Past Events
Introduction to Theological Action Research Day Workshop
Friday 2 March 2012
Ecclesiology in Practice: Disclosures of Church
19th November 2011
Conference in association with OxCEPT, Ripon College Cuddesdon
‘Talking about God in Practice: Theological Action Research and Practical Theology'
19th January 2011, Heythrop College
Book Launch - download further information here.
Dr Helen Cameron and Dr Clare Watkins
'"Being surprised by God” Embodied ecclesiology in local contexts’
Embodied Ecclesiology Conference, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 21-24th June, 2010
Dr Helen Cameron and Ms Catherine Duce
‘Talking about God in Practice: contributions to the discipline of Practical Theology from the ARCS project’
The British and Irish Association of Practical Theology, Ireland 13-15th July 2010
Dr Jim Sweeney
'Newman's Notional and Real Assent and Espoused and Operant Theology - a comparison'
Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain
Annual Conference - The Theology of John Henry Newman - 6th-9th September 2010
Dr Jim Sweeney
‘The Global City - A New Opening for Faith?’
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Annual Conference, Baltimore, USA - 29th-31st October 2010
Turning tourists into visitors and visitors into pilgrims: the mission of Westminster Abbey in the 21st Century"
The Revd Jane hedges, Canon of Westminsiter
Thursday, 18th March, 6.30pm
Faithful Politics? Churches and Broad-Based Community Organising.
Dr Luke Bretherton, Kings College London
Thursday, 20th May 6.30pm
Is social mercy as important as social justice?
Dr Terry Veling, Head of the McAuley School of Theology, Australian Catholic University, Brisbane and a Visiting Professor of Practical Theology at St. Thomas University, Miami.
Thursday, 22nd October, 6.30pm
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'Homelessness: Theology on the Road'
Alison Gelder, Chief Executive, Housing Justice
Wednesday, 3rd June, 6.30pm
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'Sources of the Sacred: Migration and Religious Identity in the Global City'
Dr Alana Harris, British Academy Post-Doctoral Researcher and Hardie Research Fellow, Lincoln College, University of Oxford
Thursday, 12th March, 6.30pm
Evangelisation and Education
Professor John Sullivan, Professor of Christian Education, Liverpool Hope University
Thursday, 29th May 2008
Church and Consumerism - Who is the Evangeliser?
Dr. James Sweeney CP, Director of ARCS, Heythrop College
Wednesday, 12th March 2008
‘Missing from the table: Why Adult Catholics Stop Going to Mass’
Mr. Bob Dixon, Pastoral Projects Office of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference
12th December 2007
‘Christianity in the Global City: the challenge for London's Churches’
ARCS Launch Lecture
Dr. Helen Cameron, Director, OxCEPT, Ripon College Cuddesdon
10th May 2007
Forthcoming conference papers:
Dr. Jim Sweeney & Dr. Clare Watkins
‘Sacraments and mission in Paul and in contemporary practices’
Catholic Theological Association Conference, Ushaw College, Durham,
7-10th September 2009.
Dr Helen Cameron & Dr. Clare Watkins
Title: TBC
Ecclesiology and Ethnography Conference, Aberdeen, 22-24th March, 2010.
Previous conference papers:
Dr Clare Watkins
'Sacraments and Mission: gift, burden, risk and calling'. Delivered at the Faith and Culture Symposium at the offices of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales. The gathering was organised by the Catholic Agency To Support Evangelisation (CASE). For more information about the work of Evangelisation at the Bishops' Conference please contact the Home Mission Desk on 020 7901 4863; email: clare.ward@cbcew.org.uk. Paper copyright: CBCEW 2009.
5th October, 2009
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Dr Helen Cameron.
‘Talking of God in Practice: Reflections upon data from the ARCS Project’.
British and Irish Association for Practical Theology, Ushaw College, Durham,
14–16th July 2009.
Dr. Jim Sweeney CP,
‘A theological kind of knowing’
British Sociology of Religion conference, St Chad’s College, Durham,
30–1st April 2009.
Dr. Clare Watkins
‘Living Church: Practical theology as a locus for ecumenical learning.’
Receptive Ecumenism Conference, Ushaw College, Durham, 11-15th January 2009.
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Ms Catherine Duce
‘The messy ‘surprises’ of fieldwork: engaging London’s religious institutions in cross-disciplinary action research.’
Religionising Fieldwork and Fieldworking Religion Conference, SOAS, University of London, 3-4th November 2008.
Dr. Helen Cameron and Dr. Clare Watkins
‘What Counts as Theology?’
Ecclesiology and Ethnography Conference, Regent’s Park College, Oxford,
10-12th September, 2008.
Dr James Sweeney CP
‘Keeping Research Theological’
Ms Deborah Bhatti
‘Researching Theological Contexts – a Grounded Theory approach’
Dr Clare Watkins
‘Texts and practices: the centrality of an ecclesiology of 'tradition' for pastoral/practical theology’
Theology for Church & Society: Developing Resources. An international conference on Pastoral & Practical Theology organised by ARCS in collaboration with Heythrop’s Pastoral & Social Studies Department, 23-25th November 2007.
