The Following draft program for the coming conference has been announced (though it remains subject to change):
Thursday 16th February
12.15 Introductions and overview of the conference (in St John’s Church)
The Revd. Fr. Gavin Dunbar, President of the Prayer Book Society USA, The Revd. Canon Alistair Macdonald-Radcliff, PBS
12.30 Opening Session
Toward an Historical Understanding of Anglican Identity
Dr. Gillis Harp, Professor of History, Grove City College and PBS Board Member
14.15 Session II, Sanctification
Dr. Oliver O’ Donovan, Professor of Moral Theology, Edinburgh and formerly Oxford
16.00 Tea
16.30 Session III The nature and future of the Reformation liturgy
The Revd. Fr. Gavin Dunbar, PBS President
18.00 Said Evening Prayer
18.30 Conference Reception (for Registered Participants)
Friday 17th February
8.00 Said Eucharist (Chapel)
8.30 Light Breakfast (Cranmer Hall)
9.00 SESSION IV, “It is required that you do awake your faith*”
The Elizabethan Settlement and the Drama of a Catholic Reformation:
(*The Winter’s Tale, V.3 ll.94-5)
Dr. Neil Robertson Professor of Humanities, University of King’s College Halifax
10.45 Coffee
11.15 SESSION V The Public Authority of the Church in the Cranmerian Tradition,
Dr. Joan O’Donovan, University of Edinburgh
13.00 Luncheon break
13.45 SESSION VI The Anglican Quest for Holiness
The Rt. Revd. Dr. Geoffrey Rowell, Anglican Bishop in Europe (retired) and former
Chaplain of Keble College Oxford
15.30 Tea
16.00 SESSION VII Anglicanism catholic & reformed: Quo Vadis?
Panel Discussion Chaired by William Murchison,
Radford Distinguished Professor of Journalism Emeritus, Baylor University,
With all the earlier Session speakers Dr Oliver O’Donovan, Dr. Joan O’Donovan,
Bishop Geoffrey Rowell, Dr Gillis Harp, Dr Neil Robertson et al.
17.30 Choral Evensong
With Sermon by Professor Oliver O’Donovan
Saturday 18th February
8.00 Eucharist (Chapel)
8.30 Light Breakfast in Cranmer Hall
9.00 Session VIII Apologetics Now, Science Faith and Contemporary Culture
Dr Paul Julienne, Adjunct Professor University of Maryland and of the NIST Emeritus
(The National Institute of Standards and Technology, Specialist in Atomic, Molecular,
and Optical Physics, and ultracold matter) and leader of the PBS Blog on Science and Faith
10.30 Working Coffee break with Short Presentations and Overviews of Research Work in Progress
Private Judgement, institutionally mediated truth
and the contemporary crisis of the Conscience, Canon A. Macdonald-Radcliff
New Institutions for Conveying Classical Truths, Dr, Stephen Blackwood.
11.00 Session IX Liturgy Now: New Anglican Prayer Books
and the Coming Liturgical Reform in the Episcopal Church
Dr. Jesse Billett, Trinity College, University of Toronto and The Revd. Dr. Arnold Klukas Professor Emeritus Nashotah House.
Bishop Geoffrey Rowell and others
12.30 Closing Conference Eucharist with Sermon