Conference: "Ancient Wisdom, Anglican Futures: An Emerging Conversation"

Trinity School for Ministry in Ambridge, PA will be hosting what looks like a fantastic conference, June 4-6, 2009, entitled "Ancient Wisdom, Anglican Futures: An Emerging Conversation."  Our own Jason Clark will be one of the speakers, along with Holly Rankin Zaher, D. Stephen Long, Sam Wells, Simon Chan, and others.  Here's further info from the conference website:

How do we receive and pass on the Anglican inheritance in a way that moves us "further upand further in" (a phrase from C.S. Lewis) to a deep understanding of living the Great Tradition"?

This enormous question is multi-directional. How do Anglican "insiders" welcome young
evangelicals, post-evangelicals, and emergents who are attracted to the "Great Tradition"? How do inquiring "outsiders" perceive or participate in the distinctive anamnesia (memory) of Anglican worship and mission? How can the exchange between insiders and outsiders bear fruit in Anglicanism today? How will this emerging conversation stir the mind and heart of an Anglicanism in renewal?

These questions require a "baptized imagination" (another Lewis expression) set free within a collaborative gathering that gently crosses boundaries between theology, theory and praxis. We will focus the conversation on the worship life and mission of Anglicanism:·

• Living the Great Tradition
• Worshiping in the Great Tradition
• Mission in the Great Tradition

Be a part of our conversation at the intersection of theology and practice, worship and mission, where theologians and practitioners converge.

Discussion Leaders

• Jason Clark is on the co-ordinating group of Emergent-UK and with his wife, Bev, is a copastor of Vineyard Church, Sutton, Surrey, UK.
• David Neff is editor-in-chief of Christianity Today
• Holly Rankin Zaher is part of the Emergent Village Coordinating Group and is Director of Student Discipleship at St. George's Episcopal Church, Nashville, TN.

Teachers

• Simon Chan, Professor of Systematic Theology at Trinity Theological College, Singapore, is author of Liturgical Theology: The Church as Worshiping Community
• Tony Clark is Chaplain at Lee Abbey Community (UK) and teaches ethics and philosophy at Friends University.
• Edith M. Humphrey, is Professor of New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.
• D. Stephen Long, Professor of Systematic Theology, Marquette University, is author of Theology and Culture: A Guide to the Discussion.
• George Sumner is Principal of Wycliffe College, Toronto and author of The First and Last: The Claim of Jesus Christ and the Claims of Other Religious Traditions.
• Andrew Walker, Professor of Theology and Education at King's College, London is co-author of Living Orthodoxy in the Modern World.
• Samuel Wells is the Dean of Duke University Chapel and Research Professor of Christian Ethics at Duke Divinity School
• Daniel H. Williams teaches patristics and historical theology at Baylor University and is author of Evangelicals and Tradition.

Find out more, and register for the conference.

Comments

[A D Hunt]

That looks spectacular. As a recent "convert" to Anglicanism from the Assemblies of God I find it ironic that Simon Chan, an AG theologian, is going to be at this thing. I am also happy to see Trinity, a reputably *very* "conservative" school taking the lead in the interaction with "Emerging" thought in Anglicanism, especially in TEC.

[John]

Speaking of the true sources of Ancient Wisdom why not check out this reference.

http://global.adidam.org/books/ancient-teachings.html

Such Wisdom does not even exist within the Protestant Tradition, or within the Christian Tradition altogether, except in the work of Meister Eckhart, who was not very welcome by the ecclesiastical establishment of his time--nor ever since.