Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favor that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it. Such confidence and knowledge of God's grace makes you happy, joyful and bold in your relationship to God and all creatures. The Holy Spirit makes this happen through faith. Because of it, you freely, willingly and joyfully do good to everyone, serve everyone, suffer all kinds of things, love and praise the God who has shown you such grace. - Martin Luther


Monday, September 7, 2009

Online course at Harvard

One of my professors at Luther Seminary has posted a link to an online course on world religions being taught by Diana Eck (of Harvard Divinity School) through Harvard's Extension School. Her first lecture is available for free, and it's quite interesting. In the last several minutes of the lecture she goes over the reading assignments for the course, and I'm planning to write them all down and start working my way through those materials I haven't read before. Let me know if you'd like a book/study group to work through some of them together.
Eck (who was born in Bozeman) is also the author of Encountering God: From Bozeman to Banaras.

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