The NEW CREATION

Christ Church, August 13 – August 22, 2002

Attendance: 213 members + 3 visitors

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Attendee List

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).”

Working Groups:

1. Biblical Studies
2. Wesley Studies and Early Methodism
3. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Wesleyan Traditions
4. Systematic Theology
5. Christian Mission and Globalization
6. Worship and Spirituality
7. Ecumenism and Evangelism
8. Ecclesiology and Discipleship
9. Practical Theology
10. 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)