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The Theological Conference
Report Series 1983-2019
$5.00 150th Anniversary of the Oxford Movement- The Way Forward
Please note: For the book on 'Christian Friendship', and the book on 'Christian Psychology', the price of $25 includes postage and handling. For all other books in the above list, postage and handling costs will be added to the price.
Retreat Address
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Common Prayer Commentaries
The St. George's Christian Education Curriculum
Year One--The Catechism
Year Two--The Church Year
Year Three--God's People in the Bible
Year Four--God's People Through the Ages
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This small book contains an English translation of the text of the Holy Eucharist in the Sarum Rite.
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Church Journal - Religious Newspaper: "The Anglican Planet".
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THE THEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE
REPORT SERIESAt these conferences distinguished speakers from all over the world have assembled to present their opinions on current Church issues from an orthodox Christian perspective. St. Peter Publications Inc. has made available the transcripts of their papers in the series detailed below.
Follow this link to learn more about the Atlantic Theological Conferences, and your opportunity to enjoy substantial theology in a faithful Christian fellowship!
Please note: The first Conference in the series was held in Charlottetown, PEI, in 1981. The topic was "The Need for a 'Catholic' Voice in the Church Today". The second Conference was held in St. John, New Brunswick, in 1982. The topic was "Christian Initiation". Unfortunately the books containing the papers presented at these first two conferences are no longer available, having been sold out, and out of print for a number of years.
150th Anniversary of the Oxford Movement - The Way Forward (1983)
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This small volume of 67 pages contains much solid meat. Canadian students will find interesting information about the origins of the Oxford Movement in the Maritimes. Dr. W.J. Hankey provides a masterly presentation on recent theological history and its problems, and suggests that the way forward would be a return to the Patristic mode of looking at the Scriptures. Bishop Terwilliger points the way forward by recalling the Church to its apostolic inheritance. Dr. R.D. Crouse points the way forward sacramentally. In addition, there are two fine sermons.
Church Polity and Authority (1984)
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Anyone interested in order and authority within the Anglican Church today should read this conference report. How can the "consensus fidelium" of the Church, as embodied in its official formularies, be reconciled with the concept of the "bishop in Synod", with the strong inclination to see bishops as chairmen or executive officers of a democratic synod, and the parish priest as a member of a parish corporation, with committees to decide matters of worship and "spirituality"?
The Prayer Book (1985)
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In this excellent report are papers on the Prayer Book in Theological and Historical Perspective, the Prayer Book and Devotional life, the use of Scripture in the Prayer Book Lectionary, the Prayer Book and pastoral work, as well as a paper on the Church in Sweden, and a sermon on Eucharistic doctrine in the Prayer Book. In a time of liturgical change, this is an important and valuable book.
Holy Living - Christian Morality Today (1986)
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Here is a noble attempt by a scholarly group of North American Christian leaders, to speak faithfully and cogently to the moral and ethical issues of our day and age. Faith is something to be lived. Moral theory is not enough; the Christian life must be lived. With articles by George & Sheila Grant, Robert Crouse, Philip E. Hughes and others, all thinking people will find much help in these 73 pages.
Rebuilding the House of God (1987)
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This volume is the result of two theological conferences, one at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, the other at Rosemont, Pennsylvania. The topic of these conferences was: "The Lambeth Quadrilateral", first adopted by the American House of Bishops in 1886, then by the Bishops of the Anglican Communion in 1888. At these conferences there was a sharing of opinions on the "contemporary dilemma" (Bishop Leonard) in the light of the secularization of the Church in the modern world.
The Scriptures and Modern Christian Teaching (1988)
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Anglicans have long been spoken of as the people of two books: the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. Article 6 of the Thirty-Nine Articles makes it quite clear how central the Holy Scriptures are to an Anglican understanding of the Catholic Faith. But questions are being raised today how are we to understand the Scriptures and how are we to teach them? Here are scholarly and thoughtful Christians providing answers. As Father John Pearce remarked: "The teaching of the New Testament is not achieved until it is assimilated into people's lives."
