Bible & Spirituality Seminar.. 15th Feb

Dispirited: Does Contemporary Spirituality Make Us Stupid, Selfish & Unhappy?


In a first for me, I'll be giving a (free) public lecture as part of the Bible & Spirituality seminar series here at Gloucestershire..

I have also have a blog on this topic at http://dispirited.org/

There is an open invite at: http://www.facebook.com/events/336044036422582/ - feel free to respond..


Details below..

• • When

    Wednesday, 15 February 2012
  • Time

    17:30 until 19:00

• Where

  FCH Campus, Room TC007, Swindon Road, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

• Description

  Does Spirituality Make Us Stupid, Selfish & Unhappy? A talk, and discussion, as part of the Bible & Spirituality Seminar Series. The talk will begin with an assessment of "non-religious spirituality", and conclude with a plea for a critical, existentialist, atheism.

'Spirituality and the Emotions in Early Christianity'

SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES: Bible and Spirituality Research Seminar
 Dr. Stephen Barton
Durham University

Thursday 3 November
5.30-7.00
TC007
Francis Close Hall

All welcome

Dr. Barton was until recently Reader in the Dept of Theology and Religion, in the University of Durham. He is the author of The Spirituality of the Gospels (SPCK, 1992), and has just published ‘Eschatology and the Emotions in Early Christianity’, Journal of Biblical Literature 133 (2011).