Douglas Knight

The Tyndale Kirby Laing Institute of Christian Ethics is co-hosting two day conferences
Responding to Secularism: Christian Witness in a Dogmatic Public Culture 24 April 2009, Tyndale House, Cambridge – a day conference on mission and contemporary culture with the Gospel and Our Culture Network
Dr Dominic Erdozain (King’s College, London) on the growth of secularity in [...]

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Fertility and Faith – A day conference, with talks, Q&A and panel discussion, on fertility, infertility, marriage and love
Saturday 21st February from 10am in the Catholic Chaplaincy, Oxford
Fertility and Faith: An introduction – Fr Tim Finigan (Founder, Association of Priests for the Gospel of Life)
Marriage and Meaning – Anthony McCarthy (Research Fellow, Linacre Centre for [...]

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The Battle for Truth, God and the Universe, Stories of Evolution, Body and Soul
Four Public Dialogues in St Paul’s Cathedral
Tuesday 7, 14, 21, 28 October 6.30 – 8.00pm
Nancy Cartwright
Nicholas Lash
John Milbank
Roger Trigg
David Burrell
Frances Young
Steve Jones
Alister McGrath
John Polkinghorne
Keith Ward
Robert Winston
I [...]

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Third Annual National Theology of the Body conference – in Dublin
For Theology of the Body in the UK, it is off to London Colney (25-26 October) with Faith and Family.
Resources for Natural Family Planning Awareness Week are available from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. Our own Robert Colquhoun offers some resources [...]

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The Society for the Study of Christian Ethics 2008 2008 Annual Conference is 5th-7th September at Westcott House, Cambridge. The conference theme is The Sermon on the Mount
Rt Hon John Battle – MP, Leeds, Former Faith Advisor to the Prime Minister
Richard Bauckham – Professor Emeritus of New Testament, University of St Andrews
Carolyn Muessig – [...]

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Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics Annual Book Colloquium
3-4 September 2008 Tyndale House, Cambridge
A one-day colloquium on Brian Brock’s Singing the Ethos of God: On the Place of Christian Ethics in Scripture
Bernd Wannenwetsch
Gordon Wenham
Hans Reinders
Brian Brock
It was Brian who showed me Augustine’s theology of the Whole Christ

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International Society for MacIntyrean Philosophy – Revolutionary Aristotelianism, Thomism, Virtue Theory, Social Theory, and Politics
Theory, Practice, and Tradition: Human Rationality in Pursuit of the Good Life July 30 through August 3, 2008 St. Meinrad, Indiana, USA
You know Alasdair MacIntyre is a Brit? We’ll have him back when you have finished with him.

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A conference on the theology of John Owen

Westminster College
Cambridge, UK
19–22 August 2008
Willem van Asselt
Utrecht University, Holland
Stephen R Holmes
St Mary’s College, University of St Andrews, UK
Michael S Horton
Westminster Seminary, California, USA
George Hunsinger
Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey, USA
Kelly M Kapic
Covenant College, Georgia, USA
Suzanne MacDonald
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, USA
Sebastian Rehnman
Johannelunds Theological Seminary, Sweden
Alan Spence
United Reformed Church, London, UK
Carl [...]

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Reconciliation in Christ? Atonement and Sacrifice
Touchstones of disunity or the pathway to communion?

Saturday 14 June 2008 10.30 – 3pm
Cheyneygates, Dean’s Yard
Westminster Abbey, London SW1
Canon Nicholas Sagovsky
Westminster Abbey
Douglas Knight
Theologian and Author

The doctrine of the atonement has been controversial within Anglican thinking in recent years, marking the different principles held by [...]

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The Pope and Jesus of Nazareth
19th and 20th June 2008 Nottingham
The publication of the book Jesus of Nazareth on 16 April 2007 was an unprecedented event: never before had a reigning Pope published personal reflections on Jesus.
The book engages not just with New Testament scholarship but also with fundamental methodological questions related to [...]

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Saint Paul’s Journeys into Philosophy:An International Conference

Vancouver School of Theology at the University of British Columbia Vancouver June 4-6, 2008
Join us for a conference which explores the critical appropriations of Saint Paul by recent and contemporary Continental philosophers, including Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin, Jacob Taubes, Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben, Slavoj Zizek, and others. An
international group [...]

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The Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture Fall conference 2008 is on
The Family: Searching for Fairest Love
Only the truth will prepare you for a love which can be called ‘fairest love.’ Pope John Paul II Letter to Families

We are mindful of the fundamental role played by the family in civil [...]

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The Centre of Theology and Philosophy
presents
The Grandeur of Reason: Religion, Tradition and Universalism
1-4 September 2008 Rome
The Pope’s argument for an enlarged sense of reason is an argument for a re-hellenization of reason. In this context the universalism of Christianity has a concrete role to play as that particular cultural exemplar of the [...]

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The Tyndale Fellowship groups – OT, NT, Biblical Theology, Doctrine and more – meet in Cambridge in July.
‘Political Theology’ is the theme for the Ethics and Social Theology group. Papers include
Jonathan Chaplin The Bible, the State and Religious Diversity: Theological Foundations for ‘Principled Pluralism’
David McIlroy The Right Reason [...]

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All Saints St Margaret Street School of Worship 2007-8
THE LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST

Peace and Preparation of the Table
Wednesday 12 March 7pm
Giving Thanks – The Eucharistic Prayer
Wednesday 9 April 7pm
Breaking of the Bread and Holy Communion
Wednesday 7 May 7pm
Blessing and Dismissal
Wednesday 11 June 7pm
St Margaret’s goes large in Oxford Street

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Professor Walter Moberly of Durham University
Like any other book? How should the bible be read? The Ethel M Wood Lecture
6th March 5.30pm The Council Room, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS

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Fulcrum Conference – Conflict and Covenant
Saturday 12 April 2008, 10am to 4pm
Dr Tom Wright
Bishop of Durham and Member of the Lambeth Commission which prepared The Windsor Report
Dr Andrew Goddard
Editor of Anvil, Member of the Faith and Order Advisory Group
Union Chapel, Upper Street, Islington, London

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A conference on the theology of John Owen
Westminster College
Cambridge, UK
19–22 August 2008

An increasing number of scholars from a wide range of disciplines are finding the thought of John Owen to be a fertile field for study. Nine of them will be presenting papers on his work at Westminster College, home to the original copy [...]

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Society for the Study of Theology
Theology and Politics – 2008 conference

St John’s College, Durham
31 March – 3 April 2008
Oliver O’Donovan
John Milbank
Charles Mathewes (A Theology of Public Life and Evil and the Augustinian Tradition)
and there’s the Spring Harvest Christian Eschatology and Contemporary Culture day conference
Saturday 26th January Kings College London

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Beyond Paley: Renewing the Vision for Natural Theology

Conference on Natural Theology, Oxford 23-25th June 2008
Keith Ward
Richard Swinburne
Christopher Rowland
Jeremy Begbie
John Haught
Alister McGrath
Peter Harrison

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