Date
Wednesday, 13 Apr 2016 7:00 PM
Sign up here: http://www.meetup.com/Marietta-Atheists-Meetup/events/229324835/ On April 13, 2016 Ratio Christi at Kennesaw State University and Atheists, Humanists, and Agnostics at KSU will co-host a public moderated debate between Dr. Richard Carrier and Dr. Craig Evans on the topic “Did Jesus Exist?” As part of thee debate there will be an open mic Q and A with the audience. This event is free and open to the public. Location: Social Sciences Auditorium 1021
Time: 7:00 pm
Parking: West Parking Deck. Following the debate, there will be books sales and signing in the Social Sciences Atrium with refreshments available. About speakers:
Dr. Richard Carrier:
Richard Carrier is a world-renowned secular author and speaker. He is the author of books such as On the Historicity of Jesus, Proving History, Sense and Goodness without God, Not the Impossible Faith, and Why I Am Not a Christian, Hitler Homer Bible Christ, and a contributor to The Empty Tomb, The Christian Delusion, The End of Christianity, and Christianity Is Not Great. Dr. Carrier earned a PhD at Colombia University in ancient history. He specializes in the intellectual history of Greece and Rome, particularly ancient philosophy, religion, and science, with emphasis on the origins of Christianity and the use and progress of science under the Roman Empire. He is currently working on several upcoming projects, but also teaching affordable online courses in secular philosophy, history, and methodology at Partners for Secular Activism, and blogging and speaking about history, philosophy, feminism, and other moral causes. His website is www.richardcarrier.info
Dr. Craig Evans:
Dr. Craig Evans is a New Testament scholar and an internationally distinguished authority and lecturer on the historical Jesus. He is the John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins at Houston Baptist University in Houston, Texas. Dr. Evans received his M.Div. from Western Baptist Seminary in Portland, Oregon, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from Claremont Graduate University in southern California. He has also been awarded the D.Habil. by the Karoli Gaspard Reformed University in Budapest. Dr. Evans is author or editor of over 70 books and over 600 scholarly studies. He regularly lectures and gives talks at popular conferences and retreats on the historical Jesus, Archaeology, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible. Dr. Evans is a member of the Institute for Biblical Research, the Society of Biblical Literature, and the prestigious Society of New Testament Studies. He has served as the editor-in-chief of the Bulletin for Biblical Research, and has served on several editorial boards of journals and scholarly monograph series. He is a regular guest on many national media outlets, including NBC, The History Channel, The Discovery Channel, and BBC. His website is craigevans.com
Moderator: Dr. Brian Swain:
Dr. Brian Swain is a historian of the ancient Mediterranean world. He teaches courses on the Greek, Roman, and medieval pasts and on pre-modern history more broadly at Kennesaw State University. Swain received his doctoral training in Greek and Roman history, and he is a specialist in late antiquity (c. 300 – 700 AD), the liminal period that witnessed the transformation and eventual fall of the Roman empire and the emergence of the post-Roman societies of medieval Europe. His research focuses on the complex interactions between Romans and barbarians, and engages the questions of ethnicity and identity that arose from their cultural convergence. He has published papers on Jordanes, the sixth-century AD historian of the Goths, and on Ostrogothic Italy. His current book project, Empire of Hope and Tragedy: Jordanes and the Invention of Roman-Gothic History, is a study of Jordanes’ historical corpus, the Gothic War in Italy, and the nature of barbarian and Roman identities.