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CHRISTIAN
DOCTRINE

The Christian Doctrine Study Group of Tyndale Fellowship exists to promote evangelical scholarship within the disciplines of Christian Doctrine and Historical Theology.

We meet in-person at the annual Tyndale Fellowship conference, along with the Fellowship's other study groups.

Chair

Co-Chair

Programme: Christian Doctrine Study Group

Tyndale Fellowship Conference, 30 June - 2 July 2025

All seven study groups of the Tyndale Fellowship meet concurrently in the same venue, sharing mealtimes, coffee breaks, Tyndale Fellowship Lectures, a prayer meeting, worship service and members' meeting. Attendees are welcome to spend time in the other study groups during the conference.

Theme: Doctrine of Creation

New explorations of a doctrine of creation have been forthcoming from scholars at the intersection of theology and other disciplines, from the tradition, and from approaches engaging matters of racial, social, and environmental justice. The Christian Doctrine study group will explore this subject in eleven papers from a range of perspectives within the broad evangelical tradition, including systematic theological approaches, exegetical and historical bases, and how a doctrine of creation relates to contemporary issues. With our annual Tyndale Lecture by Craig Bartholomew, we will also host a panel on Brian Brock’s, Joining Creation’s Praise: A Theological Ethic of Creatureliness.

Monday 30 June

16:00 - 18:30

  • Adam Morton, University of Nottingham (UK), 'Creation as Truth and Promise in Luther’s Genesis Lectures'

  • Tony Lane, London School of Theology (UK), 'Christian Theology and Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence'

  • Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Fuller Theological Seminary (USA), '"What’s the Time?’: Dogmatic Reflections on the Relationship between Time[-Space] and Eternity with regard to Eschatological Consummation'

Tuesday 1 July

10:00 - 12:30

  • Lydia Jaeger, Institut Biblique de Nogent-sur-Marne (France), 'The Cultural Mandate Between Creation and New Creation'

  • Darren Sarisky, Australian Catholic University (Australia), 'The Church in Creation: Ecclesiology's Need for Natural Theology in the Work of T. F. Torrance'

  • Myk Habets, Laidlaw College (New Zealand), 'Pro-Nicene Theology Re-examined: We believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible'

17:00 - 18:30
Book Panel: Brian Brock, 'Joining Creation’s Praise: A Theological Ethic of Creatureliness' (Baker 2025)

  • Anthony Reddie University of Oxford (UK)

  • Rachel Muers, University of Edinburgh (UK)

  • Stephen Williams, Union Theological College, Belfast (UK)

  • Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen (UK)

Wednesday 2 July

10:00 - 12:30

  • David Emerton, St Mellitus College (UK), 'The Otherness of the Other: Creaturely Sin and Ecclesial Salvation in a Bonhoefferian Key'

  • Luke Foster, Oak Hill College (UK), 'Creation and New Creation in the Theology of Gustavo Gutiérrez: Liberating the ‘eschatological imagination’'

  • Jonah Horne, St Basil’s Church (UK), 'The vitality of the doctrine of the imago dei in light of those who have committed sexual offences'

  • Jared Lovell, St Mellitus College (UK), 'On the Moral Ambiguity of Creatureliness: Creation Ex Nihilo as Change'

  • Jack Driver-Szekely, St Mellitus College (UK), 'Transformed into an image of Christ: Christological anthropology informed by disability theology'

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