More details on forthcoming conference at Aberdeen. Looks great.
What is the role of the prophet in the Christian church? Can the Church integrate its prophetic elements with its determination to exhibit charity and peace? What is the difference between sterile polemics and fruitful argument? Can controversy be creative for the Church, and if so, under what conditions?
Behind these questions lies the sense that the Christian church is at once a prophetic community and a community that tends towards unity. This conference intends to explore the dynamics of prophetic difference by asking whether controversy is integral to the Christian church.
BRIAN BROCK
Controversy in Christian Ethics: The Case of Stanley Hauerwas
LAURENCE HEMMING
‘“The Safeguarding of Orthodoxy as the Impoverishing of Doctrine” (De Lubac): There is no End of Controversy’
DAVID BENTLEY HART
A Penitential Approach to Controversy
SUSAN FRANK PARSONS
The Grace of Prophecy
ROBERT JENSON
On Creative / Destructive Provocations
MARKUS MUHLING
Divergent Oneness: The Church's Unity Without Consensus
JOHN WEBSTER
Theology and the Peace of the Church
PETER MCMYLOR
Controversy and the Development of Doctrine
PETER LEITHART
Fighting Fair? Athanasius and the 'Ario-maniacs'
CARL TRUEMAN
Pictures, Problems and Past Offenders: Protestant Polemics in Seventeenth Century Reformed Orthodoxy
VIGEN GUROIAN
Debating the Status of Same Sex Unions
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