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
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.]
- Current Biblical Criticism and Methodist Teaching
- Wesley Studies: What and How Did John Wesley Teach?
- Methodist Teaching and Social and Economic Issues of the Nineteenth Century
- Methodist Economic and Social Teachings and the Challenge of Liberation Theology
- Methodist Evangelism and Doctrine
- 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”
