Montagu Barker Lectures
Dr Montagu Barker enjoying a discussion with OCMS scholar Brainerd Prince
Lectures and Study
This legacy evolved into the weekly Tuesday Lectures. The topics reflect the diversity of Christian backgrounds, cultural contexts and multidisciplinary nature of mission studies being done at OCMS. These lectures have been the primary source of original papers published in our peer-reviewed journal, Transformation, which facilitates wider dissemination of current thinking in mission studies at OCMS.
These public lectures are intended to contribute to addressing the needs of what Professor Walls calls, ‘Post-Western Christianity,’ focusing particularly on expounding the theological, biblical and missiological contribution the church in the global ‘South’ is making. The dissemination of these lectures through print and audio is expected to be a resource for ‘a new age of Christian scholarship’ in the growing church.
Lectures usually start at 11am. The OCMS Website calendar has a full list of times, dates and any changes to the schedule.
Forthcoming Lectures:
2013
| 14th May |
Brian Wakeman |
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Poetry as Research and Therapy |
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| 21st May |
Dr Ben Knighton |
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"Ranking the Research Skills for your Research Project" |
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| 28th May |
Dr Mark Beaumont |
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Christian views of Muhammad |
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| 4th June |
Dr Benno and Berdine van den Toren |
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'The changing role of the missionary in a multicultural world' |
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| 11th June |
30th Anniversary Celebrations |
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| 18th June |
Dr Peter Rowan MA PhD (OMF International UK National Director) |
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| 25th June |
Dr Valentin Kozhuharov (Independent researcher) |
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| “Christian education at states schools in Europe” | |||
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| 9th July |
Brian Woolnough |
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"Good News from Africa – Holistic Mission in Action” |
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| 16th July |
Dr George Kunnath (Lecturer in Modern Indian Studies, School of Inter-disciplinary studies, South Asian Studies, Oxford) |
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'Development Aspirations and Limits of Armed Struggle: Dalits and the Maoist Movement in India' |
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| 23rd July |
Dr Ruth Porter (Communications Director, Institute of Economic Affairs) |
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"Communicating good research" |
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| 30th July |
Dr Amos Yong |
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“From Every Tribe, Language, People, and Nation: Diaspora, Hybridity, and the Coming Reign of God”
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| 3rd September |
Dr Julie Ma |
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| The Role of Christian Women in the Global South | |||
| 10th September |
Dr Knud Jorgensen (Areopagos, Norway) |
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Mission as Ministry of Reconciliation |
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| 17th September |
Prof Kirsteen Kim |
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"Korean Christianity: Protestant or Catholic?" |
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| 1st October |
Dr Elena Narinskaya Academic Researcher Song School |
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'Figure of Moses in Three Abrahamic Religions' |
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| 22nd October |
Dr Lars Laamann |
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Syncretic spiritualism in early twentieth-century China |
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| 3rd December |
Dr Richard Mccallum |
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The teaching of Islam in theological colleges |
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Recent Lectures at OCMS
7th May: Dr Kevin Cawley (Irish Institute of Korean Studies)
'Texts, Contexts and early Catholicism in Korea'
30th April: Edward Mogire
From government to governance:the evolving security architecture in the Horn of Africa'.
23rd April: Dr Maik Arnold
The Religious Self in Mission: A cultural-psychological analysis of autobiographical narratives of German Protestant missionaries
16th April: Dr Shihan Desilva (Senior Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London)
Legacies of Empire and Commerce: Afro-Sri Lankans
9th April: Dr Shabbir Akhtar (CMCS/St Stephen’s Hall)
A Muslim philosopher reads Paul's letter to the Galatians
2nd April: Dr Mark M. Overstreet (Vice President T4 Global)
"Orality: Global Implications for Mission Engagement."
26th March:Dr H. L. Richard
'The Insider Movement Controversy and it Ramifications for Christian Hindu Relations'
19th March: Dr Andy Lord
"Charismatic Church and Mission in Times of Austerity".
13th March: Rev Andrew Stirling
‘Faithfulness in the Canadian Context: The Concreteness of Trinitarian Mission in an age of the ‘God-Idea’.
