Permanent and occasional teaching staff of the Institute will be joined next week by several visiting academics
Professor Bauckham, formerly Professor of New Testament studies in St Andrew’s University, is best known for his challenging thesis that, contrary to scholarly consensus, the four Gospels are closely based on the eyewitness testimony of those who knew Jesus. This was the central argument of his 2006 volume Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony. He is one of the guest speakers at a seminar on atonement for the ordinands in the Church of Ireland Theological Institute next week.
Academics from other Irish institutions include – Professor Stephen Williams (Union Theological College) Dr Richard Clutterbuck (Edgehill College), Dr Catriona Russell (TCD ) and Professor Vincent Twomey (Maynooth). From further afield will come Dr Elaine Storkey (formerly of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford) and Dr Robin Stockitt (Anglican Church in Freiburg).
One of the hallmarks of the new MTh programme for ministry formation is its emphasis on integration between the three major strands of student learning – biblical, theological, and ministerial. One of the ways that we this aim is realised in addition to integrative emphases in all the core modules, is through annual integrative seminars. This year’s seminar, focusing around the doctrine of the atonement, seeks to aid students into thinking about the implications of this doctrine for both ministry and the life of faith.
From Irish Times notes