KLC is a charity engaging in interdisciplinary, public-theological research, and facilitating the missional research activities of our communities of scholars. As a small staff team, we choose to work intensively on a limited number of projects and consultatively on others. On these project pages, we collate the progress that our projects are making, and we continue to track the impact that our completed projects have in the world.
The giving of the Ten Commandments in Exodus constitutes Israel as God’s nation and establishes key relational and ethical principles upon which their discipleship is based.
The church continues to wrestle with the ambiguity of its relationship to biblical law, and in politics and the marketplace, the erosion of a common ethical bedrock has made our systems of social welfare, democratic freedom and international cooperation vulnerable to assault.
KLC’s Ten Commandments Project aims to recover the power of the decalogue to teach the church and civil society a better way forward, even amidst our very modern cultural challenges.
Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in Abraham Kuyper as a public theologian, but with Kuyper’s Dictaten Dogmatiek now being translated, there is an exciting opportunity to delve further into Kuyper as a constructive, creative theologian in his own right, working at a dynamic point in history. The retrieval of Kuyper’s work is quickly being tied to partisan debates around the role of faith in public life. This raises the unique question of how Kuyper’s theology is being (mis)used.
Global evangelicalism faces challenges on many fronts, some political in nature, some social, some theological. These have led to a fracturing in regions around the world.
To better understand these fractures and to help unify the global community, the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) and the Kirby Laing Centre have partnered together to explore what “evangelical” means for the twenty-first century.
KLC is energised by the need to bring together all the domains of life under the lordship of Christ, recognising his call for all creation to flourish under his shepherding. Our namesake, Sir Kirby Laing, was an exemplar of this principle too, growing a construction company that left its mark on the UK and beyond, while pursuing labour practices and acts of philanthropy that left a mark on eternity. Our biography project aims also to illuminate the connections of Sir Kirby and other leaders within UK evangelicalism.
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