Programme

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Keynote Speakers:

  • Stanley Hauerwas - Justice and the Promised People of Israel
  • Timothy Gorringe - Idolatry and Redemption: Biblical Perspectives on Economics. The Fundamental Questions of Economics Through an Exegesis of 1 Kings 18-20 and Leviticus 25
  • John Rogerson - The Hebrew Bible and the Environment

Conference Papers:

  • Rob Barrett (Durham) - Understanding YHWH's Threats Through Modern Politics, and Vice Versa
  • Paula Clifford (Christian Aid) - Fueling Our Carbon Habit: Climate Change and Justice For the Poor
  • James Crossley (Sheffield) - Caesar’s Willing Theologians: "Just War" Theory and the Art of Justifying the Unjustifiable
  • Matthew J.M. Coomber (Sheffield) – Globalization Then and Now: A Window Into the Prophetic Message
  • Philip Davies (Sheffield) - Socrates at Sodom
  • Anne Elvery (Monash U., Australia) - The Bible and the Earth: The 'Earth Bible' Ecojustice Principals as Moments for Ecomaterialist Encounter
  • Christopher Hays (Oxford) - Beyond Mint and Rue: The Implications of Luke's Interpretive Controversies for Modern Perceptions of Consumerism and Global Responsibility
  • David Horrell (Exeter) - Ecojustice in the Bible? Pauline Contributions to an Ecological Theology
  • Walter Houston (Oxford) - “Rule” in a Non-Violent World: Cosmic Utopia and Environmental Justice
  • Michelle Krejci (Sheffield) - An Atheist's Dilemma: Bending the Bible for Justice?
  • Louise Lawrence (Exeter) - A Signs Source: Approaching Deaf Hermeneutics
  • Diana Lipton (King's College London) - I Have Always Relied on The Kindness of Strangers: Hospitality and the Geneva Conventions of Ancient Israel
  • Hilary Marlow (Cambridge) - "Therefore the Land Mourns" : Environmental justice and the Hebrew prophets
  • David McIlroy (Spurgeon's College) - The Use of the Bible by Christian Human Rights Organizations
  • Mary Mills (Liverpool Hope) - The Other City in the Book of Jonah
  • Alissa Jones Nelson (St. Andrews) - Justice and Biblical Interpretation Beyond Subjectivity and Self-Determination: A Contrapuntal Reading on the Theme of Suffering in Job
  • Leo Perdue (Brite Divinity School, USA) - Two Visions, Two Tomorrows, Two Worlds: Neocolonialism and the Fourth Paradigm
  • Pekka Pitkänen (Gloucester) - Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde?: Deuteronomy and the Rights on Indigenous Peoples
  • Hugh Pyper (Sheffield) - Rough Justice: Lars von Trier's 'Dogville' and the Theology of Wrath.
  • Peniel Rajkumar (UTC, India) - The Bible and Dalit Liberation in India: Rethinking the Rift Between Christian Dalit Theology and the Practice of the Indian Church, Using Synoptic Healing Stories
  • Federico Roth (Fuller, USA) - Justice for the Insider-Outsider: Engaging the U.S.'s Immigration Dilemma by Examining Ancient Israel's Counterpart
  • Christopher Rowland (Oxford) - Blake and Justice
  • John Sandys-Wunsch (U. Victoria, Canada) - Mr. Bentham Spoils the Party: Or to What Extent is the Belief in Human Rights Either Biblical or Useful?
  • Yvonne Sherwood (Glasgow) - On the Genesis of the Alliance Between the Bible and Rights
  • Gerrie Snyman (UNISA, South Africa) - Decentering Whiteness and Doing Justice to the Biblical Text After Apartheid
  • John Vincent (UTU, Sheffield) - Scripture and Justice in the Inner City: The Sheffield Experience
  • Gerald West (UKN, South Africa) - From a Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) for the Economy to the
    RDP of the Soul: Public Realm Biblical Appropriation in Postcolonial South Africa
  • Simon Woodman (South Wales Baptist College) - Can the Book of Revelation Be a Gospel for the Environment?
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