The Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics
Events
Launch of Talking God, Parliament June 2009
2009 Book Colloquium on Justice: Rights and Wrongs by Nicholas Wolterstorff, McDonald Centre, Oxford
Conference on Responding to Secularism, April 2009 co-sponsored by the Gospel and Our Culture Network
Tyndale Fellowship Ethics and Social Theology Study Group 2008 on Political Theology
2007 Book Colloquium on The Ways of Judgment by Oliver O’Donovan
2007 Seminar on ‘Theological Visions and Public Languages, April 2007
Research
Projects
KLICE is currently engaged in two exciting projects in partnerships with Theos and the Bible Society, both aimed to disseminating the fruits of academic political theology to wide audience of practitioners. See the Projects page for further information.
Andy Draycott, grantee from 2007-8, successfully defended his thesis in March 2009 at Abderdeen University. Written under the supervision of KLICE Advisory Council member Brian Brock, its title is ‘Mission as the key to political theology’. In 2009 Andy took up a position as Assistant Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, USA. He served as Teaching Fellow in Practical Theology at Aberdeen from 2008-9.
Recent KLICE grantee Guido de Graaff successfully defended his doctoral thesis on ‘The Gift of Common Judgment: A Theological Analysis of Politics in Friendship’ at Oxford University in December 2010. His superviser was Dr. Bernd Wannenwetsch. In summer 2010 he took up a full-time position as Tutor in Doctrine and Ethics at South East Institute for Theological Education (SEITE), a regional, interdenominational ministerial training centre. From 2006-2009 he served as Conference Secretary for the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics (SSCE), and remains a member of the committee. He has published reviews in Studies in Christian Ethics (the SSCE journal), an entry for the new edition of the New Dictionary of Theology (IVP), and translated four essays by a leading German theologian, Robert Spaemann (with James Mumford).
Recent KLICE grantee successful defended his doctoral thesis at Edinburgh University in January 2010. His thesis was titled 'Political Affections: A Theological Inquiry' and was supervised by Prof. Oliver O’Donovan. Joshua has also tutored and lectured in Christian ethics at Edinburgh. In 2009-2010 he serves both as Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge and as the first KLICE Research Associate. He was organiser of the annual Postgraduate Forum of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics in 2008-9, and has worked as assistant to the Executive Director of ‘Trinity Forum Europe’, which stages influential public events relating ethics and faith to public issues.
We are currently seeking funds for a designated KLICE doctoral research grant in the area of theology and law.
Publications
Recommended recent publications:
- Nick Spencer and Jonathan Chaplin, eds., God and Government (SPCK 2009)
- Nigel Biggar and Linda Hogan, eds., Religious Voices in Public Places (Oxford University Press, 2009).
- David McIlroy, A Trinitarian Theology of Law (Paternoster 2009)
Whitefield Briefing
Thinking Christianly about Politics - Andrew Goddard
A Truly Serious Offence? Modern Law and the Problem of 'Seriousness' - Jonathan Burnside
Towards a Biblical View on Politics - Andrew Basden
Public Reason - Julian Rivers
The Trinity, Politics and the Law - David McIlroy
Keeping Faith In Prisons: Evaluating the policy and practice of faith-based prison units - Jonathan Burnside
After Secularism: Inner-city Governance and the New Religious Discourse - Jenny Taylor
Are We Any Use? Bonhoeffer and the Ruling Classes - Nigel Oakley
Look for articles on political and legal ethics in:
Political Theology
Studies in Christian Ethics
International Journal of Public Theology
Journal of Religious Ethics
Law and Justice: The Christian Law Review
Cambridge Papers
Comment
Evangelical Review of Society and Politics
Links
McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics and Public Life
Theos
Jubilee Centre
Relationships Foundation
Evangelical Alliance Public Affairs Department
CARE
Bible Society
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