The Thirty-Nine Articles (1989)
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There was a time when every candidate for Holy Orders in the Canadian Church had to give sworn assent to the Thirty-Nine Articles before ordination. This is no longer required. Is this because, as Dr. Hankey suggests, those who hold power in the Anglican Church of Canada no longer hold "an Augustinian doctrine of sin and a Reformed doctrine of justification and grace"? In this book, reporting on a Theological Conference held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, strong supporters of the Thirty-Nine Articles are challenged by at least one Response. Well known evangelicals, The Rt. Rev'd C. FitzSimmons Allison, The Rev'd Dr. Philip Edgcumbe Hughes and the Rev'd Roger T. Beckwith all state their position. The Rev'd Dr. Robert Crouse presents the character and authority of the Thirty-Nine Articles. A church adrift would do well to look to its roots!
Atonement and Sacrifice: Doctrine and Worship (1990)
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How appropriate that this publication be dedicated to the memory of the late Dr. Philip Edgcumbe Hughes, scholar, author, teacher and stalwart evangelical. Well did he know the importance of Christian Teaching on Atonement and Sacrifice, both in Doctrine and in Worship! Drs. Rodney Whitacre, Wayne Hankey, and Robert Crouse all manifest great philosophical, biblical and theological scholarship. They have set forth their views in a lucid and helpful manner to all who heard them or read their papers. How good to have Australia Bishop Donald Cameron, and his contribution. The fifth major paper, by Dr. Gillian Evans of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, has to do with 19th and 20th century developments. The "Responds" provide good food for thought. Every bishop, priest, theological student and lay reader or thinker within the Church should obtain a copy of this Conference Report.
Replenish the Earth: the Christian Theology of Nature (1991)
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This collection of papers examines the Christian understanding of creation and nature as expressed in Holy Scripture, the classical theologians, Renaissance art, and contemporary writers. Here is help for Christians who want to find out something of the Christian teaching regarding the relationship between the human race and nature.
The Holy Spirit (1992)
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This Conference began on the Day of Pentecost, and reflected the mood of the papers on various aspects of The Holy Spirit. Presenters of papers at this conference were such eminent theologians as Dr. J.I. Packer, Dr. Peter Toon, Professor James M. Houston, Dr. R.D. Crouse, and Dr. Lawrence Osborn. Two sermons are also included in this volume, one preached by Dr. Packer and the other by The Rev'd. Fr. Titus Oates, S.S.C.
Tradition: Received and Handed On (1993)
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This Conference was held in the 100th Anniversary Year of the Solemn Declaration of the First General Synod of the Church of England in Canada. Members of this Synod declared themselves "determined by the help of God to hold and maintain the Doctrine, Sacraments and Discipline of Christ as the Lord hath commanded in his Holy Word, and as the Church of England hath received and set forth the same... and to transmit the same unimpaired to our posterity." The topics covered at this Conference were Scripture and Tradition, Tradition and Development of Doctrine; Tradition and Christian Worship; Tradition, Language and Christian Spirituality; Tradition and Christian Renewal. Also included in this volume are the responses to the papers, and two fine sermons preached during the Conference.
Redeeming the Time: The Church and the Challenge of Secularity (1994)
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This Conference addressed the critical relation between the sacred and the secular. Though the secular is in origin a Christian idea, there are many in society and church who have no sense of the sacred, and how it is related to the things of God. This important question was addressed in topics including the Image of God, Biblical Interpretation, Christian Freedom and Institutional Life, and Redeeming Secularity. A worthwhile resource for students and scholars alike!
The Idea of the Church in Historical Development (1995)
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The history of the Church is lived out in response to God's Word, and understood in theological principle. The discussion of this theme included papers by Dr. Paul Epstein, Dr. Robert Crouse, Dr. G. Richmond Bridge, Bishop Geoffrey Rowell, and Fr. Barry Craig. Topics included Spiritual Community, Patristic Perspectives, The Idea of the Church in the Elizabethan Settlement, and the Future Church. Also included are the excellent responses to these papers, and the Conference Sermon.
