SNIPPETS FROM THE SAINTS READINGS

This Spring I am facilitating a Sunday School class for adults in our congregation. The class is called "Snippets from the Saints" and I have thoroughly enjoyed creating 2-5 page historical background and reading summaries for the class. Week by week we read at home and then come to class to discuss biblical frameworks, biblical texts used by the saints, and contemporary theological issues both "then" in the saint's day and "now" in our own.  I thought I'd post the reading "syllabus" here. Contact me via jbu email if any of my blog readers who aren't in the FPC-SS class would like to have me send you the readings.  I'd be glad to !

WEEK	DATE	SAINT AND SUMMARY OF SNIPPET
0	1/13	B’fast Intro: Didache, an Apostolic Bridge, “the teaching of the twelve”
1	1/20	Ignatius of Antioch, b. AD 35, d. 108
2	1/27	Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna b.69, d. 155
3	2/3	Justin Martyr, Greek Apologist, b. 100, d. 165
4	2/10	Epistle to Diognetus by Mathetes (?) b. 130, d. 200
5	2/17	Irenaeus of Lyon, b. 140 d. 202
6	2/24	Athanasius of Alexandria, b. 296, d. 373
7	3/3	Augustine of Hippo, b. 354, d. 340
8	3/10 DL Save	Pope Leo the Great, (440-461) and the Council of Chalcedon AD 451
9	3/17	NO CLASS FOR FALL BREAK
10	3/24	Ratramnus, French Monk, b. 800, d. 868
11	3/31	Anselm of Canterbury, b. 1033 (Italy), d. 1109 (UK)
12	4/7	Thomas Aquinas, b. 1225, d. 1274 (Dominican, Italy)
13	4/14 Palm Sun	Jan Hus, b. 1370, d. 1415 (Czech) & John Wycliffe, b. 1330, d. 1384 (English)
14	4/21 Easter	Martin Luther, German Reformer, b. 1483, d. 1546
15	4/28	John Calvin, French Reformer, b. 1509, d. 1564
16	5/5	John Wesley, b. 1703, d. 1791 & Charles Wesley, b. 1707, d. 1788 (English)
17	5/12	Friedrich Schleiermacher, (German) father of Protestant Liberalism, b. 1768, d. 1834
18	5/19	Karl Barth (Swiss) b. 1886, d. 1968