The NEW CREATION
Christ Church, August 13 – August 22, 2002
Attendance: 213 members + 3 visitors
Pre-Conference for Third World persons at Christ Church
Keynote Speaker:
Randy L. Maddox
“Nurturing the New Creation: Reflections on a Wesleyan Trajectory”
Other Plenary Speakers:
Mvume Dandala
“Methodism’s Mission to Ecological Challenges in Africa”*
Manfred Marquardt
“The Kingdom of God in a Global Society”*
Néstor O. Míguez
“The Old Creation in the New, the New Creation in the Old” (Kirkpatrick Lecture)*
Mary Elizabeth Moore
“New Creation: Repentance, Reparation, and Reconciliation”*
Jong-Chun Park
“Christian Perfection and Confucian Sage Learning: An Interreligious Dialogue in the Crisis of Life”*
Russell E. Richey
“Methodism as New Creation: A Historical-Theological Enquiry”*
Josiah Young
“Those Who Belong to Christ and the ‘This-Worldly’ Character of the New Creation”*
Sermon: Klaiber, Walter F. “The New Creation (Revelation 21:1–8).”
- Biblical Studies
- Wesley Studies and Early Methodism
- Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Wesleyan Traditions
- Systematic Theology
- Christian Mission and Globalization
- Worship and Spirituality
- Ecumenism and Evangelism
- Ecclesiology and Discipleship
- Practical Theology
- Ethics, Contemporary Technologies, and the Integrity of Creation
Observers: Joseph Famérée (Roman Catholic), Mary Tanner (Anglican)
*Marked papers were published as proceedings of this Institute in:
Meeks, M. Douglas, ed. Wesleyan Perspectives on the New Creation. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2004. (The text of Meeks’s Introduction)
