KLC hosts a whole variety of events as we seek to embody our vision of fostering and nurturing Christian scholarship and public theology, rooted in spirituality and practiced in community. Some of these events include our regular webinars and public lecture series, the monthly meetings of the KRC, our informal KLC Coffee Times, the quarterly meetings and Annual Meal of the four Scripture Collective Seminars, as well as our summer KLC Annual Conference hosted in liaison with our partners.
This webinar will be HOSTED BY SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS: Thursday 16 September 2021, 2PM UK Time
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Approaching the world as God’s creation changes everything! Yet, how does it change the way we approach our academic disciplines as Christians? On Thursday, 16 September 2021 at 1400 UTC/GMT, Dr Craig Bartholomew, Director of the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology in Cambridge, UK, will discuss how a full-orbed doctrine of creation is of vital importance today and why we need to have it operational within our studies and research. He will also explore some of the ways in which it transforms and shapes individual disciplines, enables us to engage in dialogue with scholars who hold very different worldviews, and opens up the interrelationship among the disciplines. In the end, he argues for seeing the world as it really is as ‘charged with the grandeur of God’ (Gerard Manly Hopkins), bringing hope to a jaded world. In preparation for the webinar, take some time to read the introduction and various chapters to his most recent book, The Doctrine of Creation (IVP Academic, 2020). Register TODAY to engage in this important conversation!
Zoom Event: Thursday 23 September 2021, 5:30PM-7:30PM UK Time
Psalm 82 is dynamite. We suggest you prepare for this session by spending time with this psalm. Craig will expound this psalm with a view to opening up the unique view of law in OT Israel, and its implications for today.
Zoom Event: Tuesday 5 October 2021, 5:30PM-7:30PM UK Time
We have hosted a number of events on the Doctrine of Creation to accompany the publication of Bruce Ashford’s and Craig Bartholomew’s book with this title. Robby Holt is the Senior Pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Robby is an outstanding preacher and we have invited him to lead us in an exploration of what a series of sermons on creation might look like today.
Zoom Event: Thursday 21 October 2021
Zoom Event: Tuesday 2 November 2021, 5:30PM-7:30PM UK Time
Real Presences is an extraordinary book by George Steiner, which every thinker should be familiar with. Steiner argues that the waters have been thoroughly muddied in our engagement with art and literature, provides a profound diagnosis of the causes, and proposes a surprising, theological solution. Our Research Fellow in Media, Journalism and Communications, Dr Jenny Taylor, will lead us through the argument of the book and set the framework for engagement with it. Not to be missed!
Zoom Event: Thursday 11 November 2021, 5:30PM-7:30PM UK Time
Auerbach’s Mimesis is a tour de force, and should be a familiar resource for every biblical scholar, seminarian, pastor and Christian thinker. Alas, it rarely receives the attention it still deserves. Andrew White, a professor of literature will introduce this classic to us and help us to see its ongoing and seminal relevance.
Zoom Event: Friday 10 December 2021
Zoom gathering: Thursday 2 September – Thursday 9 December 2021 (70 min per week for 15 weeks)
The KLC centre is deeply committed to doing our work in community and grounded in deep spirituality. You are invited to join us for this 15-week group, meeting – at this stage – every Thursday at 8pm-9.10pm UK time. This time is chosen to make it possible for our North American friends to participate as well as UK and European and southern African, etc., members of our community. At our first meeting we will discuss the best day and time for the group as a whole, as well as how the group will operate. The group will be led by Craig Bartholomew.
Our main book will be Margaret Silf’s Landmarks: An Ignatian Journey (London: DLT, 1998). Silf’s book is widely recognized as one of the best introductions to Ignatian spirituality. If you buy it do buy the UK DLT edition – for some reason the US edition removed the great line drawings from their edition. We will ground our work in Scripture, and aim at developing our practice of Christian spirituality in relation to the particular circumstances of our lives.
The group is open to all but as you reflect on joining it a few caveats:
The course will culminate in a KLC prayer day on Friday 10 December, led by Ken Herfst, and an event with a leading authority on Christian spirituality – still to be confirmed. All in all the course should position us well to journey on into Advent.
Zoom Event: Thursday 24 June, 4-6.30pm UK time – 11am-1.30pm EST
We recently hosted a rich event with Leon Kass on his commentary on Exodus. Chris Wright has also recently published a commentary on Exodus (Zondervan Academic) and in this event Wright will reflect on Bartholomew’s God Who Acts in History: The Significance of Sinai (Eerdmans, 2020), and Bartholomew will reflect on Wright, Exodus (2021). There will be an hour after each author’s response for questions and discussion. In the final 30 minutes Robby Holt will lead a reflection on preaching a series on Exodus.
Zoom gathering: Thursdays, 9:00PM UK time / 4:00PM ET, starting thursday 3 june, 1 hour max.
Following the completion of Leon Kass’ excellent book on Exodus – Founding God’s Nation: Reading Exodus – the KLC Reading Group will continue to dig into the book of Exodus itself and explore some key themes raised in Kass’ work throughout the month of June. We will then conclude with KLC’s virtual webinar featuring Dr Craig Bartholomew and Dr Chris Wright on Exodus on 24 June.
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The Reading Group is open to all interested and you do not need to have to have read Kass to participate, so please do RSVP below.
Zoom Event: Tuesday 1 June, 5:30-7:30PM UK time
Søren Kierkegaard is one of KLC‘s favourite philosophers, and C. Stephen Evans is one of the world authorities on Kierkegaard.
Join us for a Zoom event with a major group of contemporary philosophers as we engage with Evans’s recent book: Kierkegaard and Spirituality: Accountability as the Meaning of Human Existence (Kierkegaard as a Christian Thinker) where Evans describes Kierkegaard’s contributions to spirituality – both Christian and more generally human.
Zoom Concert: Saturday, 15 May, 7-9PM UK time
Leon Kass observes that “The artists are God’s prophets for the eyes. The beauty they cultivate becomes the skin of the good and the holy.”
KLC warmly invites you to join us for our first Concert entitled Full Circle: From Lament to Praise and Back Again. Hosted in partnership with Deus ex Musica, this virtual concert will feature a smorgasbord of rich music, dance, drama, and poetry. Book your ticket now and join us as our artists help us to see and develop skins of the good and the holy amidst our current challenges.
Zoom event: Tuesday 6 April, 5-7:30PM UK time
If you are looking for biblical interpretation that opens out onto all of life, then Leon Kass’s work is in a class of its own. We invite you to join us for a 2.5-hour zoom event to respond to this exciting new work, with an introduction by Leon Kass and a lineup of presentations given by biblical scholars and theologians engaging with the book. The event will conclude with a time for Q&A with the speakers and Leon Kass.
Zoom gathering: Thursdays, 8:00PM UK time, 1 hour max
Leon Kass’ new commentary on Exodus, Founding God’s Nation: Reading Exodus, published in January 2021 (Yale University Press), is a tour de force of biblical interpretation—an example of deeply thoughtful, academically rigorous, accessibly written, profoundly creative work that opens up the riches of the book of Exodus for contemporary life. Recognizing the uniqueness and significance of this achievement, KLC’s Scripture and Hermeneutics Seminar is hosting a reading group to systematically work through Kass’ book and process his work communally.
Zoom Event: Thursday 1 April 2021, Maundy Thursday in Holy Week
We invite you to join us in spending the day in prayer as we accompany Jesus to the cross, and beyond to his resurrection. We will be hosting three moments of prayer on the day: Morning prayer, Day prayer, and Virtual Eucharist. Select Learn More to see all times and to RSVP.
