Society for Reformation Studies

7th Annual Conference, 29-31 March 2000
at Westminster College, Cambridge

Christian Humanism

Wednesday, March 29th 2000
14.00
Registration starts

15.45
Tea in the Common Room


16.30 Healey Room and Elias Library
Welcome by the Chairman, Ian Hazlett, University of Glasgow

16.45-18.15
Session I: Healey Room and Elias Library
Chair: Paul Ayris

16.45
Helen Evans, University of Cambridge
The bringing of Jersey into the Church of England

17.30
Jeffrey Leininger, University of Cambridge
The Gospel according to John Bale

18.15
Close

18.30
Dinner


19.45-21.15 Session II: Healey Room and Elias Library
Chair: David Wright, University of Edinburgh

19.45
John Jackson, University of Oxford
The Royal Supremacy, the Reformatio Legum and England's Caput Supremum: Replacing the 'Pope's Law' with the King's Law

20.30
Marianne Dorman, University of Oxford
Andrewes and the Seventeenth Century on Ecumenism

21.15
Session ends


Thursday, March 30th 2000

07.45
Breakfast

09.30-11.00
Session III: Healey Room and Elias Library
Chair: John Jackson, University of Oxford

09.30
Patrick Preston, University College, Chichester
Ambrosius Catharinus and the Counter-Reformation rejection of Humanism

10.15
Tony Lane, London Bible College
Albert Pighius's Controversial Doctrine of Original Sin

11.00
Coffee in the Common Room


11.30-13.00
Session IV: Healey Room and Elias Library
Chair: Anne Overell, Open University

11.30
Scott Amos, St Andrews University
New Learning, Old Theology: Renaissance Biblical Humanism, Scripture and the Question of Theological Method

12.15
Richard Rex, University of Cambridge
Humanism and the Reformation: conflict or convergence?

13.00
Lunch


14.15-16.00
Session V: Healey Room and Elias Library
Chair: Peter Stephens

14.15
Keynote Paper
David Wright, University of Edinburgh
The Early Church Fathers in the Scottish Reformation

15.15
Paul Ayris, UCL
Patterns of Reformation in the Register of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer

16.00
Tea in the Common Room


18.15
Conference Dinner

20.00
Concert in Westminster College Chapel by members of the choir from Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge


Friday, March 31st 2000

07.45
Breakfast

09.30-11.00
Session VI: Healey Room and Elias Library
Chair: Richard Rex, University of Cambridge

09.30
Anne Overell
Dangerous Liaisons: Edward VI's Christian Humanism and Italian Interventions, 1547-53

10.15
Patricia Demers, University of Alberta
Studying "the booke of the crucifixe, by continuall conversacion in faythe": Kateryn Parr's The Lamentation of a synner as Reformation Paraphrase

11.00
Coffee in the Common Room


11.30-12.45
Session VII: Healey Room and Elias Library
Chair: Tony Lane, London Bible College

11.30
Andreas Löwe, University of Cambridge
Biblical exegesis at the outset of the Catholic Reformation

12.15
Michael Lawrence, University of Cambridge
The Theological Formation of Thomas Goodwin in early Stuart Cambridge

13.00
Lunch

14.00
Annual General Meeting

14.30
Departures


For all enquiries, please contact Paul Ayris, who is the Society's Secretary.

©Paul Ayris, Secretary of the Society for Reformation Studies. Last updated 27 March 2000.