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SVS News / Re: SAVE THE DATE! SVS 2020 in Chicago, IL, USA
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The SVS Program Committee is pleased to announce
the Call For Papers for the SVS 2020 Annual Meeting,
being held April 16-18, 2020
at Evanston Vineyard in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The central theme of this year’s meeting is “Hearing, Seeing, and Remembering As The People of God.” Together we will explore hearing, seeing, and remembering as theological, biblical, spiritual, pastoral, historical, and embodied practices.
This year, our broad interdisciplinary conversations will focus around the following themes:
Seminar-style conversations will focus on (at least) the following topics,:
This year, in partnership with Vineyard Justice Network, SVS 2020 will feature several sessions that explore the intersections of our theological investigation with the practical work of pursuing God’s justice.
Finally, as always, we welcome artistic engagements with any of the conference themes.
To see a full description of these themes, as well as to find out how to submit proposals to SVS 2020, download the Call For Papers today.
All proposals are due by January 15, 2020.
For all the most current information and all further details about SVS 2020, visit [url]https://www.vineyardscholars.org/annual-conference/[/url] More will follow soon, including registration information, hotel information, travel information, etc.
For now, check out the Call For Papers and think about what you will propose!
See you in Chicago!
The Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8:26-40 is often understood by modern interpreters as incapable of being Jewish, either because he is Ethiopian or because he is a eunuch. In this paper, I review the major scholarly positions on the Ethiopian eunuch’s religious identity, then I analyze the literary structure of Acts with this question in mind, and finally I consider possible historical reconstructions of the Ethiopian eunuch’s background. I argue that the best understanding of the Ethiopian eunuch’s religious identity is that he is Jewish. This understanding aligns with Luke’s portrayal of God’s activity among people with many different national belongings, both within God’s chosen people of Israel historically and within the emerging Christian community which Luke views as being in continuity with it. This understanding also matches Luke’s depiction of marginal figures who are part of God’s people and are able to become disciples of Jesus, even before God’s revelation to Peter that Gentiles too may be included. The Ethiopian eunuch is thus not only capable of being Jewish, even while having a diaspora nationality and a marginal sexual status, but also an important part of Luke’s message that God’s people has always been richly diverse.
This paper discusses some of the unique challenges that trauma poses to the experience of faith, hope, and love in the church. It explores some of the fruitful integrative overlap found between the respective pursuits of holistic healing in the Vineyard and in EMDR, a particularly powerful form of psychotherapy used to treat the often faith-, hope-, and love-inhibiting impacts of trauma and other adverse life experiences. The paper begins with some foundational education about the nature and impacts of trauma (attentive to some relevant theological and ecclesiological intersections), progresses to an exploration of the purposes, processes, and theoretical underpinnings of EMDR psychotherapy, and closes with an integrative discussion addressing some noteworthy similarities between EMDR and the Vineyard prayer model.