Twelfth Institute ~ 2007

TWELFTH INSTITUTE:
"To SERVE the PRESENT AGE, OUR CALLING to FULFILL"
Christ Church, August 12-21, 2007

Attendance: 232 full and associate members

Group Photo
Attendee List

Pre-Conference for Third World persons at Christ Church (August 9-12) Report of the Pre-Conference

Keynote Speaker:

William H. Willimon
“What If Wesley was Right?”

Other Plenary Speakers:

Ivan Abrahams
“A Different World is Possible: Positioning the Church in the 21st Century.”

Lung-Kwon Lo
“Ecclesiology from the Perspective of Scriptures within Wesleyan and Asian Contexts.”

Robin Lovin
“Vocation and Human Dignity.”

Tim Macquiban
“‘Work on Earth and Rest in Heaven’: A Theology of Vocation in the Writings of Charles Wesley.”

Paulo Ayres Mattos
“‘The World is My Parish - Is It?’: Wesleyan Ecclesio-Missiological Considerations from a Contemporary Latin American Perspective.”

Marjorie Suchocki
“Christian Perfection: A Wesleyan/Process Perspective on Ecclesiology.”

Covenant Service Sermon:
Hope Morgan Ward
“Radiant and Intermingled” (Matthew 5:14-16)

Working Groups:

Biblical Studies
Wesley Studies and Early Methodism
History and Development of Methodism (post-Wesley)
Systematic Theology
Mission and Evangelism
Ethics, Economics, and Globalization
Christian Formation
Science, Technology and Public Policy
Worship and Spirituality
Ecumenism and Other Faiths

Observer: Donald Bolen (Roman Catholic)

Plenary addresses are being prepared for publication



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