The SIGNIFICANCE of METHODIST TEACHING and PRACTICE for CONFESSING the APOSTOLIC FAITH

Somerville and St Hugh’s Colleges, July 27 – August 6, 1987

Attendance: 177 members + 5 visitors

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Attendee List

Introduction: Brian E. Beck
“Prospects for Methodist Teaching and Confessing”*

Keynote Speaker:

Albert C. Outler
“Methodists in Search of Consensus”*

Other Plenary Speakers:

C. Kingsley Barrett
“Righteousness and Justification”*

Günther Gassmann
“Toward the Common Expression of the Apostolic Faith Today”*

Adrian Hastings
“Pluralism: The Relation of Theology to Religious Studies”*

M. Douglas Meeks
“Reflections and Open Tasks”*

José Míguez-Bonino
“Reflections on the Church’s Authoritative Teaching on Social Questions”*

Mercy Amba Oduyoye
“Teaching Authoritatively amidst Christian Pluralism in Africa”*

Geoffrey Wainwright
“Methodism and the Apostolic Faith”*

John Walsh
“John Wesley and the Poor” [published in Revue Franςaise de Civilisation Britannique 6.3 (Nov. 1991): 17-30.]

Working Groups:

1. Current Biblical Criticism and Methodist Teaching
2. Wesley Studies: What and How Did John Wesley Teach?
3. Methodist Teaching and Social and Economic Issues of the Nineteenth Century
4. Methodist Economic and Social Teachings and the Challenge of Liberation Theology
5. Methodist Evangelism and Doctrine
6. Contemporary Methodist Theology and Doctrinal Consensus

Observers: Günther Gassmann (World Council of Churches), Michael Jackson (Roman Catholic), Gillian Evans (Anglican), Brenda Stephenson (Reformed)

*Marked papers were published as proceedings of this Institute in:
Meeks, M. Douglas, ed. What Should Methodists Teach? Wesleyan Tradition and Modern Diversity. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990.
(The text of Meeks’s Introduction)

Paper from Working Group 5 also included in published proceedings:

Gillian R. Evans
“Consensus and Reception”