Away from Home, Stories of Faith in a Strange Land

Speaker(s): Iain Provan
Date: Sept. 23-25, 2005
Length: 2:18:58
Product ID: RGDL3532S

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At the annual Regent College Warm Beach Retreat Iain talks of journeys and how God uses them to develop our faith. The talks focus on how dislocation becomes God's opportunity to mold and shape us into the person He wants us to be. A series of 3 lectures drawing on the stories of Abraham, of Jacob and of the twenty-third Psalm:

  • The Story of Abraham
  • The Story of Jacob
  • The Story of the 23rd Psalm

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Iain W. Provan is the E. Marshall Shepherd Professor of Biblical Studies (Old Testament) at Regent College. He has previously taught at King's College London, the University of Wales, and the University of Edinburgh. He is author of Seriously Dangerous Religion: What the Old Testament Really Says and Why it Matters, Convenient Myths: The Axial Age, Dark Green Religion, and the World that Never Was, commentaries on 1 & 2 Kings, Ecclesiastes & Song of Songs, and Lamentations, and co-author (with V. Phillips Long and Tremper Longman III) of A Biblical History of Israel. He is also a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge.

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