The last few weeks have been so busy that there has been little time to blog.
I went to the Spring Harvest / King's College London eschatology day - it was good to see Steve Holmes; I also heard Oliver Davies talk about the new venture in the King's theology department they're calling 'transformation theology' - I have the related book to review.
I had my college assessed service - which went well
I saw my brother in Bath, on the way to the BU Younger Leader's forum, where we were thinking further about what it means to be an inclusive church, with some input from Sean Winter, we hope to report to BU Council with some thoughts/proposals in November.
I've been working on an MTh essay on the impact of Restorationism and management-style on Baptist ecclesiology. Part of this has meant reading Apostolic Networks in Britain by William Kay (which I also have to review). I've also discovered that a Baptist Minister, Craig Millward wrote a similar PhD dissertation at the London School of Theology in 2003. (On another LST are currently looking for a new principal to replace Derek Tidball).
Earlier this week I watch the Thin Red Line with the Graduate Seminar in Moral Theology. I'd not seen the film since it came out in 1998. This is a fantastic thought-provoking film, which demands repeated viewings.
I'll be attending the Stanley Hauerwas lecture in Oxford.
Other books I'll be reviewing over the next month/s are:
Francis Watson's Paul and the Hermeneutics of Faith
Andrew Lincoln's Black's commentary on St John
Paul Nimmo's Being in Action, which is on Barth's ethics
Other books that are now on my bookshelves are:
Jurgen Moltmann's auto-biography A Broad Place
Mike Higton's A Difficult Gospel (on the theology of Rowan Williams)
Ian Randall's What a Friend we have in Jesus (on evangelical spirituality)
Andrew Walker and Kirsten Aune's On Revival
Joel Green's Two Horizons commentary on 1 Peter
Will Willimon's Interpretation commentary on Acts
Jean Vanier's Drawn into the Mystery of Jesus through the Gospel of John
Stephen Hunt's The Alpha Enterprise
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