Douglas Knight

Through the Holy Spirit comes our restoration to paradise, our ascension into the kingdom of heaven, our return to the adoption of sons, our liberty to call God our Father, our being made partakers of the grace of Christ, our being called children of light, our sharing in eternal glory, and, in a word, our [...]

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It is perhaps our usual assumption that we exist first, and then that we love. But let us imagine that our existence depends on our relationship with those we love. The more we love, or the more we are loved, the more existence or reality we acquire. Our being derives from the company of those [...]

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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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When we refer to the remembering of the future we part ways with the whole Western intellectual tradition. The Church confesses that Holy Spirit brings the future breaking in to history. Our kingdoms are founded on opposition to one another, each kingdom is in competition with every other. The peace of God, sustained by the [...]

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The Lawyers Christian Fellowship and Christian Concern for our Nation are holding a day conference on 28th January
The legal challenges faced by Islam: How should the church respond?
Democracy in the UK and worldwide is being challenged by a new force – that of militant Islam. This conference will look at some of the issues [...]

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Christians shape the liturgy, but the liturgy shapes Christians.
The classical model of formation, paideia, understood formation to be the drawing out of the person. Placed alongside the Christian experience of vocation, it can be seen in terms of our becoming, in community with others and in communion with God, the person that God is calling [...]

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To suffer with the other and for others; to suffer for the sake of truth and justice; to suffer out of love and in order to become a person who truly loves — these are fundamental elements of humanity, and to abandon them would destroy man himself.
Are we capable of this? Is the other important [...]

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How then should the Lambeth Conference be viewed? It is not a canonical tribunal, but neither is it merely a general consultation. It is a meeting of the chief pastors and teachers of the Communion, seeking an authoritative common voice. It is also a meeting designed to strengthen and deepen the sense [...]

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These three ecclesiologies are, in order of their historical appearance, rite‐based ecclesiologies (Catholic), confessional ecclesiologies (Protestant), and ethnically based ecclesiologies (Orthodox).
These three ecclesiologies, are essentially of the same nature: that is, they are established according to aggressive, almost militant, principles. Moreover, they have dominated Church life since their appearance and also determined the statutory texts [...]

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The Sermon on the Mount and Christian Ethics – a conference 5th-7th September, Wescott House, Cambridge
Presenters include:
Oliver O’Donovan
Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology
Edinburgh University
Glen Stassen
Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics
Fuller Theological Seminary
Susan Parsons
President, Society Study of Christian Ethics
Editor, Studies in Christian Ethics
Carolyn Muessig
Senior Lecturer in Medieval Theology
University of Bristol
Richard Bauckham
Professor Emeritus of [...]

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Christians have a relationship of direct and personal familiarity with the Church and the saints. The relationship involves our entire being. Yet when someone lights a candle or makes an offering, you will often hear the remark that such an action is meaningless if that person is not thinking the right set of thoughts. But [...]

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I have been particularly concerned at reports of the decline in the proportion of Christians in the [Middle East] region and the displacement of ancient and established communities. The effects of this tragic situation, about which I have spoken here in the UK as well as in the region on several occasions, are felt not [...]

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Each version of the modern day Santa Claus derives in fact from the same historic person: the Bishop Nicholas from the city of Myra (an ancient city of modern day Turkey), who lived in Asia Minor between the III and IV century, during the Emperor Constantine’s reign who is said to have regularly given gifts [...]

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In our own country, it seems to be assumed by many that if we could only get the relation between ‘faith communities’ right, social harmony would inevitably follow. And conversely, any expression of a belief that one’s own religious loyalty is absolute, any statement of the belief that I, as a Christian or a Muslim [...]

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How does this dual psychology – of victimhood, but also the desire for domination – come to infect so many young Muslims in Britain? In the late 1980s, the situation had changed radically. The change occurred because successive governments were unaware that the numerous mosques being established across the length and breadth of this [...]

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Conference on Bible and Justice
29 May – 1 June, 2008
Stanley Hauerwas
Timothy Gorringe
John Rogerson
The 2008 Conference on Bible and Justice will bring together scholars from around the world to explore how the ancient texts of the Bible can play an active role in addressing twenty-first century social concerns. The purpose of the conference is to foster [...]

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The Church — the communion of faith and love (as St. Ignatius of Antioch defined it: henosis agapis kai pisteos), the community of saints who are Christ’s own very “members” as his body and bride – is essential to our human being and life. We cannot be human beings – still less, Christians and saints [...]

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To the priests and deacons of the Diocese who share with fraternal compassion my concern for the poor;to the religious men and women, whose service to the poor has strengthened Christ’s presence in Oklahoma for more than its hundred years; to the lay faithful who strive with unwavering dedication to live the Gospel that gives [...]

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It was in this classical tradition of the Early Church that Karl Barth took his position early in his theological career. His road into it was through his struggle, begun in his Swiss parish, over the nature and content of divine Revelation, as he sought to expound the Scriptures and proclaim the Word of [...]

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