The Kingdom and the Power: Legacies of empire in scripture and beyond.

Tickets available:

General Admission: £120

Clergy: £80

Students: £ 60

Online: £60

Global South: £5

Afternoon, Monday 3rd June:

Biblical Theology and Empire Convenor: Dr Trevor Laurence

Keynote speaker: Dr Helen Paynter

Booklaunch

Blessed are the Peacemakers, with Helen Paynter, 6.30pm.

Morning, Tuesday 4th June

Nuance of Empire Convenor: Dr Ashley Hibbard

Keynote speaker: Dr Peter Hatton

Afternoon, Tuesday 4th June

Empire and Postcolonial Readings

Convenor: Kristin Caynor

Keynote speaker: Dr Zac Niringiye

Morning, Wednesday 5th June

The Holy Spirit, Christian Faithfulness, and Empire

Convenor: Francis Mathew

Keynote speaker: Dr Oleksandr Geychenko

Bishop Dr Zac Niringiye

Bishop Zac is a theologian and pastor and a civic-political activist in Uganda, involved in several civil society-led social justice and peace campaigns as a Citizens’ Manifesto Ambassador, an initiative under the Uganda Governance Monitoring Platform coordinated by the Uganda National NGO Forum, notably the Anti-Corruption advocacy in the Black Monday Movement. In addition, a Senior Fellow in a budding think tank - The Institute of Religion, Faith and Culture in Public Life (INTERFACE). Currently researching and writing on The Uganda Crisis and Christian Witness and the Common Good, Bishop Zac holds a PhD in Theology and Mission History from Edinburgh University.

Dr Oleksandr Geychenko

Oleksandr Geychenko is rector of Odesa Theological Seminary, Ukraine, where he got his undergraduate education and then served as senior librarian and academic dean. Oleksandr is the issuing editor of Theological Reflections: Eastern European Journal of Theology and has served on multiple editorial boards, including for the Journal of European Baptist Studies and the Slavic Bible Commentary (E-AAA, 2016). He has a PhD in theology from the University of St. Andrews, UK.

Revd Dr Helen Paynter

Helen is the founding director of the College’s Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence, which exists to facilitate cutting-edge research in the areas of hermeneutics of biblical violence and the abuse of the Bible in a violent world, and to serve the churches by providing resources in these areas. Helen is passionate about the Bible and its power, through the Spirit, to transform lives. Conversely, she is very concerned about the ways that it is sometimes used to cause harm, in a variety of settings. She loves teaching and preaching, and helping others to learn to do so. Her most recent publication is (Zondervan, 2023).

Revd Dr Peter Hatton

Peter an associate lecturer at Trinity College and Bristol Baptist College and a former Methodist Minister. He earned his PhD at the University of Birmingham at the Book of Proverbs and his research interests are in Wisdom Literature of the Old Testament and the Intertestamental Period; Literary approaches to the Old Testament and Biblical Theology. Peter believes profoundly that all inspired Scripture is a reliable, authoritative guide for Christian discipleship.

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