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Society for Reformation Studies
14th Annual Conference
 11 April – 13 April 2007

Eirenicism in the Reformation

Westminster College, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0AA
Tel: + 44 (0) 1223 741084
Fax: + 44 (0) 1223 300765
E mail: admin@westminster.cam.ac.uk

Wednesday 11 April

14.00 – 15.30: Registration

15.30 – 16.15: Tea; Welcome; Conference Opening

16.15 – 17.15:  Keynote paper: Healey Room and Elias Library

Erika Rummel: ‘The Eirenicism of Erasmus’ (Chair: David Bagchi)

17.20 – 18.00: Parallel Sessions – I:

  • Healey Room Erik Ankerberg: ‘Johann Gerhard and George Herbert: the 'veiled' Lutheran and the irenic writer’  (Chair: Patrick Preston)

  • Elias Library Daniel Gaschick: ‘Georg Cassander: an Eirenic Theologian dealing with Anabaptists’ (Chair: Gerald Hobbs)

  • Cheshunt Room  Jason Harris: ‘The Pragmatics of Commitment: Bishop Torrentius & Antwerp-Cologne relations in the 1530s’ (Chair: Aza Goudriaan)

18.00 –19.30: Dinner

19.40 – 20.30: Parallel Sessions – II:

  • Healey Room Jack Cunningham: ‘The “Eirenicon” of James Ussher: An Irish Panacea for an English Problem’ (Chair: David Bagchi)

  • Elias Library Russell Dawn: ‘The Eucharistic theology of Richard Field: Confusion, Contradiction or Creative Synthesis?’ (Chair: Peter Stephens)

  • Cheshunt Room  Aaron Denlinger: "Certain 'grosse opinions of papists concerning originall sin': Disentangling Ambrogio Catarino's doctrine from Albert Pigge's." (Chair: Patrick Preston)

Thursday 12 April

07.45 – 08.45: Breakfast

09.00 – 10.00: Keynote paper: Healey Room and Elias Library

Alec Ryrie: 'The Saviour of English Catholicism'. (Chair: Ian Hazlett)

10.10 – 10.50: Parallel Sessions – III:

  • Healey Room Aya Elyada: ‘Language and Mission in Early Modern Protestant Thought and Practice’ (Chair: Peter Stephens)

  • Elias Library Gerald Hobbs: ‘Changing the way one does theology: Bucer's 1529 plea for irenicism’ (Chair: Ian Hazlett)

  • Cheshunt Room  David Gehring: ‘“Let vs geue to Luther a moderate interpretation”: English  Observations and Appreciations of the Lutheran Debates c.1560-80’. (Chair: Nick Thompson)

10.50 – 11.10: Coffee

11.10 – 11.50: Parallel Sessions – IV:

  • Healey Room Torrance Kirby: ‘The Parker Library MS of Peter Martyr Vermigli's Sermon "Sedition in Devon" (1549)’ (Chair: Malcolm Lovibond )

  • Elias Library Abigail Brundin: ‘Vittoria Colonna's 'rime spirituali': the poetry of evangelism’ (Chair: Charlotte Methuen)

  • Cheshunt Room Lane: ‘Article 5 of the Regensburg Colloquy’  (Chair: Nick Thompson)

11.50 – 12.30: Parallel. Sessions - V :,

  • Healey Room Peter Stephens ‘Confessing the Faith:  the starting point for Zwingli and Bullinger in their Confessions’ (Chair: Malcolm Lovibond)

  • Elias Library: Howard Foreman: "Renewal Rhetoric in Jean Raulin's Collatio" (Chair: Charlotte Methuen)

  • Cheshunt Room  Thomas Meyer: ‘Monkey in the Middle, or what to call the Spirituali’ (Chair: Patrick Preston)

12.45 – 13.45: Lunch

13.45 -  14.45: Keynote paper: Healey Room and Elias Library

Nick Thompson: ‘Irenical Reading Lists and the Commonwealth of Letters.’ (Chair: David Bagchi)

14.45-16.45: Either: (1) Free time or (2) Visit to the Library of Emmanuel College (See below at *).  The party will leave Westminster College at 15.00, and the Librarian, Dr Helen Carron, will introduce the Sancroft Collection to two groups 15.15-16.15.

