Society for Reformation Studies
8th
Annual Conference, 17-20 April 2001
at Westminster College, Cambridge
The
Reformation and the Bible
and
Martin Bucer: 450 Years On
Tuesday, 17 April 2001
14.00 Registration at Westminster College, Cambridge
16.00 Tea in the Common Room
Session
1
Healey Room and Elias Library. Chair: Paul Ayris
16.45
Jeff Leininger: Evangelical 'Enterluders': Patronage and Playing in Reformation
England
17.30 Catherine Reuben: 'Aestibus at mediis, umbrosam exquirere vallem':
how Clément Marot used Martin Bucer (Aretius Felinus) in his translation
of the Psalms
18.15 Session ends
18.30 Dinner
Session 2: Parallel sessions
Healey Room. Chair: Catherine Reuben
19.45
Peter Stephens: Bullinger and the Anabaptists with reference to his Von
dem unverschämten Frevel (1531) and Zwingli's writings on the Anabaptists
20.30 Peter Ackroyd: John Hooper, Peter Martyr and the fracturing of consensus
21.15 Session ends
Elias Library. Chair: Gordon Jeanes
19.45
Greg Graybill: Philipp Melanchthon on Predestination
20.30 Patrick Preston: Ambrosius Catharinus's Commentary on the General
Epsitle of St Jude
21.15 Session ends
Wednesday 18 April 2001
08.00 Breakfast
Session
3
Healey Room and Elias Library. Chair: Patrick Preston
09.30
Gwenette Robertson: The influence of Negative Theology on the poem Les
Prisons by Marguerite of Navarre
10.15 Elizabeth Jones: Penetential Bookends: A comparison of the treatment
of Psalm 6 by Bishop John Fisher and Thomas Sternhold
11.00 Coffee
Session
4
Healey Room and Elias Library. Chair: Charlotte Methuen
11.30
David Wright: Justifying Infant Baptism: Reformers' use of the Bible
12.15 Helen Parish: 'Lying Histories Fayning False Miracles': Magic, Miracles
and Medieval History in Reformation Polemic
13.00 Lunch
14.00
Conference to visit Latimer's pulpit and the church of St Edward; a collecion
of Reformation writings by Martin Bucer in The Parker Library, Corpus
Christi College, Cambridge, and the church of Great St Mary, Cambridge.
Tour Leaders: Paul Ayris and Scott Amos
19.30 Conference Dinner at Westminster College, Cambridge
Thursday, 19 April 2001
08.00 Breakfast
Session
5
Healey Room and Elias Library. Chair: Helen Parish
09.30
Scott Amos: The Alsatian among the Athenians: Martin Bucer, Mid-Tudor
Cambridge and the Edwardian Reformation
10.15 Charlotte Methuen: The use of the Bible in preaching in the 1570s
11.00 Coffee
Session 6
Healey Room and Elias Library. Chair: Peter Stephens
11.30
Willem van't Spijker: Bucer's doctrinal legacy as formulated in his last
three wills and testaments
12.15 Amy Burnett: Bucer and the Church Fathers in the Cologne Reformation
13.00 Lunch
Session 7: Parallel sessions
Healey Room. Chair: Scott Amos
14.00
Gerald Hobbs: The Reformer & the Royal Seer: David in Bucer's interpretation
of the Psalms
14.45 Tony Lane: Justified by Worthless Works? Another look at Calvin's
doctrine
Elias Library. Chair: David Bagchi
14.00
Ian Hazlett: Was Bucer an Aerian?
