In 1873 Archbishop Philotheos Bryennios discovered the only surviving copy of a text called ‘The Didache’ or ‘The Teaching of the Lord, by the Twelve Apostles, to the Gentiles’. This…
Looking through the Kaleidoscope: Hebrews’ Use of Old Testament Narratives in the Light of Jesus’ Ascension and Awaited Return Hebrews’ engagement with the Old Testament is among the most exciting…
Mark Oakley addresses the questions, ‘How should Christians use language? How should they express their belief and what language is needed for self-scrutiny? He will then argue that poetry is…
A common conceptualisation of the current debate over sexuality is that it is one between traditionalists and revisionists. In this lecture, Mark Vasey-Saunders argues that this is based on a…
Watch on YouTube As we seek to live out the call of Micah to act justly, love mercy and walk humbly with God, what does it look like to meet…
Watch the lecture on YouTube: During the first and second centuries a group of miscellaneous Christian leaders wrote down their understanding of the meaning of Jesus Christ’s life, death and…
We are delighted to welcome back the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, who delighted us with back in 2014 with his lecture on the Gospel of John. This lecture…
We live and function in a capitalist society, but how often do we stop to examine and question the values and assumptions underlying this approach to economics, which has…
How St Benedict and Celtic spirituality is inspirational for these changing world times. It couldn’t be timelier as, in the words of Bob Dylan’s song, The Times They area Changin’, and…
Galileo famously quipped “The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven – not how heaven goes.” Jesus Ascension was not the same as…
Christians working with Muslims (and vice versa) face particular joys and challenges, not least in our global and national context in which Muslims are often spoken of negatively in the…
What is the presence of God? How do we come to know it? Is it possible to make sense of our experience in a way that honours both God and…
A Theological Reflection on the Place of Pilgrimage in the Christian Life
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…
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 Brown relied on to claim…
Despair, faith and hope in an age of environmental destruction Dr Tim Gordon is a marine biologist whose work has taken him from the Arctic Ocean to the Great Barrier…
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