SUN course: Messianism - Jewish and Christian Perspectives
Date:
July 5, 2010 - 08:45 - July 16, 2010 - 16:45 Event type:
Seminar Event audience:
Open to the Public CEU organizer(s):
Matthias Riedl CEU contact person:
Matthias Riedl Phone:
+36 1 327-3000 x 2307 E-mail:
Email contact form This Summer University course will explore the ancient messianic idea, its spatial expansion, and its ideational development up to the present. The topic will be approached from a wide variety of disciplines (Political Science, History, Philosophy, Anthropology), sharing a common focus on the messiah as a central and enduring symbol of Jewish and Christian societies and their interconnected eschatological expectations.