2018 Conference Program in Outline
Wednesday 24th January OPENING DAY
12.00 noon onwards arrivals and registration
12.45 Introductions and overview of the conference
13.00 Session I
Opening Presidential Address
“The Ancient Catholic Lectionary
at the heart of a Reformed Liturgy”,
The Revd. Fr. Gavin Dunbar,
President of the Prayer Book Society
(Part II of this presentation will take the form of a follow up practicum
on Friday afternoon, as set out below)
14.30 Break
15.00 Session II
“Justification in Anglicanism and the Prayer Book”
The Rt. Revd. C. FitzSimons Allison, D.Phil.
Retired Bishop of South Carolina
Followed by
The Conference Reception
Thursday 25th February DAY II
Morning Plenary Sessions 9.00 a.m.
(with a Morning Coffee Break)
“The Offertory & Pelagius:
Did the Prayer Book Tradition protect us from an ancient heresy re-opened in the 1979 BCP?
How can we maintain a right balance in our views of self-offering?”
The Very Revd. Dr. Laurie Thompson III,
Dean of Trinity School for Ministry,
Ambridge PA
“Knit together in one Communion and fellowship:
What does the liturgy tell us about the Church and its Unity?”
The Revd. Dr. Paul Avis
Universities of Exeter and Durham
and special guest of the Conference
12.00 – 14.00 Luncheon break
With opportunities for informal “Table Talk” sessions over luncheon upon such themes as the Future of the Anglican Communion, The Persecuted Church, The coming T.E.C. General Convention…
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
(with afternoon tea break)
“Catholic Apologetics: Retrieving Older Precedents”.
Dr. Christopher Wells,
Editor of the Living Church
“Renewing the Christian Imagination:
Inhabiting the City of God in a Secular Age”
Dr. Paul Julienne
Joint Quantum Institute
University of Maryland (retd.)
“Being ‘Reasonably Anglican’ and ‘Prayer Bookish’:
Religion without tears?”
The Revd. Canon Alistair Macdonald-Radcliff
International Advisor to the PBS
17.00 Festal Choral Evensong
Preacher:
The Rt. Revd. Michael Hawkins,
Bishop of Saskatchewan
Friday 26th January Day III 9.00 a.m.
“Dante’s Paradiso
as a guide to Anglican Sanctification”.
Dr. Neil Robertson,
University of Kings College, Halifax.
“The Twentieth-Century Baptismal Revolution:
Is the Classical Prayer Book Really Obsolete?”
Dr. Jesse Billett,
Trinity College, University of Toronto
“ ‘Not a Synod, only a Conference’:
The Lambeth Conference
and the Councils of the Church”
The Revd. Dr. Paul Avis
Universities of Exeter and Durham
and special guest of the Conference
Luncheon 12.00 – 14.00 p.m.
Afternoon:
‘On the Virtue of Re-Reading’
Dr Michael Hurley,
Cambridge
Practicum on
“The Ancient Catholic Lectionary
at the heart of a Reformed Liturgy”
Led by The Revd. Fr. Gavin Dunbar,
President of the Prayer Book Society
A Breakout Session following on from the Opening Presidential Address
This will feature a discussion of some representative Sunday lectionary propers.
While this may of special interest to those who preach, it will be of interest to any who wish an informed approach to reflecting and praying the Sunday eucharistic propers.
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“(Being) Made for Eternity:
Liturgical Patterns and Habits of Soul”
Dr. Stephen Blackwood,
President of Ralston College
The Plans for a
“Comprehensive Revision” of the 1979 Prayer Book
An overview after the PBS Dallas Colloquium last Fall:
This Commission on Liturgy and Music was mandated by the last General Convention of TEC to produce a plan for this which will be presented to the next General Convention this Summer.
With Dr Jesse Billett
The Revd Canon Alistair Macdonald-Radcliff
and the Revd Fr Gavin Dunbar
17.00 The closing Conference Eucharist