Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 9 April 2011
Visit of Prominent New Testament Scholar
The Church of Ireland Chaplaincy at TCD, the Church of Ireland Theological Institute and the TCD School of Religions and Theology are joint sponsors of a public lecture by the renowned New Testament scholar, Professor Richard Bauckham . Entitled ‘Jesus and the Eyewitnesses’ the lecture will be held in the Swift Lecture Theatre, Trinity College Dublin next Wednesday at 7.30pm. Admission is free and all are welcome.
Professor Bauckham, formerly Professor of New Testament studies in St Andrew’s University, is best known for his challenging thesis that, contrary to scholarly consensus, the four Gospels are closely based on the eyewitness testimony of those who knew Jesus. This was the central argument of his 2006 volume Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony and this will also be the focus of the public lecture.
Professor Bauckham is also one of the guest speakers at a seminar on atonement for the ordinands in the Church of Ireland Theological Institute next week. Permanent and occasional teaching staff of the Institute will also be joined by several academics from other Irish institutions - Professor Stephen Williams (Union Theological College) Dr Richard Clurtterbuck (Edgehill College), Dr Catriona Russell (TCD ) and Professor Vincent Twomey (Maynooth). From further afield will come Dr Elaine Storkey (formerly of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford) and Dr Robin Stockitt (Anglican Church in Freiburg).
One of the hallmarks of the new MTh programme for ministry formation is its emphasis on integration between the three major strands of student learning - biblical, theological, and ministerial. One of the ways that we this aim is realised in addition to integrative emphases in all the core modules, is through annual integrative seminars. This year’s seminar, focusing around the doctrine of the atonement, seeks to aid students into thinking about the implications of this doctrine for both ministry and the life of faith.
Today (Saturday) the Bishop of Cork will hold his Annual Confirmation Morning when confirmands will meet him and the Diocesan Youth Council for a morning of preparation and recreation. This evening in St Bartholomew’s Church, Dublin, at 8pm the Gaudete Singers will sing Frank Martin’s ‘Mass for Double Choir’ and Edward Rubbra’s ‘Tenebrae Motets’
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning the Dean of Leighlin, the Very Revd Tom Gordon, will lead a service of Morning Prayer which will be broadcast on RTE Radio 1, while on RTE television the Cashel & Ossory Youth Officer, Scott Evans will lead a reflection on youth ministry with the Diocesan Youth Ministry Team. The celebrations to mark the 250th anniversary of the foundation of Wilson’s Hospital School, Multyfarnham, will conclude with a special service at 2.30pm in the school’s 18th century chapel where the preacher will be a former pupil, the Revd Jonathan Pierce, Rector of Cregagh. At Evensong in St Macartin’s Cathedral, Enniskillen, the Diocese of Clogher will say its farewell to Bishop Michael Jackson who will shortly take up his duties as Archbishop of Dublin.
The Japanese Community in Dublin in association with Dublin City Council and St. Patrick’s Cathedral will hold an event to commemorate the victims of the Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami and to provide an opportunity for people to show Ireland’s solidarity with Japan. This will take place in St. Patrick’s next Monday at 7pm, and will take the form of a multi-denominational civic event with readings and music.
Next Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 1pm in St Ann’s Church, Dublin, the parish Dramatic Society will present’ Changling’ based on ‘One City, One Book’ novel, Ghost Light, by Joseph O’Connor.