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November 2020
Tim Gordon “The changing song of the sea: despair, faith and hope in an age of environmental destruction” (live lecture)
Tim Gordon is a marine biologist, studying the impacts of climate change on marine life from the Arctic Ocean to the Great Barrier Reef. In this lecture, Tim will share stories of praise inspired by the wonders of God’s creation, despair at our destructive impact on ecosystems worldwide, and faith-based hope for the future of the natural world.
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Revd Dr Malcolm Guite “Christ and the Poetic Imagination” (live lecture)
Malcolm Guite will explore the links and analogies between the working of the poetic imagination and the understanding of Christ as Word made Flesh. In particular, he will look at how far an understanding of the Logos, and the doctrine of incarnation may underpin and give grounding to works of literary art and imagination. Malcolm will look at how Shakespeare’s account of the poetic imagination in a Midsummer Night’s Dream borrows strongly from the language about incarnation in John’s Gospel. After…
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February 2021
March 2021
Prof. Keith Elliott “What makes a book ‘holy scripture’?” (live lecture)
Professor Elliott will concentrate on the New Testament but will discuss why, for instance, the Gospel of Thomas or the so-called gnostic gospels (which Dan Smith relied on to claim that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene) are not ‘holy scripture’.
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Revd Ian Parkinson (Leadership Specialist, CPAS) “For the equipping of the saints: the gift of Christian leadership” (live lecture)
Effectiveness in leadership is not measured so much by what any leader achieves but rather by whom they raise up and equip for service. The development and empowering of others certainly seems to have been a top priority for Jesus and those who followed after him. With particular reference to his example, in this session we will unpack the NT leadership emphasis on growing others in discipleship and ministry, and explore what this might mean for us today.
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