The next McDonald Centre for Theology Ethics and Public Life Annual Conference, will take place on 10 June 2024.
Within our contemporary moment, the public legitimacy of the Church of England in England’s life and in the United Kingdom’s constitution and political life is being newly explored and questioned, inspiring multiple and complex responses. The recent death of HM Queen Elizabeth II and Coronation of Charles III in May 2023 have brought to the surface some aspects of these concerns.
Hosted at Pusey House, Oxford in partnership with the Centre for Cultural Witness, the Conference brings together an exciting array of speakers from a variety of backgrounds to bring their insights to bear on the past and future of the establishment of the Church of England. The conference brings a focused set of contemporary questions about loyalty, mission, place, ecumenism and inter-faith relations, into conversation with the theology, political thought and history which lie behind the Church of England’s public role.
List of confirmed speakers:
- Tom Holland, historian and host of a popular podcast The Rest Is History.
- Eleanor Sanderson, Anglican Bishop of Hull.
- Andrew Rumsey, Anglican Bishop of Ramsbury.
- Graham Tomlin, Director of the Centre for Cultural Witness.
- Jonathan Chaplin, Divinity Faculty member, University of Cambridge, author of Beyond Establishment.
- Joshua Hordern, Professor of Christian Ethics, Interim Director of the McDonald Centre, University of Oxford.
- Archbishop Angaelos, Coptic Orthodox Archbishop of London.
- David Fergusson, Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge.
- Daniel Greenberg, Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards.
- Catherine Pepinster, historian, former editor of The Tablet.
- John Ritzema, Research Fellow at the Pharos Foundation, researcher at Pusey House.