12th March: Dr Candy Gunther Brown (Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University)
"Pentecostal Healing Prayer in an Age of Evidence-Based Medicine."
5th March: Dr Andrea Pass
British women missionaries in India
26th February: Marieke Clarke
“Why Queen Lozikeyi Dlodlo of the Ndebele wanted missionaries”.
19th February: Dr Kathryn Kraft
"Supporting Civil Society in the Middle East through Stories for Peace"
12th February:Professor James Grayson
A Korean Apocalyptic Vision and Old Testament Imagery'.
5th February: Rev Dr Keith Small BA (Western Michigan University) ThM (Dallas Theological Seminary) PhD (Brunel)
"Corrections to Qur'an and New Testament Manuscripts: Snapshots of Textual History"
29th January: Dr Tim Keene
'Reflecting to be transformed, being transformed to reflect.'
22nd January: Dr Tom Harvey
“Word, Revelation and Mission: Integral Biblical Missiological Engagement”.
15th January: Dr Wonsuk Ma
‘Life, Justice and Peace: A Korean Pentecostal Reflection through Isaiah on the 10th Assembly of the WCC’
8th January: Dr Makon Getu
"Microfinance criticism and Christian response"
11th December: Dr Damon So
'Trinity and Mission'
4th December: Professor Daniel Jeyaraj (Liverpool Hope University)
"Hindu-Christian Perceptions in the mission field: a case study of Lutheran and Tamil Bhakti Participants in South India (1712-1714)"
27th November: Dr Daniel Brown
"Kenneth Cragg and the Protestant Moment in Islam"
20th November: Dr Tom Harvey
"Wang Mingdao and the Daode (道德): Enculturation and Biblical interpretation"
Wednesday 14th November: 2pm : Dr Elizabeth Koepping (University of Edinburgh)
'Faith, Culture and the Sin of Silence: Spousal Violence in the Christian World'
13th November: Rev Dr Mark Chan (lecturer in Theology and Research Coordinator, faith and society, CSCA, Trinity Theological College, Singapore)
"Worship, Public Theology and Christian Witness: Some Reflections."
6th November: Ray Hall. (An architect, planner and interior designer based in London)
Exploring the design relationship between God, people and places
30th October: The Revd. Canon Dr Adrian Chatfield. (Director of the Simeon Centre for Prayer and the Spiritual Life and Tutor in Christian Life and Thought.)
‘Who am I?’ Some Missiological Implications of Theological Anthropology.
23rd October: The Revd. Canon Mark Oxbrow. International Director, Faiths2Share
"A global survey of current developments with new and emerging mission movements and missional churches"
16th October 2012: Dr William S. Campbell (Reader in Biblical Studies and Islamic Studies, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
"No Distinction or no Discrimination between Jew and Greek: Paul's Ethnic Discourse"?
Monday 15th October: Fr Martin Ritsi (Executive Director Orthodox Christian Mission centre Florida)
Orthodox Mission: Contemporary praxis in historical context
9th October: Dr David Adams. Good Work Witney
"How you get there is where you'll arrive: means and ends in practitioner research"
2nd October: Dr Younghae, Chi,
‘How do we own things? An Augustinian view of ownership’.
25th September: Dr Sas Conradie
Biblical generosity and mission giving in a changing world context’
18th September: Dr Silviu Tatu (Associate Professor of OT Exegesis and Theology at the Pentecostal Theological Institute in Bucharest)
The call of Abram: when was it heard and fulfilled? A study in inner-textuality.
11th September: Dr Kang San Tan
"Why Christian missions was unsuccessful among Asian Religions?"
