The Church of Ireland Theological Institute is pleased to announce a webinar event for all Church of Ireland members to explore ‘online church in a post–lockdown world’.

This event is free of charge and is scheduled to take place on Friday, 16th April, from 10.00am to 12.30pm.  (Registration is required in advance – please see details below).

The morning will consist of two sessions led by the Venerable Bob Jackson.  It will include opportunities for group discussion, a coffee break, and a final plenary session during which Archbishop Michael Jackson will offer a short personal response to the webinar content.

Bob Jackson was a Government Economic Adviser in the days before Mrs Thatcher was invented. After twenty years of parish ministry in Yorkshire he became a missioner working for the two English archbishops, then an archdeacon. More recently he has focussed on the theory and practice of church growth.  Having tried to retire he came out of retirement to help think through good practice and the future of online church. Bob is the author of numerous publications, most recently Everybody Welcome Online and Everybody Welcome to the Future. He leads a families–based fresh expression of church in his village of Eyam in Derbyshire and invents pilgrimage routes in his spare time. He is married to Christine with two grown up children and four grandchildren.

To register in advance for this event

Please click on link:    

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpcOiupz4vHtTL0mDhZLllFW_AHJ9wJEwc

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Please note closing date for registration is: 31st March 2021.

Upon closing date, you will be invited to complete a very short survey in advance of the

event.

If you have any further queries please contact Jane Kelly (janekelly@theologicalinstitute.ie )

To mark the 150th anniversary of the Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland (through the Irish Church Act 1869), the Church of Ireland Theological Institute will host a colloquium on Saturday, 30th November, featuring three historians who will speak on Disestablishment and its context within Irish history. The event will start at 9.30am and finish for lunch at 1.00pm.
The speakers will address the following themes:
• Professor Alan Ford – ‘“Flagrant breeches”: the making, breaking and re–making of the Church of Ireland canons, 1870–1974’;
• Dr Miriam Moffitt – ‘“Truly thankful do I feel”: a constitutional crisis averted by the Queen’;
• Professor Salvador Ryan – ‘Disestablishment and the Roman Catholic response: a brief survey’.
The Theological Institute is located at Braemor Park, Churchtown, D14 KX24, and the colloquium will take place in the Hartin Room. This event should be of particular interest to historians, academics, clergy and lay members of the Church of Ireland and members of other Churches with an interest in this period in the history of Britain and Ireland.
The registration fee is €5 (including coffee) and delegates are asked to pay at the registration desk, which will be open from 9.00am. An optional buffet lunch is available for an additional €10. Delegates are asked to email seminar@ireland.anglican.org to register interest and also to indicate whether lunch will be required. Car parking is available on site and directions are available here: http://bit.ly/2p6p52y

Schedule
9.00am – Registration
9.30am – Start
9.30–11.00am – Papers 1 & 2 (Professor Alan Ford & Miriam Moffitt)
11.00–11.30am – Coffee break
11.30am–12.00noon – Questions on Papers 1 & 2
12.00noon–12.40pm – Paper 3 (Professor Salvador Ryan)
12.40–12.55pm – Questions on Paper 3
12.55–1.00pm – Thanks and Close (The Revd Canon Dr Maurice Elliott, Director, CITI)
1.00pm – Lunch in Dining Room

