Seminars, Lectures and Symposia held during academic year 2022-2023

(Please also see our Power in the Church of England webinar series.)

Epiphany Term (2023)

Revd Rebecca Amoroso (Lindisfarne College of Theology):

‘“The Chapel Feels Like Home”:  Reflections on Anglican Prison Ministry’

Wednesday 1 February, 4.00-5.30 p.m., Abbey House, D/TH 107. and ONLINE

 

Anglican Communion Office Seminar: Revd Dr Thomas Sharp: 

Can Networks be the Future of the Anglican Communion? Learning from the first years of the Anglican Theology Project

Wednesday 8 February: 4.00-5.30 p.m., Abbey House, D/TH 107.

 

Johannes Makar (Harvard University): 

In Search of a National Church: Anglican-Coptic Exchanges at the turn of the Nineteenth Century

Wednesday 1 March, 4.00-5.30 p.m

 

Book Launch: Canon Professor Michael Snape (Durham University) with Professor W.M. Jacob: 

A Church Militant: Anglicans and the Armed Forces from Queen Victoria to the Vietnam War (OUP, 2022)

Wednesday 15 March, 4.00-5.30 p.m., Abbey House, D/TH 107

 

Easter Term (2023)

Anglican Communion Office Seminar. The Venerable Doctor Will Adam (Archdeacon of Canterbury),

Reflections on 'The Principles of Canon Law Common to the Churches of the Anglican Communion’

Wednesday 26 April: 4.00-5.30 p.m.

 

Dr Rebecca Leong (Durham University)

Advocating a Five-Fold Ethic for Christian Sexual Ethics. Furthering the conversation in 'Living in Love and Faith’

Wednesday 3 May: 4.00-5.30 p.m.

 

St Antony’s Priory Seminar:  Dr Serenhedd James (St Stephen’s House, Oxford) 

"The Cloister-Madness of the Monk”: re-establishing the religious life for men in the Church of England

Wednesday 10 May: 4.00-5.30 p.m

 

Michael Ramsey Lecture:  Professor Jane Shaw (Professor of the History of Religion, University of Oxford):

Women, Mysticism and Anglicanism in the Twentieth Century

Thursday 8 June., 2023: 6.00-7.30 p.m (hybrid)

Lecture Room PG 20, Pemberton Building, Palace Green, Durham.

 

 

Michaelmas Term 2023

Wednesday 25 October 2023 4.00-5.30 p.m., Abbey House, D/TH 107

Revd Rebecca Amoroso (Durham University)

“The Chapel Feels Like Home”:  Reflections on Anglican Prison Ministry

This is a hybrid event.

 

Wednesday 1 November 2023 4.00-5.30 p.m; St Antony’s Priory, 74 Claypath, Durham, DH1 1QT

Clinton Collister (University of Cambridge)

The Nature of Priesthood and Freedom in the Theology of John Neville Figgis

In-person only

 

Wednesday 22 November 2023 4.00-5.30 p.m Anglican Communion Office Seminar 

Speaker and title TBC

Online only

 

Wednesday 6 December, 2023 4.00-5.30 p.m.

Johannes Makar (Harvard University)

In Search of a National Church: Anglican-Coptic Exchanges at the turn of the Nineteenth Century

Online only

 

Epiphany Term 2024

Wednesday 17 January, 4.00-5.30 p.m. Abbey House, D/TH 107, Anglican Communion Office seminar

Revd Canon Dr Stephen Spencer (Anglican Communion Office and Durham University)

The Eucharist as a Sacrament of Mission

This is a hybrid event.

 

Friday 26 January, 12.00-5.00 p.m. Scott Holland Symposium

Professor Kwok Pui-Lan (Candler School of Theology, Emory University) and Dr Jennifer Leith (Westcott House, University of Cambridge)

Postcolonial Anglicanism

This event is online only

 

Wednesday 31 January, 4.00-5.30 p.m. St Antony’s Priory, 74 Claypath, Durham, DH1 1QT

Revd Dr George Westhaver (Pusey House, Oxford) 

Sacramental Vision: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Oxford Movement

In-person only

 

Wednesday 21 February, 4.00-5.30 p.m., Abbey House, D/TH 107

Revd Paul Wright LVO (Sub-Dean of the Chapel Royal and Domestic Chaplain to King Charles III)

Ceremonial Worship and the State

This is a hybrid event.

 

Saturday 24 February, 12.00-1.00 p.m. Young Anglican Theology Seminar.

Wallace Gois (Pontifical University of São Paolo)

The Liberation Theology of Naim Ateek

This event is online only.

 

Monday 4 March, 4.00-5.30 p.m., Abbey House, D/TH 107

Revd Dr Stephanie Burette (Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford)

Christ and Captivity in the Second World War: Faith, Art and Stanley Warren in Changi Prisoner of War Camp'

This is a hybrid event.

 

Wednesday 13 March, 4.00-5.30 p.m.

Bryn Blake (Kings College London)

“Craving Your Learned Protection”: William Perkins’ Patronage Network and the Doctrinal Maturation of the Elizabethan Church of England

This event is online only.

 

Easter Term 2024

Wednesday 24 April, 2024 6.00-7.30 p.m Bishop’s Dining Room, Castle College

Dr Sanjee Perera (Dean’s Scholar, Virginia Theological Seminary, Honorary Canon, Liverpool Cathedral, and Honorary Research Fellow, Durham University)

A theology of Inequality: How the Church's Legacy of Slavery and Empire Shapes the Nation

 

Wednesday 1 May, 2024 4.00-5.30 p.m.

Professor Douglas Davies (Durham University)

Spirit Possession and the Church of England

This event is online only.

 

Wednesday, 8 May, 2024 4.00-5.30 p.m. Learning Resource Centre, St John’s College, Durham,

Revd Dr Josh Cockayne (Cranmer Hall)

Are you really Anglicans? Reflections on Church Planting, Innovation, and Ecclesiastical Authority

This is a hybrid event

 

Wednesday, 15 May, 2024 4.00-5.30 p.m. St Antony’s Priory, 74 Claypath, Durham, DH1 1QT,

Revd Dr Greg Peters (Nashotah House)

Edward Bouverie Pusey and Christian Tradition: The Necessity of Monasticism in the Church of England

In-person only

 

Wednesday, 22 May, 2024  4.00-5.30 p.m.

Revd Dr Stephanie Burette (Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford)

Christ and Captivity in the Second World War: Faith, Art and Stanley Warren in Changi Prisoner of War Camp

This event is online only.

 

Tuesday, 4 June, 2024 6.00-7.30 p.m. Book Launch

Professor Alison Milbank (University of Nottingham)

The Once and Future Parish (SCM, 2024)

Respondents: Professor Jeremy Morris and Canon Jessica Martin (Theological Adviser to the House of Bishops).

This event is online only

Further Information

For further information about seminars and events at the Michael Ramsey Centre, please contact Mike Snape on michael.snape@durham.ac.uk