Theological Conference 2022
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Descent of the Dove: Knowing and Loving in Spirit and Truth will consider the person and work of the Holy Spirit, and the inevitable transformation which any knowledge of, faith in, or encounter with, the Holy Spirit both invites and enables.
We have an inspiring group of speakers to guide and enlighten us on this journey: Lewis Ayres, Richard Conrad, Susan Gillingham, Malcolm Guite, Carol Harrison, Karen Kilby, Matthew Levering, Jack Levison, Andrew Louth, John McGuckin, Oliver O’Donovan, Marcus Plested, Ephraim Radner, Gary Thorne, Graham Tomlin, Robin Ward, Kallistos Ware, Rowan Williams, Judith Wolfe, and N T Wright (more info below). Pusey House is committed to the discipline and study of Theology from within the worshipping life of the Church, so that our academic endeavours are informed, enriched and sustained by the sacred liturgy and daily offices. The academic programme of the 2022 conference will therefore be interspersed with opportunities for collective worship in the Catholic tradition of the Church of England. |
This conference will contribute to the recovery of the Church’s authentic mind and memory, in order to renew our encounter with the risen and ascended Christ, who is ever present in the Church and the world by the Holy Spirit.
The upcoming 2022 conference, ‘The Descent of the Dove: Knowing and Loving in Spirit and Truth’, will be the third of a series following, ‘A Transforming Vision: Knowing and Loving the Triune God’ (2016), and ‘Totus Christus: Knowing and Loving the Son of Man’ (2018). The papers from former conferences have been published by SCM Press as A Transforming Vision (2018) and Christ Unabridged (2020).
Schedule: The conference will start at 2 pm on Monday 4 July, preceded by High Mass with sermon at 11 am, and will conclude on Wednesday 6 July after a concluding address by the Rt Rev’d Rowan Williams, followed by Choral Evensong and sermon at 6:00 pm.
A more detailed programme will be available later this year.
Registration: Please click here to book your place
If you have any questions, please email pusey.conference@stx.ox.ac.uk.
The venue: Located in the heart of Oxford, Pusey House was founded to be ‘a house of sacred learning’ dedicated to the memory of the Revd Professor E.B. Pusey, Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford. The House is a place where theological study is encouraged alongside a community of worship and prayer. Drawing on the tradition of renewal that inspired the Oxford Movement, we seek to build up a community where a lively and reasonable faith is nourished by the beauty of the liturgy to form disciples in Christ for service in the Church and in the world.
Full list of speakers:
The upcoming 2022 conference, ‘The Descent of the Dove: Knowing and Loving in Spirit and Truth’, will be the third of a series following, ‘A Transforming Vision: Knowing and Loving the Triune God’ (2016), and ‘Totus Christus: Knowing and Loving the Son of Man’ (2018). The papers from former conferences have been published by SCM Press as A Transforming Vision (2018) and Christ Unabridged (2020).
Schedule: The conference will start at 2 pm on Monday 4 July, preceded by High Mass with sermon at 11 am, and will conclude on Wednesday 6 July after a concluding address by the Rt Rev’d Rowan Williams, followed by Choral Evensong and sermon at 6:00 pm.
A more detailed programme will be available later this year.
Registration: Please click here to book your place
If you have any questions, please email pusey.conference@stx.ox.ac.uk.
The venue: Located in the heart of Oxford, Pusey House was founded to be ‘a house of sacred learning’ dedicated to the memory of the Revd Professor E.B. Pusey, Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford. The House is a place where theological study is encouraged alongside a community of worship and prayer. Drawing on the tradition of renewal that inspired the Oxford Movement, we seek to build up a community where a lively and reasonable faith is nourished by the beauty of the liturgy to form disciples in Christ for service in the Church and in the world.
Full list of speakers:
Lewis Ayres
Professor of Catholic and Historical Theology, Durham University, and Professorial Fellow at the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry of the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne Richard Conrad Lector and Fellow of Blackfriars, sometime Director of the Aquinas Institute, and Vice-Regent of Studies at Blackfriars, Oxford Susan Gillingham Emeritus Professor of the Hebrew Bible, Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Canon Theologian at Exeter Cathedral, and Permanent Deacon in the Parish of St Barnabas and St Thomas, Oxford Malcolm Guite Poet, theologian, writer, and literary critic Car0l Harrison Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford Karen Kilby Bede Professor of Catholic Theology in the Centre for Catholic Studies, the Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University Matthew Levering James N. and Mary D. Perry Jr. Chari of Theology at Mendelein Seminary, University of St Mary of the Lake, and Co-Director of the Chicago Theological Initiative Jack Levison W.J.A. Power Professor of Old Testament Interpretation and Biblical Hebrew at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University Andrew Louth Professor Emeritus of Patristic and Byzantine Studies in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University, and Rector of the Orthodox Parish of St Cuthbert and St Bede, Durham. John A. McGuckin Nielsen Emeritus Professor of Byzantine Christian Studies at Columbia University, and Arch Priest of the Romanian Orthodox Patriarchate |
Oliver O'Donovan
Professor Emeritus in Christian Ethics and Practical Theology at the School of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh, and sometime Regius Professor of Moral & Pastoral Theology and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford Marcus Plested Professor of Greek Patristic and Byzantine Theology at Marquette University Ephraim Radner Professor of Historical Theology at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto Gary Thorne Chaplain of Huron University, Huron at Western, London, Ontario Graham Tomlin Bishop of Kensington and President of St Mellitus College, London Robin Ward Principal of St Stephen's House, Oxford Kallistos Ware Assistant Bishop in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain, sometime Spalding Lecturer of Eastern Orthodox Studies and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford Rowan Williams Baron Williams of Oystermouth, Fellow of Magdalane College, Cambridge, sometime Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop of Monmouth, and Archbishop of Wales, and Lady Margaret Professor of Divinty, Oxford Judith Woolf Professor of Philosophical Theology at St Mary's College, St Andrews N T Wright Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, Research Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Early Christianity at St Mary's College, St Andrews, and sometime Bishop of Durham, Dean of Lichfield Cathedral, and Canon of Westminster Abbey |
Organised in conjunction with the Pusey Centre for Theology, Law, and Culture
If you've any questions about the forthcoming conference, please email pusey.conference@stx.ox.ac.uk.