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 website6-9 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. Director responds to Bp Tom Wright in Parliament
2. Joint conference on sexual ethics May 15: booking form
3. Director speaks at Lords Briefing on Equality Bill.
4. Latest Ethics in Brief on assisted suicide and political forgiveness
5. Autumn 2009 Newsletter
6. Guardian article on Equality Bill by Director
7. Guardian article on faith and democracy by Director