Christian Anthropology: The Understanding of the Nature of Man in Relation to Trinitarian Theology (1996)
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This book contains the collection of papers delivered at the Atlantic Theological Conference in Halifax, N.S., in June 1996. The book includes papers by The Rev'd Dr. William Ralston, Dr. Colin Starnes, The Rev'd Dr. Robert Crousse, Dr. Michael Treschow, and Dr. Dennis House. Papers include, "The Biblical Account of Humanity", "The Doctrine of Man in the Church Fathers", "The Doctrine of Man in Medieval Theology", "The Reformers and their Understanding of Man", and "Christian Anthropology: The Modern View of Man".
"Who do you say that I am?" The Person and Mission of Jesus Christ (1997)
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The eleven essays contained in this book were presented to the seventeenth Atlantic Theological Conference in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in the late spring of 1997. They are an attempt to set the contemporary Christological debate in its theological context by exploring the Biblical, Patristic, Medieval, Reformation and Modern ideas about the person and mission of Jesus Christ. Indeed, this volume offers modern Christians a chance to “refresh their memories with ideas about Jesus and his saving work which ought not to be regarded as dead facts in the dustbin of theology but as living ways of knowing both Jesus and ourselves” (from Anthony Bassett's The Present Challenge of Preaching Christ Crucified, p. 3).
"No Power but of God" Political Theology: The Christian's Relation to the State (1998)
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The papers contained in this book were presented to the eighteenth Atlantic Theological Conference in Charlottetown, P.E.I., in June of 1998. The topic of the conference was "Political Theology". The thought-provoking essays in this volume present to Christians of today an opportunity to examine the difficult and important questions of the Christian's relation to the State, which have faced the Church since the earliest days of Christianity. As the Rev'd Gavin Dunbar says, "In one respect, the coming of the Kingdom of God in Christ, on earth as it is in heaven, brings a long story to its close...Yet on the other hand, the coming of the Kingdom raises a whole host of new questions and opportunities, new challenges and problems. The question is not whether the Kingdom has come, but how that coming shall be understood, and what its implications are for the ordering of human life." (from No Power but of God p.17).
"Take thou authority..." The Theology of the Ordained Ministry in the Church Today. (1999)
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This book contains the collection of papers delivered at the Atlantic Theological Conference in Halifax, N.S., in June 1999. The book includes articles by the Rev'd Dr. Harry Robinson, The Rev'd Dr. Robert Crouse, The Rev'd Ronald Bagnall, and The Rev'd Dr. Peter Toon. The essays in this volume present to church members of the present day a thought-provoking look at the questions and controversies pertaining to this important subject. As the Rev'd Dr. Harry Robinson says, "The almost perpetual crisis in the theological understanding of the ordained ministry is the sacramental nature of that ministry. The outward and visible can so easily obscure the inward and spiritual, as the outward and visible marks of authority so easily hide the absence of the inward and spiritual authority."
"I am the Alpha and the Omega" Jesus for a New Millennium (2000)
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The papers contained in this book were presented to the Twentieth Atlantic Theological Conference, held in Fredericton, N.B., in June of 2000. The topic of the conference was Christian eschatology, and the conference had the title "I am the Alpha and the Omega"—Jesus for a New Millennium. Papers were presented by the Rev'd Dale Petley, Dr. Mary Elizabeth Smith, the Rev'd Dr. Robert Crouse, and others.
The essays in this volume present to church members of the present day a thought-provoking look at the questions and controversies pertaining to this important theological topic. As the Rev'd Dale Petley says, "One notes...the tension between what is already and what is not yet. For Christians the Christ has come...There is within the New Testament the proclamation of a victory that has already been, as well as an eschatological hope for a blessedness and ultimate victory yet to come. For Christian Apocalyptists the ultimate victory is the Kingdom of Heaven." (p. 19).
"The Journey Home" Sin and Grace (2001)
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The papers contained in this book were presented to the Twenty-first Atlantic Theological Conference, held in Charlottetown, P.E.I., in June of 2001. The topic of the conference was "The Journey Home: Sin and Grace". The essays in this volume present a thought-provoking look at the questions and controversies pertaining to the subject of sin and grace. As Dr. Paul Epstein says (page 1) "The developed Christian doctrine of sin and grace indicates in what way the divine freedom is comprehensive of human freedom... Tremendous disputes about this doctrine have arisen, involving the questions of free will and predestination, and dividing the various Christian communions and causing rifts within them." The Rev'd Gavin Dunbar says (page 80) "The very darkness of our sins is only known in its full extent because of the shining of the true light that is Christ. The centre of our preaching and our praying must be the 'tender love' of God towards man, manifested in the gift of his Son 'to suffer death upon the Cross for our redemption.'"
