Moore Theological College

School of Theology

Marcus Loane Hall

13 and 14 September 2017

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Program

Day 1 – Wednesday 13 September – Important Players8:50 Registration and Coffee

9:05 Welcome and Prayer

9:10 Why the Reformation still matters

Gerald Bray

9:40 Philip Melanchthon: The Humanist Whose Loci Communes Systematised Lutheran Theology

Dean Zweck

10:40 Morning Tea

11:10 Salvation Accomplished: Heinrich Bullinger on the Gospel

Martin Foord

12:10 Lunch

1:30 Thomas Cranmer: The Reformation in Liturgy

Tim Patrick

2:30 Katherine Zell: The Varied Ministries of One Reformation Woman

Jane Tooher

3:30 Adjourn

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Day 2 – Thursday 14 September – Theology and Legacy9:15 Coffee

9:30 Luther and the Bible

Mark Thompson

10:30 BOOK LAUNCH – Celebrating the Reformation

10:40 Morning Tea

11:10 The Reformation a Century Later: Did the Reformation Get Lost Two Generations Later?

Andrew Leslie Marcus Loane Hall

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Semper Reformanda: The Revivalists and the Reformers

Rhys Bezzant Lukyn Williams Room

12:10 Lunch

1:30 The Reformation: A Victorian View

Ed Loane Marcus Loane Hall

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Always Reforming? Reformation and Revolution in the Age of Romance

David Höhne Lukyn Williams Room

2:30 Discipleship in All of Life: The Reformers and Christian Ethics

Andrew Bain

3:30 Close

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Why the Reformation Still Matters

– Gerald Bray

Its social and political legacy

1. The break-up of Western Christendom

2. The creation of a new social order

Its theological legacy

1. The importance of the individual

2. A level playing field

The challenge we face today

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Philip Melanchthon: The Humanist Whose Loci Communes Systematised Lutheran Theology

– Dean Zweck

Melanchthon: enigmatic reformer

Melanchthon: humanist and theologian

Melanchthon and the Loci Communes: systematising Luther’s evangelical theology

Melanchthon’s legacy: the Loci as foundation for the systematic theology of Lutheran Orthodoxy

Conclusion

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Salvation Accomplished: Heinrich Bullinger on the Gospel

– Martin Foord

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Thomas Cranmer: The Reformation in Liturgy

– Tim Patrick

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Katherine Zell: The Varied Ministries of One Reformation Woman

– Jane Tooher

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Luther and the Bible

– Mark Thompson

1. The Centre pf the Reformation

2. Luther: the captive of the Bible

3. Luther: the translator of the Bible

4. Luther the interpreter of the Bible

5. Luther the preacher of the Bible

6. Luther the student and not the master of the Bible

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The Reformation a Century Later: Did the Reformation Get Lost Two Generations Later?

– Andrew Leslie

I. A question with a vexed history

II. The Protestant Scripture principle restated: Petrus van Mastricht (1630-1706)

III. Discerning the authority of scripture

IV. Reason and the interpretation of scripture

V. Conclusion

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Semper Reformanda: The Revivalists and the Reformers

– Rhys Bezzant

1. The Revivalists’ eighteenth century agenda: The Power of Godliness

2. John Wesley: Confessional Protestant

3. Jonathan Edwards: Eschatological Protestant

4. George Whitefield: Populist Protestant

5. Continuing the Reformation: Reevangelising the laity

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The Reformation: A Victorian View

– Ed Loane

Early Nineteenth Century Milieu

Repudiating the Reformation

Revering the Reformation

Conclusions

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Always Reforming? Reformation and Revolution in the Age of Romance

– David Höhne

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Discipleship in All of Life: The Reformers and Christian Ethics

– Andrew Bain

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