Theology Group
Programme 2024-25
Tuesday Sept 3rd 2024: Dr Peter Clough
“Religion in Victorian Literature: How Authors Became Theologians”.
On zoom from 7.15pm for start at 7.30pm start.
Tuesday Oct 1st 2024: Revd. Dr Kevin Maddy
“Finding Salvation in a World of Uncertainty”
On zoom from 7.15pm for start at 7.30pm start.
Tuesday Nov 5th 2024: Revd. Dr Stephen Laird FSA FHEA
“Minority Groups in English Christianity: Reality versus Ideology”
On zoom from 7.15pm for start at 7.30pm start.
Tuesday Dec 3rdth 2024: Dr Rosemary Walters
“Radicals and the Future of the Church”
On zoom from 7.15pm for start at 7.30pm start.
Tuesday Jan 7th 2025: Revd. Dr Alan le Grys:
“The Use and Abuse of the Bible in the Contemporary Church”
On zoom from 7.15pm for start at 7.30pm start.
Tuesday Feb 4th 2025: Dr Simon Wilson
“If you don’t love trees, you don’t love God: Orthodox Christian Spirituality and Ecology.”
On zoom from 7.15pm for start at 7.30pm start.
Tuesday May 6th 2025: Dr Philip Knight
“What Can We Learn About Prayer From Jacques Derrida?”
On zoom from 7.15pm for start at 7.30pm start.
Tuesday June 3rd 2025: Revd. Dr Alison Milbank
“Title on Save the Parishes Movement to be supplied”.
On zoom from 7.15pm for start at 7.30pm start.
Past events
Programme 2023-24
Tuesday Sept 5th 2023: Revd. Dr Kevin Maddy
“Science, Religion, AI and a Little Franciscan Sister Called Ilia Delio”
St Stephen’s Church, Hales Drive, Canterbury 7.30pm start
Tuesday Oct 3th 2023: Stephen Barker
“Some hymns and their Theology”
St Stephen’s Church, Hales Drive Canterbury 7.30pm start
Tuesday Nov 7th 2023: Revd. Dr Stacey Rand
“Flexible Instruments in God’s Hands: Understanding Human Work through the Writings of Edith Stein”
On zoom from 7.15pm for start at 7.30pm start.
Tuesday Dec 5th 2023: Revd. Dr Deirdre Good
“Marriage of Same-Sex Couples”
On zoom from 7.15pm for start at 7.30pm start.
Tuesday Jan 9th 2024: Rev Dr David Vannelley
“The Challenges of Fundamental British Values Education in Christian Schools”
On zoom from 7.15pm for start at 7.30pm start.
Tuesday Feb 6th 2024: The Venerable William Adam Archdeacon of Canterbury
“title to be supplied”
On zoom from 7.15pm for start at 7.30pm start.
Tuesday April 9th 2024: Revd. Dr Alan le Grys:
“title to be supplied”
St Stephen’s Church Hales Drive, Canterbury 7.30pm start.
Tuesday May 7th 2024: Professor Rabbi Dan Cohn-Sherbok
“What is Anti-Semitism?”
St Stephen’s Church Hales Drive, Canterbury 7.30pm start.
Tuesday June 4th 2024: Speaker to be confirmed
“title to be supplied”
St Stephen’s Church Hales Drive, Canterbury 7.30pm start.
2022-23
Tuesday Sept 6th 2022: Dr Peter D Toon
“Illness and Sin, Health and Salvation – Boundaries and Overlaps”
St Stephen’s Church, Hales Drive, Canterbury 7.30pm start
Tuesday Oct 4th 2022: Revd. Brian McHenry CBE
“Lay Presidency at the Eucharist”
St Stephen’s Church, Hales Drive Canterbury 7.30pm start
Tuesday Nov 1rd 2022: Victoria Field
“Contemporary Pilgrimage – What’s Really Going On?”
