Festival of Theology programme: 30th Jan 2018

There has been a great response to the thought of holding a Psephizo Festival of Theology at the cease of January, and I received a adept number of offers of papers, from which I accept selected the ones below. Andy Tufnell, recently appointed vicar of Christchurch, Chilwell (on the westward side of Nottingham), has likewise been very supportive and encouraging, and Christchurch are very excited to host the event.

The formal programme volition offset at ten.thirty am and finish atiii.thirty pm, but there will exist coffee from 10 am, and y'all will be very welcome to stay on for further conversation and engagement. The format will be fast moving, with presentations of 15 minutes and time for questions at the end of each one. In that location will be tea and coffee on inflow and at the close, and a light cafe tiffin supplied. Tickets tin exist booked through Eventbrite; the ticket price of £15 is designed to cover costs but nothing more than. Parking is in the nearby streets.

Programme

Ian Paul: Introduction: the role of social media in learning, training and discipleship

Edward Colonnade: Jesus, Justice, and The Desert Testings: Seeking a Context for the Temptations of Jesus

Each of the temptations in the desert – turning stone into bread, jumping from the pinnacle of the temple, and prostration before the tempter  – may exist interpreted on the 1 hand equally a critique of the injustices perpetrated by the ruling Jewish authorities and on the other an unveiling of divine justice that is made explicit in the life of Jesus.

Jo Leatherland: Personality and reading Scripture

How do our personality types affect how we view the Bible? Do we naturally gravitate towards certain styles of Scripture, books and verses? How does the 'personality' of  churches/denominations/streams accept create a lens on how they view Scripture? How subjective are we being even when we are trying to be objective and rational? For each of us,  our 'inheritance' in terms of upbringing and civilisation creates the 'boiled frog' syndrome, so unless we intentionally engage with Christians from other denominations and theological stances we will never confront to our blind spots, prejudices and assumptions.

Mat Sheffield: Children of the Apocalypse

What do we discover almost the style children, particularly younger teenagers (aged eleven-sixteen) interact with and engage with the text of Revelation? How exercise they cope with the imagery, what is resonant in the text to the them, what preconceptions practise they have, what barriers do we (teachers/preachers) create (if we practice?) and how tin we brand this vital text in the New Attestation more than accessible to younger people?

David Shepherd: Theological reflections on male-female complementarity

What are the bug arising from the question of male-female complementarity in dominical, churchly and patristic didactics? How do these relate to the question of Gnostic dualism? What are the dangers of male/female stereotypes and the bug with a complementarity 'essentialism'? Does a 'missional complementarity' provide a better alternative to the current misuse of Trinitarian theology in this expanse?

Dejeuner

Tim Davy: Missional reading of the Bible

Contempo developments in missional hermeneutics have blown wide open the ways in which we can read biblical texts in the light of God'southward mission. In this paper I will employ the book of Job as a test instance to demonstrate the fruitfulness of a missional approach to Scripture and its application to ministry.

Eve Ridgeway: Mission strategy and effectiveness

InAmbivalent Symbols,Michael Paul Gallagher's offers four groupings of 'culturally rooted unbelief'  in gimmicky culture. We need to respond to these by beingness bold in mission, surprising (both in personality every bit Christians/Christian ministers and place and presence) and imaginative in the ways in which we answer to civilization. Case studies from ii churches show what effective, imaginative and surprising mission initiatives might look like.

Alastair Roberts: Virtue Ethics in a social media age

Our understanding of the self, and consequently our ethical exercise, is re-framed by social media. The online self, weakly affiliated, distracted, decontextualized and deracinated, functioning in flattened out, all the same socially saturated and heavily surveilled contexts, hyper-performative in its modes of identity, etc. is a peculiar sort of ethical subject. If we don't reflect upon the nature of this subject and how it is formed and sustained, we volition struggle to understand why nosotros act in the manner that we do, or how we might modify.

John Allister: "What has Wall Street to do with Jerusalem?" Secular leadership thinking in mission, theology and church

The use of secular leadership thinking in theology and training in the church is both widespread and widely contested. The writer of Proverbs extensively appropriates the infidel Wisdom of Amenemope; does this provide us with a model for how we tin engage with secular leadership thinking, and offering a fruitful way forwards in our own debates? This will be explored with detail awarding to the thought of every member ministry.

Concluding reflection

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Travel

Car: The venue is simply five minutes from junction 25 on the M1.

Train: Come to Beeston Station, which is 15 minutes walk or 3 minutes past car from the venue.

Plane: It is a xv infinitesimal bulldoze or 30 minute bus ride (Skylink) from East Midlands airport.

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