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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