2003 TRIENNIAL CONFERENCE
Monday 30th June - Thursday 3rd July 2003
At Regents Park Conference Centre, Nantwich
'Covenant in Bible and Theology'
Provisional programme:
MONDAY 30 JUNE
3.00 on - Arrival and Registration
4.00 - Prayers
4.15 - Plenary 1 - David L. Baker - ‘Covenant, Covenant Renewal and the New Covenant’.
6.00 - Dinner
7.30 - Plenary 2 - Chris Wright - ‘Covenant in the light of the Mission of God and of God’s People’.
TUESDAY 1 JULY
7.30 - Prayers
8.15 - Breakfast
9.00 - Study Groups - 1.
11.00 - Coffee
11.30 - Tyndale NT Lecture - Eddie Adams - ‘The Coming of the Son of Man in the Gospels’ + Tyndale PR Lecture - Daniel Hill - ‘Language, Truth, and Scripture’.
1.00 - Lunch
2.15 - Study Groups - 2
4.00 - Tea
4.30 - Plenary 3 - Simon Gathercole - 'The Covenant between Father and Son in Hebrews and Mark'
6.00 - Dinner
7.30 - Tyndale Biblical Archaeology (NT) Lecture - Bruce Winter - ‘NT off the Rocks - Constituions and Covenants’
Tyndale Biblical Theology Lecture - Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis - 'A Brief History of the Incarnation?"
WEDNESDAY 2 JULY
7.30 - Prayers
8.15 - Breakfast
9.00 - Study Groups - 3
11.00 - Coffee
11.30 - Tyndale OT Lecture - Deryck Sheriffs - ‘Permanence and Perpetuity: the Human Need for Continuity-ANE and OT Perspectives' + Tyndale CD Lecture - Paul Bassett - ‘John Wesley and social holiness’.
1.00- Lunch
3.30 - Tea
4.00 - Study Groups - 4
6.00 - Dinner
7.30 - Tyndale RCC Lecture - Colin Chapman - ‘God’s Covenant - God’s Land?’ + Tyndale Biblical Archaeology (OT) Lecture - Simon Sherwin (title awaited)
THURSDAY 3 JULY
7.30 - Prayers
8.15 - Breakfast
9.00 - Plenary 4 - TF Associates John Wenham Lecture - David Wright - ‘Children, Covenant and the Church’
10.30 - Coffee
11.00 - Service + Conference Sermon by Rt Rev’d John Taylor
12.30 - Lunch and Depart
Philosophy of Religion
Christian Doctrine
Joint session with Biblical Theology Group on "The role of Covenant in Biblical Theology"
Graham McFarlane, "Against Federal Calvinism"
Andrew McGowan, "In Defence of Federal Calvinism"
Discussion session on Federal Calvinism
Biblical Theology
Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis (University of Nottingham), 'A Brief History of the Incarnation?"
Session One:
Joint session with Christian Doctrine Group on "The role of Covenant in Biblical Theology"
Session Two:
P.T. Chikafu, "Textuality,The Bible and Culture: An Examination of the Covenant Traditions from an African Perspective"
David Bishau, "A Hermeneutical Exposition of the Social Setting of the Sinai Covenant and its Status and Function in the Israelite Liberation Struggle."
Session Three:
Mark Elliott (Liverpool Hope University), "The Covenant as one Theme among several in Biblical Theology"
Response by Howard Marshall (University of Aberdee)
Session Four:
Mike Thompson (Ridley Hall, Cambridge), "After the New Perspective"
Response by Simon Gathercole (University of Aberdeen)
New Testament
Session One:
Peter Gräbe, Trajectories for a theology of the new covenant today in the light of covenant theology in the New Testament and early church
Kim Huat Tan, Jesus and the Covenant Read online
Session Two:
Christian Stettler, Torah and Judgement in the New Covenant: A Fresh Approach to Paul
Tom Holland, Covenant Community and its inception: Corporate baptism as the key to Paul’s doctrine of union with Christ Read online
Andrew Perriman, Something on 2 Thess 2.3-7
Session Three:
Brief Further Discussion of NT-based Plenary Sessions (Adams, Gathercole, Winter)
Alistair Wilson, Luke and the New Covenant
Ray Porter, Covenant Themes in 1 John
Session Four:
Peter Gräbe, Der neue Bund in der frühchristlichen Literatur unter Berücksichtigung der alttestamentlich-jüdischen Voraussetzungen. Würzburg: Echter Verlag, 2001. (Forschung zur Bibel 96.)
Review by Mark Elliott
Response from Peter Gräbe
Discussion
Kevin Ellis, Ministering at the Edge: A Pastoral Model for those 'outside’ of the covenant? Read online
Religion, Culture, and Communication
Session One:
Keith Warrington: Old or New Covenant? Protean Pentecostal Perspectives
Session Two:
Robin Thomson: Covenant, Community and Family in Reaching Out to People of Other Faiths
Session Three:
Kevin Ellis: Ministering at the Edge: Pastoral Models for those 'outside of the covenant?
Session Four:
Martin Whittingham: The Concept of Covenant in Islam