All meetings are at the Cathedral Visitor Centre, beginning at 7.30 pm, unless otherwise specified.
Everyone is welcome. The annual membership of the Society remains at £10. This doesn’t cover the costs, but without some income from subscriptions we would certainly find it difficult to lay things on. So we are most grateful for your support.
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Manchester Theological Society 2008 – 2009
Please note: all the meetings this year are scheduled to take place in the Cathedral itself, rather than the Visitor Centre as hitherto. And all are scheduled to start at 19.00 hopefully so as to leave plenty of time before people need to catch trains etc. home. The ongoing work of the Theological Society depends on the financial support of its members. A contribution of £10 for the year would be much appreciated.
Tuesday, 23 September
Theo Hobson, ‘Sacramentalism and Authority, from Martin Luther to Rowan Williams’Theo Hobson is a campaigner for the reform of the Church of England – ‘perhaps the world’s most thankless task’, as it says in his Guardian profile. He’s the author of The Rhetorical Word: Protestant Theology and the Rhetoric of Authority (2002), Against Establishment: an Anglican Polemic (2003), and Anarchy, Church and Utopia: Rowan Williams on Church (2005). He styles himself a ‘post-Anglican’, meaning that ‘he cannot feel at ease in his native tradition, while it is so steeped in nostalgia – yet can see no better form of church to which to move’. Indeed, ‘for a few years now Theo has been trying to “come out” as a post-ecclesial Christian theologian. He says we have to reinvent this religion away from its institutional past. A truly postmodern theology will serve this end. So far, [however], so-called postmodern theology has been neo-orthodox, a highly erudite dead-end...’
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