Guiding Missiological Research: The symbiotic relationship between academic excellence, flexible research process design and praxis-focused research output
Overview The lecture will delve into the Guided Research Program exploring other effective ways to present missional research to a broader audience beyond the traditional doctoral program format.
Speaker Rev Canon Mark Oxbrow
About the speaker Mark is an Anglican priest who has spent most of his ministry in cross-cultural mission, initially with the Church Mission Society as International Mission Director and then as the International Director of Faith2Share, a global network of mission agencies. He is now the Programme Director of the Guided Research Programme at Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, serves with the Anglican Communion Office and is a board member of a number of Christian organisations including chairing the board of Solomon Academic Trust which runs the Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies in Oxford.
Journeying in: Exploring the concept of innovative mission research in the light of transformative learning theory
Overview This lecture investigates ways that the integration of innovative mission research and transformative learning theory contribute to and enhance societal engagement and transformation of mission, using OCMS PhD students’ journeys as case study.
Speaker Sara Afshari & Anne Moseley
About the speaker Dr Sara Afshari is Research Tutor at Oxford Centre for Mission Studies. She received her PhD from Edinburgh University in Media Religion and Culture. She is co-founder and former Executive Director of SAT-7 PARS, a Christian television channel in Farsi/Persian language. Her recent book is titled: Religion, Media and Conversion in Iran: mediated Christianity in an Islamic Context. Dr Anne Moseley is an experienced educational researcher who has been working for the last 10 years in the areas of religious education and intercultural learning. She has been a primary school practitioner teaching across the curriculum from reception through to Y6 pupils for over 20 years. Anne is currently developing practical teaching resources in collaboration with the Rose Castle Foundation drawing on the findings that came out of her PhD research. The material is based on an age appropriate adaptation of Scriptural Reasoning principles and current religious education pedagogic principles.
Standing in the Way? Challenges to Missional Ethics in a Multi-contextual World
Speaker Jeffrey B. Riley
About the speaker Jeffrey Riley (PhD, Ethics and Theology) is Professor of Ethics and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. His research, writing, and teaching have focused on theological and biblical ethics, spiritual and historical theology, and the implications of missional contextualization on ethics.
Subsidiarity, Sphere Sovereignty, and State Sovereignty
Speaker Prof. Paul Billingham
About the speaker Paul Billingham is Associate Professor of Political Theory in the Department Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Magdalen College. His work focuses on the implications of diversity and disagreement for politics, with a particular focus on religion.
Modern Christianity as a Narrative of the Deception of Empire: Whither the Promise of Love, Justice, and Peace in the Gospel?
Speaker Dr David Zac Niringiye
About the speaker Dr Niringiye is a bishop in the Church of Uganda, a scholar-practitioner theologian, a peace and social justice activist, and an organizational development consultant. He is currently an Academic Visitor at Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford. His research interests are in Theology and Mission History, Church and Society, and Religion, Culture, and Public Life. Among Dr Niringiye’s publications are: The Church: God’s Pilgrim People (Carlisle, UK: Langham Global Library, 2014); and The Church in the World: A Historical-Ecclesiological Study of the Church of Uganda with Particular Reference to Post-Independence Uganda, 1962-1992 (Carlisle, Cumbria UK: Langham Monographs, 2016).