Events – Anglican-Methodist Union Conference

On Thursday 29 November 2018 the Centre will host a conference exploring aspects of the Anglican-Methodist Union conversations from the 1960s until rejection by the Church of England in 1972. Subsequently, the conversations continued until the two churches signed a Covenant in 2002. The conference will exploit the rich archive collections relating to the discussions held at the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University.

The full programme is as follows:

Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History
Thursday 29 November 2018
ANGLICAN-METHODIST UNION CONVERSATIONS

Programme:

9.45 arrivals, coffee, welcome

10.00-10.45

Pippa Catterall, University of Westminster: Ambiguity and Ecumenism: Studied Ambiguity in the Anglican-Methodist Conversations

10.45-11.00 break

11.00-12.30

Robert Bates, Oxford Brookes University: Another Kirchenkampf? Episodes from the life of Franz Hildebrandt.

Peter Howson: hon fellow, Oxford Brookes University: Working Outside the Box: the Disappearing Official Interest in non-local Ministry

Claire Surry: A comparison of two ecumenical initiatives: Methodist Union, 1932 and the Anglican Methodist union conversations.

12.30-1.15 Lunch

1.15-2.45

Phillip Tovey, Diocese of Oxford: The Anglican Methodist Ordinal -its significance and influence

John Lenton, Wesley Historical Society: Analysing Participants and their actions in the Conversations

Jane Platt, Oxford Brookes University: Grass-roots religion and its part in the mid-twentieth-century opposition to Anglican-Methodist Union

2.45-3.15 tea

3.15-4.00

Paul Avis, ‘AMICUM -a report and assessment from a member’

4.00-5.00

Martin Wellings, Wesley Memorial Church: The National Liaison Committee

5.00

Close and conference publication