GODS OF THE MARKETPLACE: How Inhabitants of the Roman Empire Made the Workplace Spiritual with DR. HARRY O. MAIER, PROFESSOR OF NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES AT VANCOUVER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY

The Roman Empire workplace was one of spiritual practice, devotion and belonging.  

Ancient guilds were a place for workers to gather over meals, make deals, worship and, at the end of their days, even find a decent burial spot.

Rapid urbanization and the dislocation of rural populations made the ancient workplace a kind of home away from home - and a home for the homeless since tradespeople gave up title to traditional modes of belonging in order to follow the seaways and highways of imperial commerce.

What we can learn about our own workplace (increasingly our own homes away from home) will also help us to understand much of what New Testament authors hope for the Church. 

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Thursday JUNE 15   12:15pm – 1:30pm

Location: Main Floor, Terasen Gas Building
1111 West Georgia (at Thurlow), Vancouver BC

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About Dr. Harry Maier

Harry O. Maier joined Vancouver School of Theology in 1994 with a doctorate from Oxford University. He is a Senior Fellow of Green College, UBC, a life-long Fellow of the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation, and an international lecturer.

He is a native Albertan, the author of award-winning books, his most recent being "The Book of Revelation after Christendom" (Fortress, 2004), and dozens of articles.

His present focus is in the use of art in constructing ancient identities amongst the Roman Empire's Christian working poor.

Research fellowships regularly take him to Heidelberg, Oxford, and now with a fellowship to research Fundamentalism, Ecology, and the Book of Revelation in popular culture – to Exeter, England.


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or phone: 604.685.6560

Thursday JUNE 15
12:15pm – 1:30pm

Location: Main Floor, Terasen Gas Building
1111 West Georgia (at Thurlow), Vancouver BC

click here to RSVP   or phone: 604.685.6560

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