2009 Triennial Conference
Cambridge
Tyndale Lecture by Dr Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, University of Aberdeen - ‘To read - or not to read - Ezekiel as Christian Scripture’
Philosophy of Religion
Tyndale Lecture by Dr Dave Leal, Brasenose College, Oxford - ‘Secular Conceptions of Heaven’
Christian Doctrine
Tyndale Lecture by Professor John Webster, University of Aberdeen - ‘Creatio ex nihilo’
New Testament
Tyndale Lecture by Dr Roland Deines, University of Nottingham - ‘God’s Role in History as a Methodological Problem for Exegesis: Towards a Historical-Critical Assessment of the Conviction that God is Acting in History’
Biblical Theology
Tyndale Lecture by Dr Tom Holland, Wales Evangelical School of Theology - ‘Israel’s Law and the Church’s Pain’
Ethics and Social Theology
Tyndale Lecture by Dr Jonathan Moo, Faraday Institute for Science & Religion - ‘Continuity, discontinuity and hope: the contribution of New Testament eschatology to a distinctively Christian environmental ethos’
Biblical Archaeology
Chair: Alan Millard
Tyndale Lecture by Dr Martin Heide, Institut für Semitistik, Philipps-Universität Marburg - ‘Abraham and the Domestication of the Camel’
John Wenham Lecture: Wayne Grudem - 'The Perspicuity of Scripture'
Old Testament
Theme: The Old Testament and Christian Proclamation
Tuesday, July 7
9:30am Paul Kissling – Narrative Characters
Laurence Turner – Narrative Plot
11:30am Chris Wright – Legal Texts
Grenville Kent – Song of Songs
Wednesday, July 8
9:30am Hugh Williamson - Isaiah
Daniel Block – Ezekiel
Thursday, July 9
9:30 Ernest Lucas – Apocalyptic
Federico Villanueva – Poetry: Lament
David Firth – Poetry: Praise
11:30 Walter Moberly – Preaching Christ from the Old Testament
Gordon Wenham – Preaching from Difficult Texts
Philosophy of Religion Study Group, 2009:
Alting, Henk: 'DZ Phillips: A Wittgensteinian View of the Reality of God'
Chaplin, Jonathan: 'The Legitimacy of Religious Public Reasoning'
Hill, Daniel: 'Logic in Theology and Biblical Studies'
Leal, David: 'Some Secular Conceptions of Heaven' (Tyndale Lecture)
MacNish, Tom: 'What's So Vicious About Vicious Infinite Regresses?'
Simpson, Tom: 'A Critique of Presuppositionalism'
Sturch, Richard: 'Sedgwick and Christian Ethics'
Williams, Peter S: 'The Ontological Argument: Scepticism, Agnosticism and Belief '
The joint BT and CD papers will be as follows:
1. Tues 7th at 9.30: I. Howard Marshall, 'Biblical and Systematic Theology'
2. Tues 7th at 11.30: T.A. Noble, 'Drawing on Biblical Theology in Writing a Systematics'
3. Wed 8th at 9.30: Daniel Hill, 'The Use of Logic in Biblical and Theological Interpretation'
4. Wed 8th at 11.30: Desmond Alexander, 'Learning from One Another: The Challenging Interface between Biblical Theology and Christian Doctrine'
5. Thur 9th at 9.45: Mike Bird, 'What if Luther Had Read the Dead Sea Scrolls? Moving from Historical Particularity to Theological Exegesis: Galatians as a Test Case.'
6. Thur 9th at 11.45: Jason Sexton, 'Stanley Grenz: A Theological and Telic Interpretation of the Imago Dei of Gen 1:27'
For the July 2009 meeting the Ethics and Social Theology Group is joining with the New Testament Group, whose theme is NT Ethics. Please visit the NT page for programme information.
The EST Tyndale lecturer this year is Dr. Jonathan Moo (Faraday Institute/Tyndale Reader). His title is: 'Continuity, discontinuity and hope: the contribution of New Testament eschatology to a distinctively Christian environmental ethic'.
Monday 6th July
12.00 pm Registration
1.00 pm Lunch
2.00 pm Members Forum: Nature & Purpose of the Tyndale Fellowship
3.30 pm Tea
5.00 pm Tyndale Christian Doctrine Lecture
6.30 pm Supper
7.30 pm Tyndale Old Testament Lecture
Tuesday 7th July
7.30 am Breakfast
8.45 am Prayers
9.30 am Study Groups Session 1
11.00 am Coffee
11.30 am Study Groups Session 2
1.00 pm Lunch
2.00 pm Free Session
3.30 pm Tea
5.00 pm Tyndale New Testament Lecture
6.30 pm Supper
7.30 pm Tyndale Philosophy of Religion Lecture
Wednesday 8th July
7.30 am Breakfast
8.45 am Prayers
9.30 am Study Groups Session 3
11.00 am Coffee
11.30 am Study Groups Session 4
1.00 pm Lunch
2.00 pm Tyndale Biblical Archaeology Lecture
3.30 pm Tea
5.00 pm Tyndale Biblical Theology Lecture
6.30 pm Supper
7.30 pm John Wenham Lecture
Thursday 9th July
7.30 am Breakfast
9.00 am Conference Service
9.45 am Study Groups Session 5
11.00 am Coffee
11.45 am Study Groups Session 6
1.00 pm Lunch
2.00 pm Tyndale Ethics & Social Theology Lecture
3.30 pm Tea
4.00 pm TF Committee Meeting