14.45 Anne Overell: A Nicodemite's Progress: Edward Courtenay's Religious
Positions, 1548-1556
15.30 Tea
Session
8
Healey Room and Elias Library. Chair: Ian Hazlett
16.00
Hermann Selderhuis: Vera Theologia scientia est: Bucer and the training
of ministers
16.45 Gottfried Seebass: Bucer's views on ecclesiastical patrimony in
the light of civil and canon law
18.15 Dinner
20.0 Concert by members of the choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, in Caius College Chapel
Friday 20 April 2001
08.00 Breakfast
Session
9
Healey Room and Elias Library. Chair: David Wright
09.30
Stephen Buckwalter: Martin Bucer's Deutsche Schriften: current work, future
projects
10.15 Martin Greschat: Essential features of Bucer's theology: fresh considerations
11.00 Coffee
Session 10
Healey Room and Elias Library. Chair: Gotthelf Wiedermann
11.30
Gustav Koch: La vie chrétien à la lumière du 'Summary'
of Martin Bucer, 1532
12.15 Andreas Puchta : Aspects of Bucer's thought with particular reference
to his correspondence of 1530
13.00 Lunch
14.00 AGM of the Society for Reformation Studies
14.30 Departures
Attenders
- Ackroyd, Peter London
- Amos, Scott St Andrews University
- Ayris, Paul UCL (University College London)
- Bagchi, David University of Hull
- Bombaros, John University of Cambridge
- Buckwalter, Stephen Bucer-Forschungsstelle, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- Burnett, Amy University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
- Cannell, Gill Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
- Edwards,
Elizabeth St Edward's Church, Cambridge
- Frost, Ron Multnomah Biblical Seminary, USA
- Graybill, Greg Wycliffe Hall, Oxford
- Greschat, Martin University of Münster, Germany
- Greschat, Mrs Martin Münster, Germany
- Hazlett, Ian University of Glasgow
- Hobbs,
Gerald Vancouver School of Theology, Canada
- Jeanes, Gordon London
- Jones, Elizabeth Vancouver School of Theology, Canada
- Koch, Gustav Wasselonne, France
- Lane,
Tony London Bible College
- Leininger, Jeff University of Cambridge
- Lovibond, Malcolm Wilmslow
- Mayor,
Stephen Westminster College, Cambridge
- Methuen, Charlotte Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany
- Moore, Jonathan University of Cambridge
- Morgan, Jonathan Dr Williams Library, London
- Mullett, John University of Cambridge
- Nichols, Bridget Ely
- Overell, Anne Leeds
- Parish, Helen University of Reading
- Peters,
Robert Monkfield College
- Preston, Patrick University College Chichester
- Puchta, Andreas University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
- Quinton, Stephen Norwich
- Reuben, Catherine Kingston University
- Robertson, Gwenette University of Chicago, USA
- Seebass, Gottfried Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany
- Selderhuis, Herman Theological University, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
- Selwyn, David University of Wales, Lampeter
- Selwyn, Pamela University of Wales, Lampeter
- Stephens, Peter Exeter
- Tomlin, Graham Wycliffe Hall, Oxford
- Tweedie, David London
- Van't Spijker, Willem Theological University, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
- Venuat, Monique Université Clermont 2 Blaise Pascal, France
- Webber, Geoffrey Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
- Werell, Ralph Kenilworth
- Wiedermann, Gotthelf University of Cambridge
- Wright, David University of Edinburgh
(48 attenders)
Society for Reformation Studies
The Society for Reformation Studies is extremely grateful to The British
Academy, without whose generosity the Society's 8th Annual Conference
would not have been possible.
Annual
General Meeting
The Annual General Meeting of the Society has been timetabled at the end
of the Conference and the Agenda is given below. The Treasurer, Dr Carl
Trueman, has announced his wish to stand down. It is proposed to combine
the role of Treasurer with that of Secretary for the next twelve months.
Nominations for the posts of Chairman and Secretary, duly seconded, should
be given to the present Secretary by 21.00 on the evening of 18 April.
Society for Reformation Studies
Annual General Meeting
20 April 2001 at 14.00
1.
Election of the Chairman and Secretary
2. Report on the Society's finances, including the setting of the subscription
level for 2002
3. Reformation & Renaissance Review
4. Date and theme of the Conferencein 2002. The proposed date is 3-5
April 2002 (Easter Day is 31/3/2002). The proposed theme is The Reformation
and the Arts
5. Any Other Business
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