Providence: The Will of God in Human Affairs (2002)
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This conference explored the concept of divine providence: How are we to understand God's presence in history, and his eternal purposes being worked out in the fullness of time? As the Rev'd Stephen Andrews points out, "The question of whether the God who thus providentially rules is good arises naturally for human beings. But Christians point to the cross and resurrection of Christ as the resolution to that problem—not because these events reveal the good in every apparent evil, but because they offer the certainty that this will one day be seen. In the meantime, the providence of God means that believers endure trials in patience and hope, knowing that ‘all things work together for good to them that love God.' " (Romans 8.28).
Iconography: The Use of Art in Christian Worship (2003)
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This book contains the collection of papers delivered at the 23rd Annual Atlantic Theological Conference in Charlottetown, P.E.I. in June 2003. The book includes articles by Dr. Mary Elizabeth Smith, The Rev'd Dr. Robert Crouse, The Rev'd Dr. Thomas Curran, Dr. Paul Epstein, Mr. Peter Bryson, and Mr. Christopher Snook. This Conference explored the subject of Iconography and the use of art in Christian worship and devotion. Topics covered include 'Iconography in Early Christianity', 'Icons and Iconoclasm in the 8th Century', 'Chartres Cathedral—Supernatural Reality of the Here and Now', 'The Iconography of Christian Empire from Constantine to Frederick II' and 'Rembrandt & the Art of Painting in a Reformed Culture'.
Multiculturalism and Religious Freedom (2004)
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This book contains the collection of papers delivered at the Atlantic Theological Conference in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in June 2004. The book includes articles by The Rev'd Dr. Carsten Peter Thiede, Dr. Paul Epstein, Dr. Wayne Hankey, The Rev'd Dr. Thomas Curran, Dr. Floy Doull, and Archdeacon Patrick Curran. This conference considered the subject of multiculturalism and religious freedom—a topic which should be of great interest and concern in our world today. Several interesting and thought-provoking perspectives on this subject were presented. Dr. Floy Doull, in concluding her paper, said, "It follows from what has been said that the foundation for a knowledge of human freedom is the Trinitarian doctrine of the Christian religion. Although the grounds for this knowledge were present since the revelation of the Christian religion, it required the mediation of history and the emergence of Christian institutions for this knowledge to become our own. God's Trinitarian life as the foundation for our Trinitarian life, God's self-determination as the paradigm for our self-determination, was the source of seventeenth and eighteenth century doctrines of the equality of all men, their inalienable rights to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,' of a universal humanity which transcends differences of race, language, culture and creed."
Christian Friendship (2005)
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This book contains the collection of papers delivered at the 25th Annual Atlantic Theological Conference, held in Halifax, N. S., in June 2005. The book includes papers presented by Dr. Edith Humphrey, Dr. Gary McGonagill, Dr. Dennis House, Dr. Peter O'Brien, The Rev'd Dr. Robert Crouse, Dr. Paul Epstein, and The Rev'd Dr. Gary Thorne. This Conference explored the subject of Christian friendship. The papers presented include "God's Revelation and Re-creation, through Friendship", "Plato's Doctrine of Eros", "The Goddess of Love in the Poetry of Rome", "Love and Friendship in Medieval Theology", and "Friendship and the Good Life". The latter paper, by Dr. Thorne, considered the contemporary response to the notion of friendship, and looked at some of our contemporary dilemmas.
Reform and Renewal in Contemporary Christianity (2006)
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The papers delivered at the 26th Annual Atlantic Theological Conference are contained in this book. The conference was held in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, in June of 2006. The book includes papers presented by The Rev'd Dr. Robert Crouse, Dr. Neil Robertson, The Rev'd Father James Mallon, The Rev'd Dr. Thomas Curran, and Bishop Fitzsimons Allison. At the conference, these five speakers addressed the subject of reform and renewal in contemporary Christianity, exploring the topic from a number of perspectives. The papers presented include "The Idea of Reform in Christian Tradition", "Reformation as Renewal: The New and the Old in Luther", "Benedict and the Reform of the Reform", "Goethe's Werther: Reaction and Revision" and "Anglican Repentance: Renewing the Power to Love".
