The Protestant Spirit Conference

St Johns College, Oxford

23-25 September 2015

Wednesday 23 September 2015

1345-1400 Welcome and Introduction, Sarah Apetrei
1400-1510 - Plenary Session: Convenors Perspectives
Dimensions of Protestant Pneumatology, 1500-1900, Simeon Zahl
Histories of the Holy Spirit and the lessons of class history, Philip Lockley
New Seminar Room, Canterbury Quadrangle

1510-1530 Coffee (Dining Hall)

1530-1640 Panel Sessions
Panel 1: Pneumatology in the Early Reformation. Chair: Javier Garcia
Hierarchical Mediation vs. Spiritual Immediacy Perspectives on Peter Martyr Vermiglis
Political Theology, Silvianne Brki, Cambridge University
The Spirit of Pentecost? A Methodological Excursus Through a (Re-)Reading of Early
Reformational Pneumatology, Paul S. Baker, Charles Sturt University
New Seminar Room, Canterbury Quadrangle

Panel 2: English Radical Dissent and the Holy Spirit. Chair: Alison Searle
Miltons Pneumatology [title tbc], Jacob Israel Chilton, Johns Hopkins University
Three Methods of Quaker Worship in the Eighteenth Century, Jon Mitchell, University of
Leeds
Larkin Room, Thomas White Quadrangle

1640-1700 -

Break

1700-1830 -

First Keynote: The Many Appeals to the Spirit in the Sixteenth Century
Susan Schreiner, Chicago Divinity School
New Seminar Room, Canterbury Quadrangle

1845 for 1900 -

Drinks reception (St Giles House)

1930 -

Conference Dinner (St Giles House)

Thursday 24 September 2015

0900-1030

Second Keynote: The Catholic Spirit of Protestantism: The Third

Article, Visible Unity and Ecumenism
Tom Greggs, University of Aberdeen
New Seminar Room, Canterbury Quadrangle

1030-1100

Coffee (Dining Hall)

1100-1210

Panel Sessions

Panel 1: Word and Spirit in Reformation Biblical Interpretation. Chair:

The Experience of Faith : The Holy Spirits Mediation of Cognition and Affect in Calvins
Commentaries on Johns Gospel, Javier A. Garcia, Cambridge University
The Word(s) the Spirit Gives: Protestant Exegesis of 1 Cor. 2:13 and 12:8 from Bugenhagen
(1485-1558) to Bengel (1687-1752), Steven Edward Harris, Durham University
New Seminar Room, Canterbury Quadrangle

Panel 2: The Holy Spirit in Modern Protestant Theology. Chair: Ruth Jackson
The Beauty of the Spirit: Human Experience and the Role of Community in the
Pneumatologies of Jonathan Edwards and Josiah Royce, J. August Higgins, Oblate School
of Theology, San Antonio
Masking the Divine: Modern Protestantism and the Phenomenology of the Spirit, Jon
Mackenzie, University of Cambridge
Larkin Room, Thomas White Quadrangle

1230-1330 -

Lunch (Prestwich Room, Thomas White Quadrangle)

1330-1440 Panel Sessions

Panel 1: Controversy and spirituality in the Early Stuart Church. Chair: David Manning
The Spirit as Guarantor, Exemplar and License in the Equivocation Controversy, 1595
1642, Joshua Rodda, University of Nottingham
The Holy Spirit in Briget Cookes spirituall passages or a brief record of her heavenly
Life and Conversation, Alison Searle, University of Sydney
New Seminar Room, Canterbury Quadrangle

Panel 2: Mission and revival in Victorian Christianity. Chair: Philip Lockley

The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit and the Evangelical Magisterium in the late-Victorian
Church of England, Andrew Atherstone, University of Oxford
Instruments of Gods Purpose: Protestant Missionary Women and their representation in
Ireland, 1800-1900, Alannah Jeune, Queens University Belfast

Larkin Room, Thomas White Quadrangle

1440-1500 Coffee (Dining Hall)

1500-1610 Panel Sessions
Panel 1: Recovering patristic doctrines of the Spirit in early modern Britain. Chair:
Sarah Apetrei
Seeing is Believing? Towards a History of Spiritual Sight, David Manning, University of
Leicester
Unveiling the Holy Ghost in Beveridges Ecclesia Anglicana Ecclesia Catholica, Robert
Guy, University of Aberdeen
New Seminar Room, Canterbury Quadrangle

Panel 2: Ideas of spiritual renewal in nineteenth-century America. Chair: Andrew

Atherstone
Phoebe Palmer, perfection and Pentecostalism, Stephen Lennstrom, University of
Cambridge
Christian Science and the Holy Spirit, Jyoti Raghu, University of Oxford
Larkin Room, Thomas White Quadrangle

1630-1800 -

Final Keynote: The Word, the Spirit and the Holy Scripturian Whore in
Protestant History
Alec Ryrie, University of Durham
New Seminar Room, Canterbury Quadrangle

1800-1815 -

Break

1815-1900 -

Concluding discussion (New Seminar Room)

1930

Dinner at Bills restaurant, central Oxford

Friday 25 September 2015

Depart after breakfast