The Holy Spirit in the World Today Conference - 2011

Date: Friday, June 3, 2011 - 08:30 - 17:00
Venue: Holy Trinity Brompton

In 2010, St Mellitus College, St Paul’s Theological Centre and Holy Trinity Brompton hosted a ground-breaking conference entitled ‘The Holy Spirit in the World Today’. This year, we are doing it again, but with a difference.

The 2010 conference aimed to open up discussion of and encounter with the Spirit in the company of some of the world’s best-known theologians, in the context of a vibrant local church. In 2011, we aim to take the conversation further by focussing on some of the key biblical texts connected with the Spirit. The aim is not so much to discuss a theology of the Spirit, but to do theology in the Spirit, looking at the Scriptures in the context of worship, prayer and encounter, with the help of some key theological voices in the contemporary world. Speakers will include:

• Professor David Ford
David is Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge, one of the best known theologians in the world, and author of many books, most notably and recently Christian Wisdom: Desiring God and Learning in Love (CUP, 2007)

• Dr Wonsuk Ma
Dr Ma is David Yonggi Cho Research Tutor of Global Christianity, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies. He is a Pentecostal missionary, and a specialist in Old Testament Pneumatology and Asian Pentecostalism. He is the author, among other books, of Mission in the Spirit: Towards a Pentecostal/Charismatic Missiology (Regnum 2010)

• Jane Williams
Jane is Tutor in Theology St Paul’s Theological Centre and St Mellitus College. She is the author of several books, including most recently, Faces of Christ: Jesus in Art (Lion Hudson 2011)

• Professor Tom Greggs
Tom is currently Professor of Theology at the University of Chester, and about to take up a new post in the summer as Professor of Historical and Doctrinal Theology in the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of, among others, Barth, Origen, and Universal Salvation: Restoring Particularity (OUP 2009)

• Ken Costa
Ken is Chairman of Lazard Investment Bank, Chairman of Alpha International, and Church Warden of Holy Trinity Brompton

• Dr Graham Tomlin
Graham is Dean of St Mellitus College, and the author of eight books, including most recently The Prodigal Spirit: The Trinity, the Church and the Future of the World (SPTC, 2011)

This is an academic conference with a difference, blending stimulating theological input alongside worship and prayer. It is open to all to all interested in theology and its role in the modern world, whether present at the 2010 conference or not. To book for the conference, please click here.