On zoom from 7.15pm for start at 7.30pm start.
Tuesday Dec 6th 2022: Canon Librarian – The Revd Dr Tim Naish.
“title to be supplied”
On zoom from 7.15pm for start at 7.30pm start.
Tuesday Jan 10th 2023: (second Tuesday) Revd. Dr Kevin Maddy
“Formation or deformation? A Christian response to the question of self-identity”
On zoom from 7.15pm for start at 7.30pm start.
Tuesday Feb 7th 2023: Dr. John Moss
“What Are Church Schools For?”
On zoom from 7.15pm for start at 7.30pm start.
Tuesday April 18th 2023: Revd. Dr Alan le Grys
“(provisional): Virtue Ethics: A New Testament Reading”
St Stephen’s Church Hales Drive, Canterbury 7.30pm start.
Tuesday May 2nd 2023: Sally Musker
“Eating in Harmony with the Eucharist”
St Stephen’s Church Hales Drive, Canterbury 7.30pm start.
Tuesday June 6th 2023: Ben Hatfield
“Youth Ministry in a Secular Age ”.
St Stephen’s Church Hales Drive, Canterbury 7.30pm start.
2021-22
Tuesday Sept 7th 2021: Revd. Dr Stephen Laird FSA FHEA
“‘Simply Scripture?’: – On Piety, Power Games and claims around the ‘plain meaning’ of Bible texts.”
St Stephen’s Church Hall, Hales Drive, Canterbury 7.30pm start
Tuesday Oct 5th 2021: Cressida Williams
“A History of St Stephen’s Church from the Cathedral Archives”
St Stephen’s Church, Hales Drive Canterbury 7.30pm start
Tuesday Nov 2rd 2021: Canon Dr Emma Pennington
“‘… to drede him reverently and to love him mekely’: Julian of Norwich’s Development of the Catechetical Teaching on the Gift of Dread.”
On zoom from 7.15pm for start at 7.30pm start.
Tuesday Dec 7th 2021: Dr Rosemary Walters
“Religion in the Poetry of Charles Causely”
On zoom from 7.15pm for start at 7.30pm start.
Tuesday Jan 11th 2022: (second Tuesday) Revd. Kevin Maddy:
“What’s Wrong With Religion, and is it too Late for a Recovery”
On zoom from 7.15pm for start at 7.30pm start.
Tuesday Feb 1st 2022: Professor Kenneth Fincham
“Charles II as supreme governor: the restoration of the Church of England 1660-2”
On zoom from 7.15pm for start at 7.30pm start.
Tuesday March 1st 2022: Revd. Dr Alan le Grys:
“The Quest for the Historical Jesus”
In person (hopefully) St Stephen’s Church Hall and also (hopefully) on zoom from 7.15pm for start at 7.30pm start.
Tuesday May 3rd 2022: Rev Dr Stacey Rand
In person (hopefully) St Stephen’s Church Hall and also (hopefully) on zoom from 7.15pm for start at 7.30pm start.
Tuesday June 7th 2022: Dr Philip Knight
“Etty Hillesum and her God”.
In person (hopefully) St Stephen’s Church Hall and also (hopefully) on zoom from 7.15pm for start at 7.30pm start.
2020-21
Tuesday Sept 8th 2020: Dr Peter Clough
“Teilhard de Chardin: 1881-1955: Jesuit, Evolutionist, Visionary”
Tuesday Oct 6th 2020: Revd. Brian McHenry CBE
“Archbishop William Temple – a re-evaluation, 76 years after his death”
Tuesday Nov 3rd 2020: Rosemary Walters
“The True Wilderness: The Theology of Self in Harry Williams”
Tuesday Dec 1st 2020: Revd. Dr Jenny Corcoran (Bishop of Dover’s Chaplain)
“Rejoicing together: a vision for worship from Deuteronomy”
Tuesday Jan 12th 2021: (second Tuesday) Revd. Kevin Maddy
“Christianity made in Japan: Remembering Kosuke Koyama”
Tuesday Feb 2nd 2021: Bishop Rose Hudson-Wilkin: The Bishop of Dover
Tuesday April 13th 2021: Revd. Dr Alan le Grys
“Disturbing Images of God’ in both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.”
