Dear supporter,
Our series of Autumn Lectures 2020 continues tonight at 7.30pm.
Tonight's lecture is ‘Leadership under crisis in Christian history: From the Reformers to Dietrich Bonhoeffer’.
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?
Watch tonight's lecture on The Christian Institute’s YouTube and Facebook pages, or from our website.
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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Download our leaflet for more information about Autumn Lectures 2020.
Next week
A FAILURE OF SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP
The contemporary church response to COVID-19
Monday 16 November, 7.30pm
Many have reported increased spiritual interest in the person of Jesus Christ during this pandemic. This has often been true in these times of crisis. Individual church ministers have often been heroic. However, the response of the church as an institution has been nothing short of scandalous. Why this failure of spiritual leadership? What led to the suspension of public worship for the first time since Magna Carta? There are, of course, broader questions including the trade-off between health and economics, the proper role of the state and the place of liberty, including religious liberty. We will reflect on all these matters.
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