The question How then shall we live? is a perennial challenge. However, today we face a smorgasbord of challenges across the cultural spectrum. If Christ is the clue to all that is then he is the clue to how then shall we live. KLC is committed to pursuing that clue which is Christ with all the rigour we can muster. Our particular contribution is at the level of Christian scholarship across the disciplines while also making our work available at an accessible level.
Rev Dr Craig Bartholomew is the Director of KLC and one of the Trustees. Craig is a native South African, and a graduate of Oxford University and the University of Bristol. He is the author and editor of numerous books, and is currently working on a multi-volume project entitled “Old Testament Origins and the Question of God.” Craig is Senior Research Fellow, Adjunct Faculty at Trinity College, Bristol, and supervises doctorates through them for the University of Aberdeen. Craig loves gardening, is passionate about horses and dressage in particular, and enjoys crafts and jewellery making in particular.
KLC Fellows are prominent scholars and practitioners, working in their own fields, while also part of our Research Collective in some capacity. Formal members of our Research Collective also take the name Fellow.
Integrally Christian research at the highest levels across the disciplines oriented toward the question how then shall we live? is at the heart of KLC. KLC is home to individual scholars, Fellows in a variety of disciplines, doctoral students, and a significant network of scholars through our Scripture Collective and Research Collective.
To embody community we need a place and a people of which, with Jesus, we can say “Come and see!” Central to KLC is our Research Collective (KRC) of interdisciplinary Christian scholars.
The Scripture Collective is made up of four Seminars: Scripture and Hermeneutics (SAHS), Scripture and Doctrine (SADS), Scripture and Church (SACS), and Scripture and University (SAUS). Each Seminar meets four times a year.
KLC is committed to Christian research, across the disciplines, oriented to the question, ‘how then should we live?’ In partnership with Union Theological College, Belfast, we have a team of 14 senior scholars who supervise PhD students. Join our community and our effort to rethink Christian research from a missional standpoint.
KLC hosts a number of events every year, including the four Scripture Collective Seminars, a variety of online webinars in our Nuances series, an Annual Gathering, and an Annual Conference in liason with our partners.
Among our various resources, both academic and accessible, is our newsletter Sibylline Leaves, our monthly Ethics in Conversation, our public lecture series Nuances in Public Theology, our blog Director and Friends, and our quarterly magazine The Big Picture.
KLC offers certain scholarships for Christian scholars conducting doctoral research in specific areas. One example is the Norman Anderson Law Award which seeks to support the doctoral research of a young or early career Christian legal scholar. We also help administrate the Bible Society Academic Grants Programme, supporting research in Bible and contemporary society. For more information about the scholarships and application process, please contact us.
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KLC is deeply committed to healthy strategic partnerships, of which we have several.
BibleMesh has sponsored our Scripture Collective for several years and we have a developing relationship with them, including co-publication of our Quarterly magazine, The Big Picture.
We work with many publishers but are delighted to have a special publishing partnership with Zondervan (and BibleMesh).
KLC is healthily ecumenical and we are delighted to have a developing relationship with the Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem, and with the Dominicans in Cambridge and Oxford, all partners in our Annual Conference in Cambridge.
Through generous sponsorship and the provision of Rosemary Hales as a superb administrator British and Foreign Bible Society made the initial nine years of the Scripture and Hermeneutics Seminar possible. We are grateful for an ongoing relationship with them.
We have partnered, and continue to partner with many wonderful organisations in our various events and publications.
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