Every July Tyndale House hosts meetings of the Tyndale Fellowship Study Groups. KLICE serves as the administrative centre for the Ethics and Social Theology (EST) Group.
Theme: Missional Ethics - June 30 - July 2
25 people attended the Tyndale Fellowship Ethics and Social Theology (EST) Group meeting on ‘Missional Ethics’, held on 30 June – 2 July.
The programme was organised by former KLICE doctoral award holders Jonathan Rowe (South West Ministerial Training Course) and Andy Draycott (Biola University, USA). Jonathan and Andy will edit a book on the theme including papers presented at this event and a parallel one held at Biola. A total of seven people associated with KLICE will contribute chapters to the book: Jonathan Rowe (Introduction); Andy Draycott (‘Preaching’); Advisory Council member Brian Brock (‘Creation’); former award holders Guido De Graaff (‘Friendship’) and Sean Doherty (‘Money’); Associate Director Joshua Hordern (‘Family’) and Director Jonathan Chaplin (‘Politics’). Jonathan is Chair of EST and Guido is Secretary. The book will be published by IVP. The term ‘missional ethics’ was inspired to a considerable extent by Christopher J. H. Wright’s influential book The Mission of God (IVP, 2006). Chris presented this year’s EST ‘Tyndale Lecture’ on the theme and this will be included in the book.
For full details visit the Ethics and Social Theology Group webpage
In 2010 the EST Group met jointly with the Philosophy of Religion Group.
The Tyndale Lecture in Ethics & Social Theology was given by Professor Stephen Williams on the topic, 'Could God have commanded the slaughter of the Canaanites?'
The Tyndale Lecture in Philosophy of Religion was given by Harry Bunting on the topic, 'Forgiveness: Christian and Secular Conceptions.'
There are further details on the EST page of the Tyndale Fellowship website.
6-9 July 2009, Tyndale House
The EST Group joined the New Testament Group sessions on the theme New Testament Ethics.
The Ethics and Social Theology group Tyndale Lecture was be given on 9 July by Dr Jonathan Moo (Faraday Institute Researcher and KLICE grantee):
Title: ‘Continuity, discontinuity and hope: the contribution of New Testament eschatology to a distinctively Christian environmental ethos’.
The Ethics and Social Theology Group (EST) met in July conjointly with the Religion, Culture and Communication Group (RCC).
Date: 9-11 July 2008
Location: Tyndale House/Newnham College
Theme: Political Theology
Programme: Click here for the 2008 Programme
Douglas Knight: The Church, the State and the Archbishop: The Fretful Audiences of Rowan Williams
Calvin Smith: Sons of Abraham: The Politics of Christian Faith in Israel and the Territories
Joshua Hordern: Affections and Institutions in Theo-Political Social Life
Jonathan Burnside: Passover and Asylum: the relationship between Narrative, Law and National Identity
Jonathan Chaplin: Tyndale EST Lecture: The Bible, the State and Religious Diversity: Theological Foundations of ‘Principled Pluralism’
David McIlroy: The Right Reason for Caesar to Confess Christ as Lord: O’Donovan and Arguments for a Christian State
Jeff Bailey: Engaged Particularity: Interfaith Scriptural Reasoning and the Politics of Small Achievements
Stephen Backhouse, A Kierkegaardian Critique of Christian Nationalism (click below for his related paper on nationalism published by Theos http://www.theosthinktank.co.uk/Files/MediaFiles/Citizenship_1.pdf)
The Ethics and Social Theology Group (EST) met in July conjointly with the Religion, Culture and Communication Group (RCC).
Date: 4-6 July 2007
Location: Tyndale House/Newnham College
Theme: Ethics and World Religions
Programme: Click here for the 2007 Programme
Lectures Available: The following lectures from the 2007 Conference are
accessible online (click on the papers)
• Colin Chapman: Christian Responses to Islam, Islamism, and ‘Islamic Terrorism’ (links to Jubilee Centre 'Cambridge Paper' on which talk based)
• David Ford: Scriptural Wisdom for Public Life (links to International Journal of
Public Theology)
• Calvin Smith: Christian Views of the Modern State of Israel
• John Drane: The Globalization of Spirituality
• Jonathan Chaplin: A Christian Political Response to Religious Pluralism
• Douglas Knight: Religion, Religions, and Pluralism
1. Colloquium on Biblical Law will take place on 19-20 March. Click here for booking form.
2. Latest KLICE News published for January 2012.
3. Video: Director interviewed on PM’s speech on ‘Christian Britain’.
4. Audio and video recordings of 'Sustainability in Crisis' conference now available on Faraday Institute website.