Programme for 2007

• Believing in Community: Ecumenical Reflections on the Church
  November 2007, Sixth of the Leuven Explorations in Systematic Theology
  

  Six members of the Society delivered papers, either at the main conference or at the junior scholars' conference. The papers will be published, but in the meantime to read outlines of all addresses and for more information and reports, visit the LEST 6 website at the Katholieke Universiteit at Leuven.



• Receptive Ecumenism: The Call to Ecumenical Learning
  Saturday 3 November 2007, in partnership with the University of Durham Department of Theology and Religion, at St Mary's Church, Cadogan Street, London SW3
  

  Speakers:

  • Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia
  • Bishop Christopher Hill of Guildford
  • Dr John McDade SJ, Principal of Heythrop College
  • Professor Paul Fiddes, Principal of Regent's Park College
  • David Carter of Wesley College Bristol
  • Dr Paul Murray, Director of the Ecumenical Learning Project, Durham University

  For a report and more background, please follow the links below:

  • Conference Report by Mark Woodruff
  • What is Receptive Ecumenism - The Durham 2006 Experience
  • Receptive Ecumenism - An Overview The paper by David Carter
  • Receptive Ecumenism - An Orthodox Perspective The paper by Metropolitan Kallistos
  • Learning from Others - Baptists & Receptive Ecumenism The paper by Professor Paul Fiddes
  • Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham More details about Receptive Ecumenism, and a virtual cersion of the January 2009 Conference



• Young Ecumenical Leaders of the Future - 'Breaking Down Walls in the 21st Century'
  A second training week for young ecumenical leaders of the future, a collaboration between the Society and the Iona Community took place in September, co-ordinated by Murdoch Mackenzie.

  For the keynote addresses, please follow these links:

  • Keith Clements: Breaking down the Walls - Who Moves the First Stone?
  • Kathy Galloway - Identity & Belonging
  • Freda Lambert - Women and Breaking Down the Walls

  For the feedback reports from the participants to their Churches and to Churches Together in Britain and Ireland and the national instruments, please follow these links:

  • Roy Davidson - Breaking Down the Walls
  • Gill Ferguson - Visit to Iona 2007
  • Daniel Hale - Stories from Iona, and Reconciliation and Unity on Iona
  • Donald Macrae - Iona Ecumenical Week
  • James Milne - Article for Inspire, the magazine of the Scottish Episcopal Church
  • Jane Bradshaw, Hugh Ferguson, Simon Latham - Some Reflections



• Third European Ecumenical Assembly - Hope for Renewal and Unity in Europe'
  4-9 September in Sibiu, Romania. Further details and documents are on the event's website at EEA3. Click here to see Martin Conway's report.


• Together for Europe - Assembly of European Ecumenical Movements and Communities
  May in Stuttgart, Germany. Click here to see Hilary Martin's report.


• Anglican & Roman Catholic Relations – A Kick Start?
  Wednesday 30 May 2007, at Westminster Cathedral's Hinsley Room
  

  Dr Mary Tanner, President of the World Council of Churches, in discussion with Mgr Andrew Faley, Assistant General Secretary, RC Bishops’ Conference of England & Wales.

  Click here to read Mark Woodruff's report on the study and discussion. Click here to see the Minutes of the 2007 Annual General Meeting that preceded it.