16.45 – 18.15: Healey Room and Elias Library : AGM of the Society for Reformation Studies

18.30 – 20.30: Conference Dinner

20.30: Conference departs on foot for the Chapel of Gonville and Caius College.

21.00 – 22.00: Concert of music performed by the Choir of Gonville and Caius College conducted by Dr Geoffrey Webber

 Programme: Celebrating Dieterich Buxtehude (d. 1707)

Music to include Buxtehude's Der Herr ist mit mir (with strings), In te Domine speravi, Kyrie eleison (Missa brevis) & Mit Fried und Freud, and Schütz's Singet dem Herrn. 

Friday 13 April

07.45 – 08.45: Breakfast

09.00 – 0.940: Parallel sessions – VI:

  • Healey Room Gordon Jensen: ‘The Wittenberg Concord of 1536: Luther's Irenic Overture - temporary lapse or necessity?’  (Chair: David Bagchi)

  • Elias Library Christopher Joby: ‘Protestantism and Islam: Did the Reformers see an ally in Islam?’ (Chair: Ian Hazlett)

  • Cheshunt Room Ralph Werrell; ‘The possible influence of Erasmus on William Tyndale’ (Chair: Peter Stephens)

0.940 – 10.20: Parallel sessions – VII:

  • Healey Room Hyun-Ah Kim: ‘Educating “the filthy and trifling songs of drunken musicians”: Chorister Education in Tudor England’ (Chair: Gerald Hobbs)

  • Elias Library Malcolm Lovibond: ‘“A matter of indifferency”: A commentary on the initial Cheshire Classics meetings of 1691’ (Chair: Nick Thompson)

  • Cheshunt Room : Patrick O’Banion: ‘ Paschal Patterns:  Tracking Penitential Compliance during the Lenten Season in early Modern Castile’ (Chair: Patrick Preston)

10.30 – 11.00: Coffee

11.00 – 11.40; Parallel sessions – VIII:, 

  • Healey Room Seong Hwan Chang: ‘Reforming the way of death:  Erasmus and Calvin’ (Chair: Aza Goudriaan)

  • Elias Library Barbara Henze: ‘Georg Witzel's Eirenicism: theological presuppositions, political consequences’ (Chair: Charlotte Methuen)

  • Cheshunt Room Gregory Shulz: ‘Luther's Notion of Sorge: an "Afterthought" to a Social Neurological Study of Human Angst’ (Chair: Patrick Preston)

11.40 – 12.20: Parallel sessions – IX:

  • Healey Room Catherine Reuben: ‘From Meaux to Strasbourg: a journey in the French Reformation’ (Chair: Gerald Hobbs)

  • Elias Library Alexander Schmidt: ‘Patriotism and Eirenicism: The concept of a German Fatherland in sixteenth-century political discourse’ (Chair: Charlotte Methuen)

  • Cheshunt Room Aza Goudriaan: ‘Arminianism a form of Socinianism? The Confessional Distinctiveness of Early Dutch Arminianism’  (Chair: Ian Hazlett)

12.30 – 13.30: Lunch

14.00 – 14.40: Parallel sessions – X:

  • Healey Room Ian Hazlett: ‘The inner core of Bucer's irenical disposition’ (Chair: Malcolm Lovibond )

  • Elias Library Charlotte Methuen: ‘Katharina Schutz Zell as a defender of tolerance in Strasbourg’ (Chair: Aza Goudriaan)

  • Cheshunt Room Patrick Preston: ‘Eirenicism and the “Beneficio di Cristo”’ (Chair: Nick Thompson)

14.45-15.15:    Tea and departure

  • Library visit

Emmanuel College houses an important collection of books formerly belonging to Archbishop William Sancroft (1616-1693), Archbishop of Canterbury 1678-1691.  Owing to restrictions of space, this collection can only be seen by groups of 10 at a time.  The librarian has agreed to introduce the collection to two groups of 10, and will also make some materials available for inspection in another room. She will allow up to 30 members of the conference into the library.  The visit will therefore be available on a first come, first served basis, and a list on which you can sign up will be available from Wednesday 16.00.

  • We have a very full programme this year.  It will only work if the times of the sessions are strictly adhered to.  The parallel sessions last for 40 minutes each.  The papers read in these sessions must not last longer than 25 minutes.  There will be 10 minutes for questions.  The remaining 5 minutes are for the benefit of those who wish to move to hear a paper that will be given in a different room. 

 

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