Anglicanism in the Public Square Conference
Oct. 28-29, 2022
Christ Church Episcopal, Georgetown
3116 O St. NW, Washington, DC 20007
Only $60 ($30 for currently-enrolled students)
The John Wesley Institute is proud to host “Anglicanism in the Public Square,” a two-day conference open to the public that brings together an international group of scholars and public intellectuals to explore the public and social implications of Anglican history, theology, and ethics for the public square. The Anglican tradition, from Britain to the Americas, Africa and beyond, has inspired social movements and political figures for centuries.
From English and British monarchs driven by an Anglican vision, evangelical Anglican abolitionists, many of the founding fathers of the American republic, the social witness of Bishop Tutu, and bishops in the House of Lords today, Anglicanism has engaged the public square across the globe.
This conference will explore the question of what Anglicanism, historically and in the contemporary setting, brings to the public square, to the formation of just societies, and to the search for a common good. In an age of fragmentation and partisanship, the Church has a different narrative, a different approach to questions of common life and work. Join us as we explore what Anglicanism has to offer for dialogue, discourse, and disagreement in the public square.
Speakers
Jonathan Askonas
Assistant Professor of Politics, Catholic University of America
Nigel Biggar
Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, University of Oxford
Suzanne Geissler Bowles
Professor of History, Emeritus, William Paterson University
Jonathan Chaplin
Honorary Fellow, Wesley House, Cambridge, member of the University of Cambridge Divinity Faculty
David Corey
Professor of Political Science, Honors Program, Baylor University
Daniel Inman
Chancellor of Chichester Cathedral and Visiting Fellow, University of Chichester
Bradford Littlejohn
President, The Davenant Institute; Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center
Paul Marshall
Wilson Professor of Religious Freedom, Baylor University, Senior Fellow Religious Freedom Institute, Senior Fellow Hudson Institute
Hannah Matis
Associate Professor of Church History, Virginia Theological Seminary
Oliver O’Donovan
Professor Emeritus, Christian Ethics and Practical Theology, University of Edinburgh
J. Peter Pham
Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council
Former United States Special Envoy to the Sahel Region
Ephraim Radner
Professor of Historical Theology, Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto
Miles Smith IV
Lecturer in History, Hillsdale College
The Most Rev. Eliud Wabukala
Archbishop Emeritus of Kenya