(Please also see our Power in the Church of England webinar series.)
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
Reflections on 'The Principles of Canon Law Common to the Churches of the Anglican Communion’
Wednesday 26 April: 4.00-5.30 p.m.
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.
"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
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.
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)
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
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
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
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'
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
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
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
Wednesday, 22 May, 2024 4.00-5.30 p.m.
Christ and Captivity in the Second World War: Faith, Art and Stanley Warren in Changi Prisoner of War Camp
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).
EASTER TERM 2025
This term’s programme is a mixture of in-person and online-only events. Please check each event for details.
Wednesday 7 May, 2025, 4.00-5.30 pm
Isaac Frisby:
'Negation of negation: a pneumatological phenomenology of life'
In person only: St Antony’s Priory, 74 Claypath, Durham.
Wednesday 21 May, 2025, 4.00-5.30 pm
Revd Dr Philip Hobday:
‘Richard Hooker, the Pope, and the Virgin Mary’
In person: St John’s College Learning Resource Centre,
and Online: Teams link (or details: Meeting ID: 351 987 178 237 9 & Passcode: nh3Jt2b5)
Wednesday 11 June, 2025, 6.00-7.30 pm
Revd Prebendary Dr Isabelle Hamley, Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge:
'Anglican liturgy and forming the imagination for justice’
In person only: Prior’s Hall, Durham Cathedral
EPIPHANY TERM 2025
Wednesday 29 January, 2025, 4.00-5.30 pm
Revd Dr Kathy Grieb, Director of the Center for Anglican Communion Studies and Professor of Biblical Interpretation and New Testament at Virginia Theological Seminary.
Title: Richard Hooker as Pastor, Preacher, and Practical Theologian
This paper will explore this less well-known side of Richard Hooker and attempt to show how some of his formal theological convictions were expressed in the practical setting of a country church.
Online only: http://bit.ly/4gKnSTo
Wednesday 26 February, 2025, 4.00-5.30 pm
Dr Paulo Ueti, Theological Adviser and Latin American Regional Director for the Anglican Alliance (supporting advocacy, aid and development across the Anglican Communion) and adviser for episcopal ministry in the Anglican Communion.
Title: John 2:1-10 - Community as a place of transformation - diakonia and joy: ecclesiological debate at the end of first century CE
Online only: https://bit.ly/4fMzhAQ
Wednesday, 12 March, 2025, 4.00-5.30 pm
Revd Dr Alison Walker, Ludlow Lead Tutor, Ripon College, Cuddesdon.
Title: Church of England, Place and Willie James Jennings
Hybrid event, venue TBC. Email admin.cas@durham.ac.uk, if you need the online link.
Wednesday, 19 March, 2025, 4.00-5.30 pm
Revd Ryan Bennett, SSM, Australian Province, Final year PhD candidate in Divinity at the University of Edinburgh, research area: The rise of the Christian Socialist Movement in the twentieth century in the United Kingdom and United States respectively, with particular attention on Archbishop William Temple and Dorothy Day.
Title: Embodied Theology: A study of the Incarnational Theology of Archbishop William Temple and Servant of God, Dorothy Day, with reference to the influence of Fr. Herbert Kelly, SSM.
In-person only at St Antony’s Priory, 74 Claypath, Durham, DH1 1QT.
MICHAELMAS TERM 2024
Wednesday 6 November, 2024
Dr Sam Tranter (Cranmer Hall, Durham University), The Prayer Book Society Conference.
Online only.
Wednesday 4 December 2024
Book Launch: Ian Collins: Blythe Spirit: Blythe Spirit: The Remarkable Life of Ronald Blythe, John Murray, 2024. Ian Collins is an award-winning writer and curator. He was a friend of Ronald Blythe for 35 years, and latterly his carer, executor and biographer.
Respondents: Revd Dr Angela Tilby and Very Revd Dr Frances E F Ward. Excerpts read by David Holt.
For further information about seminars and events at the Michael Ramsey Centre, please contact Mike Snape on michael.snape@durham.ac.uk
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