Tuesday May 4th 2021: Sally Musker
Tuesday June 1st 2021: Dr Marcus Averbeck
“An Introduction to Zen”
2019-20
Tuesday Sept 10th 2019: Revd. Dr Stephen Laird FSA FHEA
“John Ruskin: Reading Nature’s Revelation”
Tuesday Oct 1st 2019: Bishop Richard Llewellin
“Climate Change – is it already a ‘done deal’?”
Tuesday Nov 5th 2019: Revd. Stacey Rand
“Love one another: a Theology of Care as Work”
Tuesday Dec 3rd 2019: Revd. Max Kramer (Precentor, Canterbury Cathedral)
“Christianity in Chiaroscuro: The Art and Faith of Caravaggio”
Tuesday Jan 7th 2020: (second Tuesday) Revd. Kevin Maddy:
“Spirituality without God?: The Spirit of Modernism with examples from Scriabin & Kandinsky, Takemitsu & Yoshida”
Tuesday Feb 4st 2020: Rosie Budd
“What do you think you’re doing?: Tentative Reflections on Some aspects of Prayer”
Tuesday April 14th 2020: Revd. Dr Alan le Grys:
“Disturbing Images of God’ in both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.”
Tuesday May 5th 2020: Revd. Dr Jenny Corcoran (Bishop of Dover’s Chaplain)
“Title to be supplied”.
Tuesday June 2nd 2020: Dr Marcus Averbeck
“An Introduction to Zen”
2018-19
Tuesday Sept 11th 2018: Revd. Dr Stephen Laird FSA FHEA
A Look at Acts 10 – the Gentile Pentecost
Tuesday Oct 2nd 2018: Professor John Butler
Why Go to Church?
Tuesday Nov 6th 2018: Victoria Field:
Poetry and Prayer – Parallels and Paradoxes
Tuesday Jan 8th 2019: (second Tuesday) Revd. Kevin Maddy:
Does 21st Century Christianity have anything to learn from Traditional Monasticism?
Tuesday Feb 5st 2019: : Dr Philip Knight
How ‘do’ we Start Theology?: Three Ways of (Not) Speaking of God
Tuesday March 5th 2019: Revd. Dr Alan le Grys:
Digesting the Word: Spiritual and Critical Reading of Scripture’?
Tuesday May 7th 2019: Dr. Peter Toon
The Renaissance of Virtue Ethics
Tuesday June 4th 2019: Briony Kapoor
2017-18
Tuesday Sept 5th 2017: Revd. Dr Stephen Laird FSA FHEA:
The Bible and the Qur’an
Tuesday Oct 3rd 2017: Revd. Dr Alan le Grys:
The best book in the Bible: A Biblical Critical Approach to Understanding the History, Literature and Meaning of the Book of Revelation.
Tuesday Nov 7st 2017: Revd. Stacey Rand (St Stephen’s Curate and Research Fellow at the University of Kent)
Care and Caring: A Theological Reflection
Tuesday Jan 9th 2018: (second Tuesday) Revd. Kevin Maddy:
St Paul on Hope, Justification and God’s Love’: A Scholarly Commentary on Romans 8.
Tuesday Feb 6st 2018: Eduard Heyning:
John Tavener and the Music of Sacred Silence
Tuesday April 10th (second Tuesday) 2018: Revd. Dr Alan le Grys:
Biblical Interpretation since the Enlightenment
Tuesday May 1st 2018: Revd. Dr Anthony Carroll:
Tuesday June 5th 2018: Revd. Dr Jeremy Law
The Theology of Driving