Justification and Sanctification (2007)
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The papers delivered at the 27th Annual Atlantic Theological Conference are contained in this book. The conference was held in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in May of 2007. The book includes papers presented by The Rev' Dr. Robert Crouse, Dr. Anthony Esolen, The Rev'd Dr. Roger Beckwith, Dr. Paul Epstein, and The Rev'd Dr. Peter Toon. At the conference, these five speakers addressed the subject of Justification and Sanctification, exploring the topic from a number of perspectives. The papers presented include "Justification and Sanctification in the Thought of St. Paul and St. Augustine", "Sanctification in Dante's Purgatorio", "A Reformation Account of Justification and Sanctification" and "Justification by Faith and Dynamic Equivalency: Pauline doctrine and the contemporary church". Within the opening pages of his paper, Dr. Robert Crouse poses questions with which the ensuing papers all in one way or another grapple: "Are we justified simply by God's merciful decree, in view of the infinite merit of Christ's sacrifice, or does our justification also imply some working of righteousness in our souls, whereby we freely co-operate in God's work for our salvation? In other words, is God's gift of justification simply declarative, or is it also creative? Is God's righteousness simply imparted to us for Christ's sake, or is his righteousness in some way imparted to us as we live in Christ? Are we merely accounted just, or are we actually made just? And are those really alternatives?" (page 1)
Christian Psychology: The Formation of Souls (2008)
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The topic of the 2008 Atlantic Theological Conference held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, was "Christian Psychology: The Formation of Souls". The thought-provoking papers given at that conference and included in this volume are offered in thanksgiving for the seminal and ongoing contribution to these conferences of The Rev'd Dr. Robert Crouse. His papers, and also his presence, have provided an abiding inspiration and encouragement to those in attendance over the years. Here we let him speak for himself: "Paradise is only possible if the soul is 'transhumanized'... only if if the intellect is enabled by faith to fix its vision upon the eternal Good; only if the will is strengthened by hope to pursue that Good; only if the powers of the soul are united in that eternal Charity, that divine 'amor' which moves the sun and the other stars." (page 120 of this volume).
Changing our Mind on Secularization: The Contemporary Debate about Sacred and Secular in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (2009)
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The 2009 Atlantic Theological Conference was held in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The topic was "Changing our Mind on Secularization". This conference explored the topic of the contemporary debate about sacred and secular in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The book includes all the papers that were presented at the conference, including papers by Dr. Wayne Hankey, The Rev'd Dr. Gary Thorne, Dr. Peter O'Brien, The Rev'd Dr. Thomas Curran, Mr. Peter Bryson, Dr. Alexander Treiger, Dr. Bruce Gordon, and Dr. Eli Diamond. 208 pages.
Knit together in one communion: Anglican Identity and the Challenge of Diversity (2010)
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The 2010 Atlantic Theological Conference was held in Moncton, New Brunswick. The topic was "Anglican Identity and the Challenge of Diversity". We hope that the papers presented at this conference will provide Anglicans with helpful background for grappling with some of the questions facing us within Anglicanism in our current day. The papers presented include the following topics: "Anglican Identity; A Retrospective Glance", "The Anglican Instruments of Communion: a Theological Approach", "Matters Essential and Indifferent in Sixteenth Century English Theology", "Let us thus think of the Trinity: Matters Essential and Matters Indifferent in Seventeenth Century English Theology", "Word and Books: A Discussion of the Importance of Education to Unity in Doctrine" and "The Prayer Book as Matrix of Unity".
Recognizing the Sacred in the Modern Secular: How the sacred is to be discovered in today's world (2011)
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The 2011 Atlantic Theological Conference was held in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The topic was "Recognizing the Sacred in the Modern Secular". This is a topic which should be of interest to Christians of the present day. The papers presented at the Conference and printed in this book include the following topics: "The Emergence of Modern Ascetism and Contemporary Christian Community", "The Sacred in Narrative and Fiction", "Challenges to Belief in the 21st Century", "Visio: The Method of Robert Crouse's Philosophical Theology", "Paradise Abides - Robert Crouse and the Preaching of the Sacred in the Modern Secular". This volume is dedicated to the memory of the late Rev'd Dr. Robert Crouse. 183 pages.
