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BIBLICAL TEACHING ON LEADERSHIP IN TIMES OF CRISIS
Nehemiah surveys the crisis of fallen Jerusalem
Monday 2 November, 7.30pm
The teaching of Scripture is the proper starting point for any discussion of Christian leadership under crisis. We will mention Joseph, Moses, Hezekiah. Our main example, though, will be Nehemiah, despatched back to the ruins of Jerusalem, with a final group of the exiles, with the city and the nation of Israel in crisis. Threatened by those around them, the rebuilding project ground to a halt. How did Nehemiah provide leadership to the disheartened exiles? What lessons can we learn for today?
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Speaker
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Revd Dr Richard Turnbull
Trustee for The Christian Institute and Director of the Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics.
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Our Autumn Lectures this year take the theme of ‘Christian leadership in times of crisis’.
The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged governments around the world. What does the Christian faith have to say about leadership in such times of crisis?
This year’s lectures will provide insight and analysis of scriptural teaching, the historical response and then finally an assessment of where we have gone wrong in dealing with the pandemic.
Next week
LEADERSHIP UNDER CRISIS IN CHRISTIAN HISTORY
From the Reformers to Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Monday 9 November, 7.30pm
What did the Reformers teach about the appropriate response to plague and pandemic? Martin Luther wrote a treatise on the matter which we will consider. Thomas Cranmer fled from Cambridge in the face of a plague! In the nineteenth century there were several visitations of cholera in which thousands of people died. Bonhoeffer demonstrated true spiritual leadership from his prison cell. How did Christian leaders provide spiritual leadership to both church and nation? How was God understood to act in these times of crisis?
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