Douglas Knight

In The Eschatological Economy, Douglas Knight avoids the defensiveness of much recent theology and presents the Christian faith as a bold challenge to modernity. He takes Kant and Hegel to task for down-playing the significance of the particular, and urges the Church to proclaim God’s eschatological promises to a world increasingly devoid of hope.
Knight begins [...]

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14th November – Rev Dr Graham Tomlin, St Paul’s Theological Centre
27th February – Rev Dr Steven Croft, Fresh Expressions
21st May – Rev Dr Steve Griffiths, Ridley Hall’s Director of Youth Work
Training
deepchurch.org.uk

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The presence of the Church, not as a clamorous interest group but as a community confident of its rootedness in something beyond the merely political, expresses a vision of human dignity and mutual human obligation which, because of its indifference to popular success or official legitimation, poses to every other community a special sort of [...]

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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has announced a new higher degree programme as an expansion of the Archbishop’s Examination in Theology. Applications for PhD and MPhil degrees in Theology will be accepted from early 2008 with the first awards of the new MPhil degrees anticipated in 2012 and Doctorates shortly afterwards. Candidates will [...]

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The sanctified disciplines of the Church represent a far more sophisticated hermeneutics than is available to our secular colleagues. The Church is the communion sanctified by the Spirit for the world, and the saints and teachers are sanctified for the church, and so dedicated to the task of keeping the church distinct from the world [...]

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Oliver O’Donovan has given three lectures at New College, University of New South Wales
Morally awake? Admiration and resolution in the light of Christian faith

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We are facing great dangers as a society. An excessive emphasis on the rights of individuals not only dissolves those institutions in which we learn and grow as persons but also paradoxically it entails a huge extension of state surveillance and regulation. Regulation is increasingly necessary as social bonds erode, to order the traffic and [...]

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Philosophy and Liturgy: Ritual, Practice, and Embodied Wisdom

May 20-22, 2008 at Calvin College
This conference brings together leading scholars in philosophy and theology to investigate key themes in worship with the tools of philosophy, with the ultimate goal of informing Christian practice. There is also the reciprocal goal of letting Christian liturgical practice become a fund [...]

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The Christians present in the United Arab Emirates represent about 35 percent of the population, for a total of more than a million faithful, a majority of them Catholic.
They are all immigrant workers, and many of them, because they live on the outskirts and don’t have easy transportation access to the city, cannot regularly attend [...]

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Another Anglican forum has just launched
We are a gathering of evangelical and catholic Christians, seeking to renew the center of the Christian tradition in North America and particularly within Anglicanism, acting as a point of balance within the diversity that is Anglicanism in North America. We embrace a historic orthodoxy that is generous in spirit, [...]

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The Bishop of London and the Bishop of Chelmsford, The Rt Revd John Gladwin today announced the formation of a new training college aimed at strengthening the church’s mission in the dioceses of London and Chelmsford.
The new college will be named St Mellitus College and will incorporate some of the excellent ministerial training that is [...]

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