The Koinonia Lectures
The Koinonia lectures, co-organised by Westminster Abbey, the Diocese of London, and St Paul’s Cathedral, offer an opportunity to engage with the latest research from a wide range of theological and ecclesiological thinkers.
The programme draws on distinguished speakers from international and ecumenical contexts and explores a diverse range of topics.
There are four online lectures and two in-person lectures, one at St Paul’s and one at Westminster Abbey, each season. Each comprises a 45-minute presentation followed by a question and answer session.
Everyone is welcome to attend the events, which are free of charge, but booking is essential.
Upcoming lectures
Speaking of Human Flourishing
Thursday 17th October, 1pm
Join us for the first of this term’s online seminar talks. Our October seminar will feature Nadia Marais, a Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, an ordained minister in the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa.
Making Deification Real - the Goal of Christian Life in Eastern Christianity
Tuesday 12th November, 1pm
Join us for the first of this term’s online seminar talks. Our November seminar will feature Paul Gavrilyuk, who is the Aquinas Chair in Theology and Philosophy in the Theology Department of the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Previous lectures
Watch a range of previous lectures below.
Malines: Continuing the Conversations
The Reverend Dr Nicholas Sagovsky, the Reverend Professor Thomas Pott and the Reverend Dr Jamie Hawkey discuss the work of the Malines Conversation Group - an international group of Anglican and Catholic scholars - and how we might work towards unity between and within the churches.
Watch: Malines: Continuing the Conversations
Becoming a synodal Church, a call to foster ecumenism
Sister Nathalie Becquart, XMCJ is a French Catholic religious sister and Undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops, Rome. In this lecture she will reflect on the Synod of the Catholic Church, ‘For a synodal Church: communion, participation and mission’, its themes, its potential, and its call to the whole Church.
Watch the Becoming a synodal Church, a call to foster ecumenism
Religious imaginings of the future in a time of crisis
Watch the Religious imaginings lecture
About the speaker
The Revolutionary Children of God: Cultivating a Faith that Creates Communion
Willie Jennings' explores the question 'who are my people?' and considers theological issues of belonging for Christians with The Reverend Dr James Hawkey.
Watch the lecture
You can find recordings of the other lectures in the 2022 - 2023 Koinonia Lectures series on YouTube.