18.12.2013
Church and Culture the Focus of BACI 2014 Lent Course
The Biblical Association for the Church of Ireland’s Lent Course on Church and Culture will be launched in Christ Church Cathedral Dublin on Thursday January 16 at 6.00 pm and in St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, on Monday January 20.
For the past three years BACI has provided a Lenten Bible study resource which has been linked to the Anglican Communion’s Bible in the Life of the Church Project on the subjects of creation, economic justice and gender justice. That project has now concluded and this year BACI has chosen the subject Church and culture. These studies have been developed with the Revd Dr Ron Elsdon from a series he designed for Connor Diocese.
In their forward to the 2014 study, Drs Ginnie Kennerley and William Olhausen say that the Church’s relation to its surrounding culture is a perennial question for Christians but it is one of increasing urgency today when the gap between the internal life of the churches and the culture in which they are set has been widening at an alarming rate.
The Bible studies come under the headings Affirmation and Celebration, Definition and Separation, Understanding and Compassion, Faithfulness and Service and Lifestyle and Proclamation.
Printed copies of the Lent Course can be made available at a modest cost and e–copies will also be downloadable without charge from the BACI website <www.bibliahibernica.wordpress.com> from mid January.