The New Atheism (2012)
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The 2012 Atlantic Theological Conference was held in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. (This was the 32nd annual conference). The topic was "The New Atheism". We hope that the papers presented at the conference and found in this volume will prove to be helpful in our understanding of Scripture, as well as providing a useful response to the arguments and assertions of the New Atheists. As Dr. Gary Thorne says in his paper: "The New Atheists challenge us to see the importance of our modern view of Scripture. Generally speaking, we have lost the hermeneutic that allows the Scripture to speak to us of the supernatural, and to transform our lives. We read the Bible in a one-dimensional, naturalistic and scientific way that either makes us Fundamentalists or causes us to reject the Bible as outdated and inadequate." 200 pages.
The Biblical Job: Comfort, Righteousness, Holiness (2013)
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The 2013 Atlantic Theological Conference was held in Fredericton, New Brunswick. (This was the 33rd annual conference). The topic was "The Biblical Job: Comfort, Righteousness, Holiness". Speakers at the conference included Dr. Thomas Curran, Dr. Neil Robertson, Father Christopher Snook, and The Rev'd Lisa Wang. The Book of Job raises many profound theological questions, which were addressed in the papers presented at this conference. We see the rain fall on the just as well as on the unjust, and we are troubled and wonder how this can happen under God's Providence. In his Response to Father Christopher Snook's paper, The Rev'd Dr. Brian Spence examines some of the important questions raised by a close reading of the Book of Job. He writes: "How can the Book of Job assist us in speaking to our contemporaries about suffering and belief in God? How might it inspire our pastoral practice? And finally, what kind of Christian faith and practice is meant to emerge from a decidedly Christian way of reading this book, as part of the Hebrew and Christian canons of the Bible?" 145 pages
The Meaning of Evil (2014)
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The 2014 Atlantic Theological Conference was held in Halifax at the University of King's College. (This was the 34th annual conference). "The Meaning of Evil" was the challenging theme being addressed in the papers that were presented. Speakers included Rev'd Dr. Brian Spence, Dr. Robert Kennedy, Dr. Matthew Robinson, Dr. Neil Robertson, and Dr. Daniel Brandes. Dr. Spence spoke on "Disobedience and Idolatry: The meaning of evil in the Bible". Dr. Kennedy spoke on "Augustine and the very possibility of evil". Dr. Robinson spoke about "Aquinas' account of the will's freedom in the De malo", Dr. Robertson's topic was "The Evil 'I': The transformation of evil in the Reformation and Enlightenment", and Dr. Brandes' paper was called "Unpunishable and/so Unforgivable: Hannah Arendt on Radical Evil". Other papers were presented as well, and also responses to the papers, all of which gave interesting and thought-provoking insights into this challenging subject.
The Outward Sense Befriending: The Beautiful, the True, and the Good (2015)
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The 2015 Atlantic Theological Conference was held in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, at St. Peter's Cathedral. (This was the 35th annual conference). The topic was "The Beautiful, the True, and the Good". Our speakers offered interesting and engaging papers and the discussion that followed the papers was particularly lively. As Dr. Anthony Esolen, one of our speakers so beautifully said, "...beauty is a grace, a free and freedom-making gift. Beauty in its being-beyond, in its splendid gratuity, directs our eyes and our hearts to the Giver of all good things and the Father of lights. It does so not merely that we may enjoy it, but that we may participate in it; the teacher shows us how to be beautiful ourselves".
The Church Visible and Invisible: "The Blessed Company of All Faithful People" (2016)
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The 2016 Atlantic Theological Conference was held in Sackville, New Brunswick, at St. Paul's Anglican Church. (This was the 36th annual conference). The topic was "The Church Visible and Invisible". We are grateful to our speakers for their interesting and thought-provoking papers and for the way in which they developed the theme as the conference progressed. As one of our speakers, Dr Roberta Barker, said, "If we believe with Aquinas that '[b]ecause all believers are one body, the good of one member is communicated to another,' then the 'blessed company of all faithful people' may share alike in the spiritual life of paradise, whether they seek it in pilgrimage on earth or enjoy it fully in the heavenly kingdom."
