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Ethics and Social Theology

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.

In 2010 the EST Group meets with the Philosophy of Religion Group:

1-3 July, Tyndale House - further details on the EST page of the Tyndale Fellowship website
2009 Ethics and Social Theology Group
2009 was a Triennial year when all Groups meet together:

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’.

2008 Conference

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)

2007 Conference

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. Director's commentaries on the Coalition and the Conservative Party

2. Summer 2010 Newsletter

3. Latest issues of Ethics in Brief

4. Director's commentary on McFarlane v Relate case

5. KLICE contributes to 'Studies in Christian Ethics' issue

6. Director's article on role of institutions, in 'The Other Journal'

7. Review article on God and Government

8. Director's Guardian postings


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