Speaker biographies
Professor Alan Ford
Alan Ford is Emeritus Professor of Theology at the University of Nottingham and a leading expert on Irish history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with a particular interest in religious identity. He is author and editor of a number of books and articles, including The Church of Ireland and its Past: History, Interpretation and Identity (Dublin: Four Courts, 2017) (co–edited with Mark Empey and Miriam Moffitt), James Ussher: theology, history and politics in Early Modern Ireland and England (Oxford: OUP, 2007), The Origins of Sectarianism in Early Modern Ireland (Cambridge: CUP, 2005) (co–edited with John McCafferty, The Protestant Reformation in Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1997), and As by Law Established: The Church of Ireland Since the Reformation (Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1995) (co–edited with James McGuire and Kenneth Milne).
Dr Miriam Moffitt
Miriam Moffitt obtained a PhD in History from NUI Maynooth. She has also studied History and Church History at Queen’s University Belfast, the University of Wales, Lampeter, and the University of Nottingham. She teaches Church History in St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, and St Patrick’s College, Thurles. Her work focusses on the history of religion in Ireland, particularly the issue of how conceptions of identity and ethnicity have been influenced by the manner in which the religious history of Ireland has been written and interpreted.
Her publications include The Church of Ireland community of Killala& Achonry, 1870–1940 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1999), Soupers and Jumpers, the Protestant Missions in Connemara, 1848–1937 (London: Nonsuch Press, 2008), The Society for Irish Church Missions to the Roman Catholics, 1849–1950 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010), and Clanricarde’s Planters and Land Agitation in East Galway, 1886–1916 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011). She is co–editor, with Professor Alan Ford and Dr Mark Empey, of The Church of Ireland and Its Past: History, Interpretation and Identity (Four Courts Press, 2017).
Professor Salvador Ryan
Salvador Ryan is a native of Moneygall, County Offaly. He studied Nua–Ghaeilge and History at NUI Maynooth and Theology at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, and St Patrick’s College, Thurles. He completed his doctoral dissertation on ‘Popular religion in Gaelic Ireland, 1445–1645’ at the Department of History, NUI Maynooth, in 2003, and was based in the department as an IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellow from 2003 to 2005. From 2005 to 2008, he taught Church History at St Patrick’s College, Thurles, and was employed as Academic Coordinator at the college from 2006 to 2008 before returning to St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, as Professor of Ecclesiastical History in 2008.
He has published widely in the area of late medieval and early modern popular religion. Recent publications include (with Henning Laugerud) The Materiality of Devotion in Late Medieval Northern Europe: Images, Objects and Practices (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2016), (with Clodagh Tait) Religion and Politics in Urban Ireland, 1500–1750 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2016), Death and the Irish: a Miscellany (Dublin: Wordwell Books, 2016), and (with Declan Marmion and Gesa E. Thiessen) Remembering the Reformation: Martin Luther and Catholic Theology (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2017). His The Cultural Reception of the Bible: Explorations in Theology, Literature and the Arts (edited with Liam M Tracey) was published by Four Courts Press last autumn. He is currently guest–editing a special issue of the international peer–reviewed, open–access journal Religions which has as its theme Domestic Devotions in Medieval Europe: Encountering the Sacred in the Everyday.

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Canon George Ling’s title of his Lecture is ‘The re–imagination of Church’

Canon Dr George Lings is one of England’s leading missiologists and an expert on the development of Fresh Expressions in the UK context. Until recently he directed the Church Army Research Unit in Sheffield and has contributed to ground–breaking research on the contemporary state of the church. He is particularly identified with the Mission–shaped Church report and has visited Ireland on numerous occasions.

All are welcome to attend. Please contact janekelly@theologicalinstitute.ie to secure a booking.

The Mystery and the Problem of Judas;
The Mystery and the Problem of me:
Holy Week with a Difference in the Shadow of the Cross

A retreat led by The Rt Revd Michael Burrows,
Bishop of Cashel, Ferns and Ossory
15th–19th April 2019
Church of Ireland Theological Institute

The Church of Ireland Commission on Ministry invites you to journey through Holy Week with a central but under–explored player in the Passion drama – Judas Iscariot. Through addresses, daily worship, silence and contemplation, Bishop Michael Burrows will explore the mystery and problem of Judas. As the week continues, he will challenge us to ask how meeting Judas in a new way may also be an encounter with some unfamiliar aspects of ourselves.

This is a residential retreat, based at The Church of Ireland Theological Institute. It will begin with lunch on the Monday of Holy Week and end on the morning of Good Friday. Retreatants will have the option of attending the Good Friday liturgy at a local parish church, or at one of the Cathedrals in Dublin.

Some places will be available for non–resident participants who wish to join in the whole retreat programme, but commute from home each morning.

The cost of the retreat, including accommodation and all meals, will be €250.
The cost for non–resident participants will be €120.

For further information please contact Dr Bridget Nichols:
Email bridgetnichols@theologicalinstitute.ie
Telephone (00353) (1) 4997279

Click here to download flyer and booking form

The next lecture in the Featherstonehaugh Series 2018 is scheduled for the 14th November 2018 at 3pm at the Church of Ireland Theological Institute. All are welcome to attend.

The speaker is the  Revd Dr Andy Angel and title of his lecture is

“Negotiating the distance between missional aims and missional reality: Jesus’ own experience in John 4:1–42”.

Dr Andy Angel is currently the vicar of St Andrew’s, Burgess Hill in diocese of Chichester; having worked in theological education, most recently as Vice Principal of St John’s College, Nottingham; chair of SEAN International, a mission society working in theological education by extension in 100 countries; and he has been involved in a variety of church work from open youth work in the UK through to training church leaders in Brazil.

Bishop Cottrell has written widely on evangelism, spirituality and discipleship. Among his most recent books are a series of Lent and Holy Week meditations.

This lecture is free and open to the public.