Engaging Society: Reassessing Anglican Social Ethics
Monday 6th September 2010
The College of the Resurrection is delighted to be hosting a national conference, open to all, 6-8 September 2010, entitled "Engaging Society: Reassessing Anglican Social Ethics". The Conference Chair will be Stephen Platten, Bishop of Wakefield.
The recent publication of The Children Society’s report A Good Childhood has provided a contemporary example of an older approach to social issues in which faith communities interact with specialists in different field and arrive at policy recommendations which are general enough to receive widespread support while specific enough to make an impact on government and churches, who must work out the detail of how to put them into practice (in the past these policy recommendations have been called ‘middle axioms’).
This was the approach brought to prominence by William Temple in his highly influential Christianity and Social Order of 1942. It also found expression in Faith in the City, the influential report of 1985. The publication of A Good Childhood suggests that this approach still has mileage. Is this the case?
Main speakers
Short papers are invited. Please submit proposals to Stephen Spencer at Stephen@ymc.org.uk
The conference will start at 4pm on Monday 6th September, and will run to lunchtime on Wednesday 8th. Morning Prayer and Evening will be included in the programme, and a Eucharist on the morning of the final day.
The Cost will be £120 for the full conference.
To attend lectures and lunch and dinner will cost £60.
To attend lectures only will cost £30.
More information from Stephen Spencer at Stephen@ymc.org.uk
To book your place on the conference, please send:
- Name
- Email address
- Postal address
- Any special dietary needs
- and full conference fee (payable to ‘College of the Resurrection’)
to
Mrs Christina Haynes
College of the Resurrection
Stocks Bank Road
Mirfield
West Yorkshire WF14 OBW