1.
Family Tree Reports continue.
2. Continue to
watch
The Unknown Jesus.
As a continuation of the previous class session, we examine the
conclusion to the life of Jesus. Jesus is perceived as: Savior to His own
people; and Revolutionary to the Roman peoples. Today's video is about the
intertwining of religion and politics. We are looking, not at theology, but at
the politics surrounding the Passover supper and the subsequent events
surrounding Easter Sunday. The video may give you insights into the answer to
"Was it the Jews or was it the Romans who were responsible for the death of
Jesus?" You will have an opportunity to see the Via Delorossa (the street of
the way of sorrows taken by Jesus on His final journey), keeping in mind, that
such paths were determined as best they could be some 300 years after the actual
event. The video also examines the split between James (who felt that the
Church was a continuation of Judaism for Jewish peoples, and Paul (who felt that
the Church was a continuation of the teachings of Jesus for all peoples, both
Jewish and non-Jewish).
3. Meet with your team and
discuss your
answers to the homework from the previous class session.
1. Good history may sometimes be bad theology, and good
theology may result in bad history. The purpose of including these videos
in your experience is to broaden your thinking to the possibility of ideas
beyond those you may currently hold.
2. It seems paradoxical that clinging tenaciously to one
set of beliefs sometimes results in excluding or remaining intolerant of the
antithetical views held by others. These videos do not ask you to reject
your own belief system, but to increase your tolerance for those whose ideas may
be different from your own.
3. In regard to your homework reading from the last class
regarding "Building the World New" Meade writes: What must we do?
We must go to school to other cultures, analyze them and rationalize our
findings. We must
find models and patterns which orchestrated together on a world scale,
will make a world as different from
the old as the machine world was from the craft industries of the Middle Ages.
If we are to learn from all these peoples, it is necessary that they
should continue to maintain their own way of life.
(page 149-150)
To be culturally tolerant
does not mean that we must have no standards.
As long as there is anywhere in the world a center of infectious
intolerance for a race or a sex, an age group or an occupation, a caste or a
class, or for those who profess one religion rather than another, all of us are
endangered. (page 152-153)
Only if they are incurable do we continue to segregate them.
(page 155)
1. Read Chapter Thirty-Two "Cross-Cultural Differences in
Sexual Jealousy" pages 171-174 in
Cross-Cultural Perspectives in America.
Answer the following questions in your notebook:
