Events at the Abbey

• 25 February 2013 A Service of Thanksgiving for the Lord Denman CBE MC TD

• 27 February 2013 Whitehall Conversation: Doing God in the Middle East

  A 'Doing God' lecture for Civil Servants, in association with Christians in Government, Christians in Parliament, and Theos.
  Speaker: Archbishop Angelos of the Coptic Church, which is the majority Christian Church in the Middle East.

• 28 February 2013 Sixth Form Conference: Doing God

  A 'Doing God' conference for invited sixth forms in which students will hear a debate between Lucy Winkett, priest, and Andrew Copson, the director of the National Humanist Society, and attend workshops on Doing God in politics, ethics, art, music, finance, the Abbey, the Bible, and Not Doing God.

• 28 February 2013 Drama and Dialogue: God in scriptural narrative

  What sort of reality is God in the Christian tradition? The drama and dialogues of the scriptures present a picture of God as a communicative, personal, moral, agent: that is, a reality who addresses us, who causes things to happen in our world, and who give value to things in the world. This first lecture explores the plausibility and credibility of this sort of picture of God.

• 02 March 2013 Annual Day of Prayer: Poetry, Painting and Prayer

  A day of reflection led by the Right Reverend Dr Christopher Herbert, former Bishop of St Albans.

• 07 March 2013 Theology Seminar: Atheists - Origin of the Species

  A Work in Progress Seminar for those in Christian ministry, in association with the Diocese of London.
  Speaker: Dr Nick Spencer, Research Director of Theos Think Tank

• 07 March 2013 Transcendence and Perfection: God in classical orthodoxy

  What happens when personal experiences of God displayed in the scriptures are subjected to philosophical scrutiny? Philosophical theology has tried to relate these experiences to other demands of the religious and intellectual life: notions of infinity, eternity, and perfection. Must these concepts also belong to our picture of God? This second lecture explores these wider themes.

• 11 March 2013 Interfaith Event: Commonwealth Observance Day Seminar

  For invited faith leaders
  Speaker: Bishop Michael Ipgrave will consider how well the Church of England is meeting the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee challenge, to ‘protect the free practice of all faiths in this country’

• 14 March 2013 Interfaith Event: Promoting Spiritual and Religious Literacy

  A 'Doing God' seminar for teachers, in association with the Christian-Muslim Forum.

• 14 March 2013 Mystery and Play: God in mysticism and post-modernity

  To hold together experiences of a personal God with concepts of an infinite and eternal God can lead to intellectual and imaginative paralysis. The puzzling and fragmented life we experience in late-modernity can do the same. Christian tradition has always acknowledged this as a necessary mystery. This final lecture explores how understanding of God, and our experience of God, must embrace such mystery.

• 19 March 2013 Livingstone bicentenary wreathlaying

• 26 March 2013 Holy Week Concert

  All tickets for this concert are sold through the Barbican box office. Visit www.barbican.org.uk to book online.

• 02 May 2013 28th Eric Symes Abbott memorial lecture: Constantine's Vision and the Church Today

  Speaker: Professor Dame Averil Cameron FSA FKC, Former Warden of Keble College, Oxford.

• 15 May 2013 Lufthansa Festival Concert

  Box office: www.sjss.org.uk

• 04 June 2013 A Service to Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Coronation Service

• 07 June 2013 Coronation Lecture by the Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dr Richard Chartres, Bishop of London

  Admission free but booking required (opens in April 2013)

• 13 June 2013 A Concert celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II

  Full programme, ticket prices, and booking details to be announced in February 2013.

• 16 July 2013 Summer Organ Festival

  Booking opens April 2013

                                           

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