1997 TRIENNIAL CONFERENCE
Eschatology
The main papers from this conference have been published as a book: 'The Reader Must Understand' Eschatology in Bible and theology, edited by K. E. Brower and M. W. Elliott (Apollos, Leicester, 1997)
The Hayes Conference Centre Swanick Derbyshire - July 7th - 10th
MONDAY 7 JULY
3.00-3.30pm Arrival and Registration
Study Group Session One
Old Testament Lecture
Dr D. Block: Gog Magog in Ezekiel's Eschatological Vision
Biblical Archaeology Lecture: Dr David Gill, Rome, Rivalries and riots: Threats to urban life in the Greek Cities of the Roman East.
TUESDAY 8 JULY
Prayers
Study Group Session Two
Plenary Session One: Reverend H. Peskett, Mission and Eschatology
New Testament Lecture: K. Brower, 'Let the Reader Understand': Mark and Eschatology
Study Group Session Three
Biblical Theology Lecture: Rev. G.Grogan, The OT Concept of Solidarity as applied in the inaugurated eschatology of the epistle to the Hebrews
Christian Doctrine Lecture Professor R.J. Bauckham, Must Christian Eschatology be Millenarian?: A Response to Jurgen Moltmann.
WEDNESDAY 9 JULY
Prayers
Study Group Session Four
Plenary session Two: Mission, Science and the Future
Study Group Session Five
Ethics Lecture: Dr J. Chaplin, Can a Modern state be "Christian"?
Forum on Conditional Immortality
Earle.E.Ellis with responses from Dr T. Gray and Dr P. Head
THURSDAY 10 JULY
Prayers
Study Group Session Six
Conference Sermon, Communion, and Eschatological Celebration
Lunch
2.00pm Depart
STUDY GROUPS
OLD TESTAMENT GROUP SESSIONS
Mr Terence C. Mitchell, The Usage of qe=DF in Chronological Contexts'
Dr Knut Heim, 'The Old Testament in Revelation"
Dr Ernest C. Lucas, 'Science, Eschatology and the Cosmic Christ'
Professor Gordon P. Hugenberger, 'Why Did you say, "She is my sister?" A new proposal for an old crux in Genesis 12, 20, and 26'
Professor Richard Schultz ,'Looking for the Messiah in the new Jerusalem: Unity and Diversity in the Eschatological Vision of the Book of Isaiah'
Dr Philip Johnston, 'Personal Eschatology in the Old Testament
Planning session for new project: Fiction vs. History in the Old Testament
NEW TESTAMENT GROUP SESSIONS
Dr Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis, 'The Passing Away of Heaven and Earth (Mk 13.31 & parrs.) and the Destruction of the Temple (the Miniature Cosmos)'
Dr Eddie Adams, 'The Language of Cosmic Catastrophe'
Professor Greg Beale, 'The Eschatological Conception of New Testament Theology'
Respondent: Dr Philip Towner
Dr Peter Oakes, 'Christ, The Emperor, and the Eschatology in Philippians'
Dr Peter H. Davids, 'The Eschatology of 2 Peter and Jude'
Reverend Alan Garrow, 'The Eschatology of Revelation'
BIBLICAL THEOLOGY GROUP SESSIONS
Reverend Alistair Wilson, 'Marcus Borg's Non-Eschatological Jesus: A blurred Vision'
Reverend Gordon Thomas, 'A holy People in a Holy Place - the Enduring Eschatological Hope of the Scriptures'
Dr Peter Naylor, 'The Christian Hope- the Place of Land in the Christian Expectation'
Dr Gary Millar, 'Intimacy with God: Some Biblical/theological Reflections'
Open Forum
CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE STUDY GROUP
Reverend Julian Ward, 'Interpreting the Signs of the End'
Mr Mark Elliot, 'Apocalypse Commentaries towards the End of the First Millennium'
Dr Tony Gray, 'Visions of Hell'
Professor Stephen Williams, 'Thirty Years of Hope'
Dr Lawrence Osborn, 'Scientific Theological and the Future'
Professor Bruce Demarest, 'Spiritual-Institutional Theology as Structure for Eschatology'