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 making the addresses along with summaries of the interlocutor responses from the 2017 Conference available as soon as the technicalities allow.
Canon Alistair Macdonald-Radcliff
Conference Organiser
PBS USA International Advisor
The main sessions held during the conference were as follows:
Session I: An Historical Overview of the Reformation Context
Dr. Gillis Harp
Professor of History, Grove City College and PBS Board Member
Session II: Sanctification
The Revd. Dr. Oliver O’ Donovan,
Professor of Moral Theology Edinburgh and formerly of Oxford
Session III The Nature and Future of the Reformation liturgy
The Revd. Fr. Gavin Dunbar
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
SESSION V The Public Authority of the Church in the Cranmerian Tradition
SESSION VI Part 1
“The Holy Scriptures, or That Which Is Agreeable to the Same”:
The Scriptural Catholicity of the Prayer Book
Dr. Jesse Billett, Trinity College, University of Toronto
SESSION VI Part 2
Incarnational Reading: A Tractarian View of the Authority of Scripture
The Revd. Dr. George Westhaver, Principal of Pusey House, Oxford
SESSION VII Anglicanism catholic & reformed: Quo Vadis? A Panel Discussion
Dr. Roberta Bayer, The Revd. Dr. Oliver O’Donovan, Dr. Gillis Harp,
Dr. Neil Robertson, The Revd. Dr. George Westhaver.
Choral Evensong With Sermon by Professor Oliver O’Donovan (on Romans V)
Session VIII Apologetics Now, Science Faith and Contemporary Culture
Dr. Paul Julienne, Professor University of Maryland &
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) emeritus
Session IX Liturgy Now
American, English and Canadian Perspectives: Panel Discussion
The Revd Fr. Gavin Dunbar, The Revd. Dr. Arnold Klukas,
The Revd. Canon Alistair Macdonald-Radcliff, Dr. Jesse Billett.
Closing Conference Eucharist, With Sermon: The Revd. Dr. George Westhaver