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Conference on Sexual Ethics co-sponsored with Jubilee Centre:

Date: Saturday 15 May 2010, with optional supper on Friday 14 May

Location: Cambridge: Eden Baptist Church/Tyndale House

Speakers include:

Further details here. Flier and booking form here.

Past Events

Parliamentary launch

The Director’s recent publication, Talking God: The Legitimacy of Religious Public Reasoning (London: Theos, 2009), was officially launched at a breakfast seminar for MPs and Peers from all political parties on 23 June in the House of Commons. The Director introduced the report and a lively discussion followed. The event was organised by Theos and hosted by John Battle MP.

Talking God is available on the Theos website:
www.theosthinktank.co.uk

A recent issue of Ethics in Brief is a summary of Talking God.

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'Responding to Secularism: Christian Witness in a Dogmatic Public Culture'

24 April 2009, Tyndale House, Cambridge - Programme

65 people attended a day conference on mission and contemporary culture co-sponsored with the Gospel and Our Culture Network

Speakers:

Dr Dominic Erdozain (King’s College, London) on the growth of secularity in modern British culture click here for text of lecture

Prof John Stackhouse (Regent College, Vancouver) on public engagement in a secularised culture click here for audio of lecture (under repair)

Rev J Andrew Kirk (formerly University of Birmingham) on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age click here for text of lecture

Dr Elaine Storkey (TEAR Fund) on responding to the secularist worldview.



'Justice: Rights and Wrongs. A Colloquium'
with Prof Nicholas Wolterstorff (Emeritus, Yale University)

May 21-22 2009 Christ Church, Oxford - Programme

Sponsored by the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics and Public Life
(Oxford) and the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics

Speakers:
Prof Onora O’Neill (British Academy, Philosophy)
Prof Roger Crisp (Oxford, Philosophy)
Prof Timothy Endicott (Oxford, Law)
Prof Julian Rivers (Bristol, Law; former KLICE Advisory Council Chair)
Dr Bernd Wannenwetsch (McDonald Centre, Theology)
Dr John Perry (McDonald Centre, Theology)

Co-chairs:
Prof Nigel Biggar (McDonald Centre)
Dr Jonathan Chaplin (KLICE)

KLICE doctoral grantee Joshua Hordern (Edinburgh) prepared a precis of the book for conference registrants. Prof Wolterstorff’s book was published by Princeton University Press in 2008. Richard Bernstein of the New School for Social Research describes it as "the most impressive book on justice since Rawls's A Theory of Justice". The conference papers, plus a response by Prof. Wolterstorff, appear in a special issue of Studies in Christian Ethics in Spring 2010, guest edited by Jonathan Chaplin.

70 people registered for the event, which was also the 2009 KLICE Annual Book Colloquium.

McDonald Centre website: http://www.mcdonald.ox.ac.uk/


Lunchtime Seminars on Political Ethics

Wednesday 8 October 2008 12.30pm-2.00pm
What is Economic Justice? (Paternoster 2007), with author Rev. Dr. Andrew Hartropp (Oxford Centre for Mission Studies)

Wednesday 19 November 2008 12.20pm-2.00pm
What is Economic Justice? with author Rev. Dr. Andrew Hartropp

Wednesday 3 December 2008 12.30pm-2.00pm
What is Economic Justice? with author Rev. Dr. Andrew Hartropp

Lunchtime Seminars meet occasionally as announced. For further information contact:

Jonathan Chaplin
01223 566625 or
klice@tyndale.cam.ac.uk



2008 KLICE Book Colloquium

A one-day colloquium on KLICE Advisory Council member Brian Brock’s book, Singing the Ethos of God: On the Place of Christian Ethics in Scripture (Eerdmans 2007).

Date: 3-4 September 2008
Location: Tyndale House

Speakers:

30 people participated in the event. The papers appear in a special issue of European Journal of Theology, November 2009, for which Dr. Simon Woodman (South Wales Baptist College) also wrote a precis of the book.



2007 KLICE Book Colloquium

A one-day colloquium on Oliver O'Donovan's book, The Ways of Judgment (Eerdmans, 2005)

Date: 3-4 July 2007 - Programme

Location: Newnham College, Cambridge

Speakers:

25 people attended the event. The papers were published in a special issue of Political Theology in 2008 on the work of Oliver O'Donovan.



2007 Seminar on Public Theology

“Theological Visions and Public Languages” - Programme

An invited seminar for public policy practitioners and public theologians, discussion focusing on documents recently produced by each organisation (listed below). 35 people attended, representing 20 organisations.

Date: 18 April 2007

Location: Tyndale House

Participating organisations:

Centre for Faith and Society at the Von Hügel Institute (CFS): Louder Than Words, by Andrew Bradstock (then co-director of the Centre for Faith and Society)

Evangelical Alliance Public Affairs Department (EA): Faith and Nation

Jubilee Centre: Jubilee Manifesto

Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics (KLICE): ‘Speaking from Faith in Democracy’ (Jonathan Chaplin’s KLICE inaugural lecture)

Theos: Doing God, by Nick Spencer

 

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2. Joint conference on sexual ethics May 15: booking form

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