Saturday 4 July 2009 from 9.00am till 5.00pm

***WITH A CONTRIBUTION FROM MICHAEL JENSEN OF MOORE COLLEGE***

The place of Scripture in the life and thinking of the Church is the most hotly contested battleground for today's Christians.

This one day seminar, led by four leading theologians from the Trinity College Theological School in Melbourne, explores the claim of Scripture alone ("sola scriptura"). In ethics, in systematic theology, even in Biblical Studies, is Scripture able to stand alone without reason, tradition and the other sources of authority at the heart of classical Anglicanism? Come and find out.

The seminar will be led by the Rev’d Dr Tim Gaden, the Rev’d Dorothy Lee, the Rev’d Dr Andrew McGowan and Dr David O'Brien.

Cost                $80 (concession available) including lunch and morning and afternoon tea

Venue             St Paul’s College, University of Sydney City Road, Newtown

                         Detailed instructions for access can be found at:

                         http://www.stpauls.edu.au/html/general/general_location.htm 

The Rev’d Dr Tim Gaden has degrees in Arts and Divinity and a doctorate from Monash University. He is the Dean of the Trinity Theological School, College Chaplain and the Stewart Lecturer in Theology. Tim Gaden teaches Greek, ethics and Anglican spiritual traditions. After completing his doctorate on the use of Hellenistic philosophy and ethics in the Apostolic Fathers and a post-doctoral position at King's College London, he held parish appointments in London and Melbourne.

The Revd Dr Dorothy Lee has degrees in Arts, Education and Divinity and a doctorate from the University of Sydney. She is the Frank Woods Distinguished Lecturer in Biblical Studies at Trinity Theological School. Dorothy Lee lectures in New Testament with a particular focus on the Gospels. She was born in Scotland and spent her childhood between the UK and Australia. For more than 20 years she was an ordained Minister of the Uniting Church, lecturing in New Testament. She became an Anglican in 2007 and is now an ordained priest. Her main research interest is the theology of the Fourth Gospel.

Associate Professor Andrew McGowan has degrees in Arts and Divinity and a doctorate from Notre Dame University in America. He is the Warden of Trinity College and a lecturer in theology. Andrew McGowan, who is an ordained priest, became Warden of Trinity College in January 2007, and he previously was the Director of the Theological School where he continues his involvement in his role as Joan F.W. Munro Lecturer.

Dr David O’Brien is the Academic Registrar, Online Coordinator & McMullin Lecturer at Trinity College. He has degrees in Science and Theology and a doctorate from Oxford University. His research interests include Judaism and Early Christianity in the Graeco-Roman Period, Clement of Alexandria and the Shepherd of Hermas and early Christian philosophy.

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