4th September: Revd Dr Benno Van den Toren(Academic Dean and Tutor in Doctrine at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford)
“Teaching Ethics in the Face of Africa’s Moral Crisis: Reflections from a Guest”
31st July 2012: Dr Samuel Cyuma:
Reconciliation:The Third Way Paradigm
24th July 2012: Dr Joshua Iyadurai ( Director, Mylapore Institute for indigenous Studies)
“Step Model of Transformative Religious Experiences”
17th July 2012: Dr Anya Munster:
"Transnationl Islamic Networks"
10th July 2012: Dr Thomas Jansen (Lecturer in Chinese Studies/Confucius Institute Director. School of Cultural Studies. University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter Campus)
“Christianity on the Ground: Chinese Sectarianism and Christian Missions in 19th Century China”
"Myths, Media and Mission: A Mythical representation of Religions in the Media and the challenges for Christian Mission Today"
"Speaking Greek under Rome: Paul, the Language of Power and the Power of Language"
"Paying Attention: Towards a Theology of Mission as Healing"
"Christ, Culture and Religion"
29th May 2012: Rt. Rev. Michael Nazir-Ali(Oxford Centre for Training, Research, Advocacy & Dialogue)
'A Theological Reflection on the Social Involvement of Churches - from the Contemporary Romanian Context'
Friday 11th May 2012: Professor Otniel Bunaciu
'The Problem of Evil'
8th May 2012: Professor Richard Swinburne
'A Reflection on Christian Mission in the 21st Century with Special reference to the Church of Nigeria.'
24th April 2012: Dr Stephen Fagbemi
"Islam's Platonism behind the mask of Liberalism"
"The Great Delusion: post-colonial language policy for mission and development in Africa reviewed"
"How We Lived Before White Men Came: Meru, Kenya: The Life & Death of the Witchcraft Guilds--Meru, Kenya"
'Shaped by the Story: A Pauline perspective on the story of Christ and our participation in the story of redemption '
20th March 2012: Dr Corneliu Constantineanu (Rector, Institutul Teologic Penticostal din Bucuresti)
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell": A sociological discussion of how converts out of Islam relate to their birth communities
"A Challenging Portrait of Asian Pentecostalism"
14th February 2012: Dr Wonsuk Ma
"Catholic social teaching and development aid"?
13th December, 2011: Dr Philip Booth (Professor of Insurance and risk management, faculty of actuarial science and statistics, Cass Business School, City University)
Holy Scriptures and their use by Christians and Muslims in East Africa
1st November, 2011: Dr John Chesworth
Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies, Oxford
The Cape Town Commitment: Challenges and Opportunities
18th October, 2011: Dr Chris Wright (Langham Partnership, London)
Christian Views of the Qur'an: past and present
4th October, 2011: Dr Martin Whittihgham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies, Oxford)
Transfiguration in Contemporary Christian Theology: Spirituality and Mission of the Church today
27th September, 2011: Dr Clare Amos (Director of Theological Studies, The Anglican Communion Theological Education)
Reading Genesis in the Context of Islam
20th September, 2011: Dr Ida Glaser (Associate Tutor and Academic Director of the Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies in Oxford)
Talking about God in Practice
13th September 2011: Dr Clare Watkins (Theological Consultant: Catholic theologian, teacher and writer)
Good news for all? Reflections on the Pentecostal Full Gospel
6th September, 2011: Dr Andy Lord (University of Birmingham)
Inspiration and Challenges fro Cape Town and Edinburgh to Church and Mission
19th August, 2011: Dr Knud Jorgensen
Local Church and Livelihood Construction: Interlocking Social Domains and Evolving Scenarios of Synergy for Mission in Nyamira, Kenya
26th July, 2011: Edward Ontita (Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Work, University of Nairobi, and Visiting Tutor, OCMS)
Early Christian Engagement with Poverty
19th July, 2011: Very Rev Dr Richard Finn (Regent, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford)
Research for Development: Why id there so little of it?
12th July 2011: Dr Graham Mytton (Audience Research Training and Consultancy)
Middle East Crisis
'The economic roots of the Middle East uprising' - Dr Adeel Malik
'Egypt, Israel and the Middle East Turmoil' - Dr Kameel Majdali
'Christians in the Middle East: past, present and future' - Colin Chapman
July 5th 2011: A One Day Conference 10.30 - 4.30
Helical Capitalism - A New Solution to an Old Problem
Institute of Commonwealth Studies
School of Advanced Studies, University of London
Frontiers of Gospel and Culture in Contemporary UK Society
Pentecostal Ecclesiology: a view from the South
