Fridays during Trinity Term
Location: Old Library / Hybrid with Zoom link
12.45pm - 1.30pm
This term, we will be studying the Book of Genesis with the help of Marilynne Robinson’s Reading Genesis. It is a book which takes us through the story of Creation, the Fall and the loss of Eden, the account of the Flood and, then the disruption of human unity at Babel. According to Robinson, to explore these stories ‘is not to say that they happened or that they didn’t happen, but that their sequence is an articulation of a complex statement about reality.’ Time and again the stories we find in Genesis help us to think about what it means to be human. ‘The book of Genesis begins with the emergence of Being in a burst of light and ends with the death and burial of a bitter, homesick old man.’ Come and join us as we explore this text in all its wonder and complexity. Tea and coffee are provided.
Friday 18 October Genesis 1 - Creation
Friday 25 October Genesis 2-3, The Fall
Friday 1 November Genesis 6 and 9, The Flood
Friday 8 November Genesis 11, The Tower of Babel
Friday 15 November Genesis 15 and 16, Abram
Friday 22 November Genesis 18, Sodom
Friday 29 November Genesis 22, The sacrifice of Isaac
Friday 6 December Genesis 32, Jacob and his Progeny
