Events

Event Information:

• Sat

  14

  Jul

  2018

  'More Light, Less Heat'? Study Day

  10.30-3.30 Englesea Brook Chapel & Museum

  Did the Primitive Methodist Arthur Samuel Peake, the Wesleyan Joseph Agar Beet, and others, by enabling their students to accept biblical criticism and by adapting tradition to modern insights, help to take Methodism forward into the 20th century and beyond or merely drive the first nails into its coffin?

  Programme for the day

  10.00   Tea and coffee on arrival

  10.30   David Young
  Change and Decay : Primitive Methodism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

  Cambridge Primitive Methodist Circuit opposed the introduction of ministerial training, saying, 'We thoroughly disapprove of the proposed training scheme as dangerous to the piety of young men. What they will gain in light they will lose in heat.'  Were they right?

  11.30  Revd Dr Martin Wellings, Oxford Memorial Church, Methodist historian
  The Preacher and the Modern Mind: A Wesleyan Methodist Case Study in Light and Heat

  12.30    Lunch

  13.30    Rev Simon Sutcliffe, Queen's Theological College, Immerse community
  A Plea for (a Methodist) Contextual Theology. 

  Simon Sutcliffe is interested in the need to take context and experience seriously in any modern  theological endeavour. This, in turn, places us in a far better place to engage with that context for the sake of the Gospel.

  14.30   Open Discussion with the Panel

  Cost:  £10.00 (which includes lunch)

  Please contact us to book your place.