The Christianity Seminar Spring Meeting: MEDIA & MESSAGE

Create a short one line description of the Christianity Seminar's Spring Conference: The Westar Christianity Seminar’s spring 2025 meeting will examine the forms of media that gradually made Jesus-followers the "people of a particular book." Book production, and various “canon”-forming initiatives, played a significant role in defining and contesting “Christian” identities, with some books accepted as authoritative and brought into interpretive relation to each other, while others were excluded. Apocryphal scripture-like productions competed with emerging genres of biblical commentaries and homilies. At the same time, other types of knowledge transmission, such as oral teachings and works of art, thrived and afforded still different understandings of Christianity. Papers and discussions at our spring meeting will take up these topics, including contributions by AnneMarie Luijendijk, Matthew Crawford, Kristine Toft Rosland, and Celene Lillie.