by Canon Bill Cave MA. Bill Cave has spent most of his ministry as a chaplain, first at a University but latterly, and for much longer, in the prison service. He has served as the convener of the European Region of the International Prison Chaplains' Association. In more recent years and until his retirement in 2017 he led the multi-faith chaplaincy team at The Verne…
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