God Every Day and Everywhere (2017)
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The 2017 Atlantic Theological Conference was held at the University of King's College, Halifax, N.S. The title of the Conference was "God Every Day and Everywhere", and was held immediately following, and in conjunction with, a conference "Wisdom Belongs to God", sponsored by the Dalhousie Classics Department. Our speakers provided thought-provoking and engaging papers. The discussion following the papers was wide-ranging and lively. Papers presented at the conference included, "Aristotle's living God and its mortal limitations: incipiently Trinitarian?", "Augustine's Trinitarian Cosmos", and "Journalism and Theology: Our Recent Rediscovery of Islam". Near the end of his paper, one of the speakers, Dr. Wayne Hankey, said, "We started our journey by considering the Trinities Augustine explicates. Then, restarting from the bottom, we found the Trinitarian God everywhere and empowering our everyday existences. Our life and that of the cosmos is in God and by God. God is to be discerned, reverenced, and thanked everywhere". 238 pages.
Memory: Its Persistence and Loss in Christian Community (2018)
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The 2018 Atlantic Theological Conference was held at St. Paul’s Church, Sackville, New Brunswick. (This was the 38th annual conference). The title of the Conference was "Memory: Its Persistence and Loss in Christian Community". The papers presented by the speakers were interesting and timely and the discussion following the papers was wide-ranging and lively. Papers presented at the conference included "The Role of Memory in St. Augustine's Trinity", "Memory and Christian Living: Recollection and the Book of Common Prayer" and "The Loss of Memory and the Human Person: Caring for our Loved Ones with Dementia". The first speaker, The Rev'd Dr. Terence Kleven, in the opening paper about the Scriptural account of divine and human memory, had this to say: "How does one teach the assent to Christian truths unless we have a liturgy deeply rooted in the importance of memory and a liturgical calendar which infuses every day with patterns of actions and words to be remembered? We are shaped by the words of our Bibles and Prayer Books. Innovation and continual liturgical change will work against memory and perhaps it is intended to do so. We will never know a psalm if we are always saying alternative translations. Scriptural and liturgical texts will have to be in an English that is intellectually rigorous and rhythmic, thought and feeling at once, in order to be learned thoroughly and to sustain us from baptism to burial". 210 pages.
Upon this Rock: St. Peter in the Scriptures and Christian Tradition, and in the Life of the Church (2019)
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The 2019 Atlantic Theological Conference was held at St. Peter's Cathedral, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, June 26 - 29. (This was the 39th annual conference). The title of the Conference was "Upon this Rock: St. Peter in the Scriptures and Christian Tradition, and in the Life of the Church". The Conference was scheduled so as to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the founding of St. Peter's Cathedral. The papers presented included "St. Peter in the Scriptures and the Church Fathers", "The Faith of St. Peter in Richard Hooker's Lawes and Sermons", and "That they all may be one: Contributions of the Anglican Churches to Ecumenism". Speakers included Bishop Stephen Andrews, The Rev'd Canon Alyson Barnett-Cowan, and Professor Alan Hall. Bishop Anthony Burton preached a sermon (included in this book) which outlined the story of the founding of St. Peter's Cathedral in 1869, and the ongoing witness of that parish over the years until the present day. It took longer than usual to prepare this report for publication, due to the arrival of the COVID-19 virus and the ensuing worldwide pandemic which made many regular and routine tasks complicated or impossible. In his paper, Bishop Stephen Andrews reminds us that St. Peter "stands at the top of the list of the Eleven in the beginning of the post-resurrection account of the Church and he takes the initiative in setting the terms for the replacement of Judas as one of the Twelve. His authority also covers the area of church discipline..." "…and perhaps most significantly Peter receives direct revelation from God" which guides his ministry. 186 pages.
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Images of Pilgrimage: Paradise and Wilderness in Christian Spirituality
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An Act of Faith: The Founding of St. Peter's Cathedral
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