BISHOP GEOFFREY ROWELL Requiem aeternam dona eis.... It is with the deepest sadness that the Society has learned of the passing of Bishop Geoffrey who was, only months ago, to have given a paper at the Society's recent conference Anglicanism Catholic and Reformed. This would have been on the theme of the distinctive Anglican understandings of holiness and it was only with great reluctance that he withdraw, on account of the then early, but already acute, stages of the illness … [Read more...]
PBS News & Events
This page highlights current work as well as news of recent and coming events of the Society.
Our most recent major event was the PBS Conference 2017
Anglicanism Catholic and Reformed 1517-2017, Revisiting the Reformation Legacy
held at ST John's Episcopal Church Savannah from which Audio is available on this site and book form of the Proceedings is anticipated in due course.
http://www.pbsusa.org/2017/05/22/science-and-faith-at-the-pbs-conference-and-two-panel-discussions/#read
This was the first PBS Conference for many years and we are now beginning the planning process for the next one in 2018 and will announce the dates as soon as possible.
We are also planning to continue our occasional series of Colloquia we have already held these on Daily Prayer and Marriage and expect to be holding further ones soon on
The Liturgical Revision Process in the Episcopal Church, to be held in Dallas at the Church of the parish of the Incarnation
Teaching Anglicanism - Catechesis Now, to be held in Philadelphia
Apologetics, Science and Faith, to be held in the Washington DC area.
Board Members have also attended the recent Nashotah House Conference on the future of Anglicanism and been active overseas as contributing participants in the recent Pusey House Conference in Oxford on Knowing and Loving the Triune God, and Fr Edward Rix speaking, at the invitation of the Bishop of Western Tanganyika, to several thousand at a Youth Conference in Kasulu.
We have also launched further chapters of our volume for Catechesis by Society President Gavin Dunbar, I am His.
These chapters can be accessed via the links below
(and also our pbsusa.org website http://www.pbsusa.org/catechesis-project ) and we welcome feedback which can be taken into account in future editions of this work.
I am His Chapters now available :
I am His - Table of Contents & Introduction
I am His Part 1 - A Place To Belong
Audio of two further Sessions including Dr Arnold Klukas opening the Session on Liturgy Now at the PBS 2017 Conference
Recordings of two further sessions of the PBS Conference can be accessed below. In the first, Dr. Arnold Klukas, the recently retired Professor of Liturgy at Nashotah House, gives the lead presentation. He opened a discussion of the challenges facing the Anglican liturgical heritage if it is to preserve authentic continuity. He was joined in reflecting upon the different contexts of the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom by Fr Gavin Dunbar, Dr Jesse Billet and Fr. … [Read more...]
Audio of the Session on Science and Faith at the PBS Conference 2017
A recording of the Conference Session on Apologetics, Science and Faith addressed by Dr. Paul Julienne, the distinguished Physicist and the Society's lead blogger in this field, can be accessed below. He addressed the question: How should science and faith relate to one another? Dr. Paul S. Julienne … [Read more...]
Audio of Drs. Joan O’Donovan, George Westhaver and Jesse Billet, from the PBS Conference 2017
Audio recordings of the Papers given by three more of our principal speakers at the 2017 Conference can be accessed below: The Papers given were: The Public Authority of the Church in the Cranmerian Tradition, by Dr. Joan O’Donovan, University of Edinburgh Incarnational Reading: A Tractarian View of the Authority of Scripture by The Revd. Dr. George Westhaver, Principal of Pusey House, Oxford “The Holy Scriptures, or … [Read more...]
Audio of Professor Oliver O’Donovan and Fr Gavin Dunbar at the PBS Conference 2017
Recordings of two further Sessions at the PBS Conference of 2017 are now available below. They comprise Session II, Sanctification by Dr. Oliver O’ Donovan, Professor of Moral Theology, Edinburgh and formerly Regius Professor at Oxford and Session III The nature and future of the Reformation liturgy by The Revd. Fr. Gavin Dunbar, PBS President … [Read more...]
Audio of Professor Neil Robertson from the PBS Conference 2017 now available.
We are delighted to make further recordings of the main Sessions of our 2017 Conference available now and also wish to advise that a print edition with all the texts and summaries of the interlocutor discussions etc. will be made available in due course. By clicking on the virtual buttons below you will be able to hear the remarks of Dr. Neil Robertson Professor of Humanities, University of King’s College Halifax in SESSION IV, “It is required that you do awake your … [Read more...]
Father Gavin Dunbar PBS President Writes in the Living Church on Prayer Book Revision
The Article is online and in the current edition of the Print Edition of the Living Church http://livingchurch.org/covenant/2017/03/28/rediscover-the-gospel/ By Gavin Dunbar Editor’s note: This piece appears in the April 9 issue of The Living Church, as part of the Necessary or Expedient teaching series on prayer book revision. Mark Michael’s “Are we done with the ’79 prayer book?” is the well-known first piece in the series. Further essays in the series will appear here in … [Read more...]
Audio Content of PBS Conference Sessions now available
The Society is delighted to announce that we are now able to make available audio recordings of the presentations made in the main Sessions in our 2017 Conference Anglicanism Catholic and Reformed 1517-2017 We have had to address some technical challenges, but will be making these recording available online progressively and we start today with the opening lecture of Session I An Historical Overview of the Reformation Context Dr. Gillis Harp, Professor of History, Grove City College … [Read more...]
After Successful 2017 Conference, The Society Announces plans for another conference in 2018!
The Society was pleased to welcome well over one hundred participants to its 2017 Conference in Savannah. Such has been the positive response that the Board at its meeting on the last day of the Conference decided announce its intention to hold another conference next year in what it is hoped will become an annual event. Further details of the time will be announced later this year in good time to allow for plans to be made well in advance. Meanwhile, the Society looks forward to … [Read more...]
The PBS Anglicanism Conference begins on Thursday 16th
It is with growing anticipation that the Prayer Book Society looks forward to the conference opening in Savannah on the 16th Those wishing to come can still register at http://anglicanism-2017.brownpapertickets.com (And in the case of financial hardship please contact us) A new and updated schedule for the conference is set out below It is with deep regret that, on account of an acute episode of spinal pain, Bishop Geoffrey Rowell has had to cancel all his overseas … [Read more...]