Spirit Alive: Making Sense of the Atonement in Light of the New Cosmology

A five-week minicourse conducted by Dominican Sister of Sinsinawa Dr. Laurie Brink
Thursdays, Jan. 16 – Feb. 13
7:00 p.m. EST via Zoom

Beginning with Scripture, this course surveys the various interpretations of atonement and how reconciliation with God might be understood in an evolving universe. Topics to be explored include Sacrifice in the Ancient Near Eastern World, Israel’s relationship with God, Interpreting the Passion of Jesus, Ecclesial and Social implications, and the role of Cosmology and Evolution.

IMPORTANT – PLEASE NOTE: If you register for the first session of this five-week minicourse presentation, you are automatically registered for all five sessions within the course and will receive a link 24 hours before each session starts. You do not have to attend all sessions.

If you register for any session after the first, you are automatically registered for that session and the remaining sessions within the course. You will receive the link to join each session 24 hours before each session starts. You do not have to attend all sessions.

Registration is free.

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A Dominican Sister of Sinsinawa, Laurie Brink, Ph.D. (University of Chicago), is a professor of New Testament Studies and a New Testament Book review editor for The Bible Today. She teaches courses in the Gospels, Acts, NT Letters, and Early Christian literature. Her current research and pedagogical interests include contextualization and hermeneutics, particularly the intersection of science, theology, and religious life. As a Dominican, she is keenly interested in promoting biblical literacy, and to that end has given presentations throughout the United States and in Australia, Bolivia, Israel, Jamaica, New Zealand, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, Trinidad, and Tobago.

She has authored several books and articles, including:

• The Heavens are Telling the Glory of God: An Emerging Chapter for Religious Life;
  Science, Theology, and Mission (Liturgical Press, 2022)
• “‘For All the Earth’ (1 Cor 10:26): Mission and the Reign of God,” UISG Bulletin 117
  (April 2022): 5-20.
• “The Differences Among Us: The Results of a Survey of Women Religious and the
  New Cosmology,” Review for Religious 1.2 (2021): 257-272.
• What Does the Bible Say About Friendship (New City Press, 2019).