Ninth Institute ~ 1992

NINTH INSTITUTE:
GOOD NEWS to the POOR in the WESLEYAN TRADITION
Somerville College, July 28 - August 7, 1992

Attendance: 167 members + 5 visitors

Pre-Conference for Third World persons at Somerville College (report in OXFORDnotes 3.1)

Keynote Speaker:

Theodore W. Jennings, Jr.
“Wesley and the Poor: An Agenda for Wesleyans”*

Other Plenary Speakers:

Victorio Araya-Guillén
“The 500th Anniversary of the European Invasion of Abya-Yala: An Ethical and Pastoral Reflection from the Third World”*

Rebecca S. Chopp
“Anointed to Preach: Speaking of Sin in the Midst of Grace”*

Donald W. Dayton
“‘Good News to the Poor’: The Methodist Experience after Wesley”*

Richard P. Heitzenrater
“The Imitatio Christi and the Great Commandment: Virtue and Obligation in Wesley’s Ministry with the Poor”*

Itumeleng J. Mosala
“Good News for the Poor: A Black African Hermeneutics”

David Lowes Watson
“Proclaiming Christ in All His Offices: Priest, Prophet and Potentate”*

Working Groups

Biblical Studies
Wesley Studies
Methodist History (post Wesley)
Social Ethics and Practical Theology
Evangelism
Systematic and Contemporary Theology

Observers: Francis Frost (Roman Catholic), Rowan Williams (Anglican)

Rowan Williams’ “Concluding Reflections” on this Institute capture well its tone and its tensions

*Marked papers were published as proceedings of this Institute in:
Meeks, M. Douglas, ed. The Portion of the Poor: Good News to the Poor in the Wesleyan Tradition. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1995. (Available through Amazon.com & Cokesbury.com)

(Paper from Working Group 2 also included in published proceedings:
ST Kimbrough, Jr.
“Charles Wesley and the Poor”)



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