Who is my neighbour? The Ethics of Global Relationships - September – November 2016
With the UK voting to leave the European Union and with realisation of increasing division, xenophobia, and confusion over future national and international relationships, the St Martin-in-the-Fields Autumn Lecture Series examines the crucial question: Who is my Neighbour?
What does the Christian commandment to love one’s neighbour as oneself actually means for us today. Lectures by renowned theologians and thinkers will reflect on this subject in relation to issues of ecology, immigration, fear and discrimination, the present political climate both in UK, Europe and the USA and how that the lives of our poorest neighbours may in fact be God’s gift to us as a Church and as a Nation.
Rowan Williams who gives the first lecture in this series writes:
“The way that our world works, as many people have said in recent years, seems to be a way in which the boundaries and barriers are rising higher between different parts of the human race. It is a world in which very few voices are saying that the death of a child in Africa or the suffering of a woman in Syria, diminishes the reality of the child or woman in Britain, or the other way round. And if the church is not saying that, God forgive us, and God help us. That’s unity. There is our calling to let the Son of God be revealed in us, to be a sign of a unity that brings alive that deep sense of connectedness in the human world…. Each person is diminished by the pain of another and each person is enriched by the holiness of another”
All lectures from 7.00pm-8.30pm at St Martin-in-the-Fields, and are free and open to all.
To ensure a place please book a free ticket on Eventbrite
Monday 19 September, 7.00pm
Rowan Williams: Who is my neighbour? The Ethics of Global Relationships
Monday 3 October, 7.00pm
Michael Northcott: My neighbour and the ecological crisis
Monday 17 October, 7.00pm
Sarah Teather: My neighbour the refugee
Monday 24 October, 7.00pm
Sarah Coakley: My neighbour beyond fear and discrimination
Monday 31 October, 7.00pm
Stanley Hauerwas: My neighbour, my nation and the presidential election
Monday 14 October, 7.00pm
Sam Wells: My neighbours, God’s gift
With the UK voting to leave the European Union and with realisation of increasing division, xenophobia, and confusion over future national and international relationships, the St Martin-in-the-Fields Autumn Lecture Series examines the crucial question: Who is my Neighbour?
What does the Christian commandment to love one’s neighbour as oneself actually means for us today. Lectures by renowned theologians and thinkers will reflect on this subject in relation to issues of ecology, immigration, fear and discrimination, the present political climate both in UK, Europe and the USA and how that the lives of our poorest neighbours may in fact be God’s gift to us as a Church and as a Nation.
Rowan Williams who gives the first lecture in this series writes:
“The way that our world works, as many people have said in recent years, seems to be a way in which the boundaries and barriers are rising higher between different parts of the human race. It is a world in which very few voices are saying that the death of a child in Africa or the suffering of a woman in Syria, diminishes the reality of the child or woman in Britain, or the other way round. And if the church is not saying that, God forgive us, and God help us. That’s unity. There is our calling to let the Son of God be revealed in us, to be a sign of a unity that brings alive that deep sense of connectedness in the human world…. Each person is diminished by the pain of another and each person is enriched by the holiness of another”
All lectures from 7.00pm-8.30pm at St Martin-in-the-Fields, and are free and open to all.
To ensure a place please book a free ticket on Eventbrite
Monday 19 September, 7.00pm
Rowan Williams: Who is my neighbour? The Ethics of Global Relationships
Monday 3 October, 7.00pm
Michael Northcott: My neighbour and the ecological crisis
Monday 17 October, 7.00pm
Sarah Teather: My neighbour the refugee
Monday 24 October, 7.00pm
Sarah Coakley: My neighbour beyond fear and discrimination
Monday 31 October, 7.00pm
Stanley Hauerwas: My neighbour, my nation and the presidential election
Monday 14 October, 7.00pm
Sam Wells: My neighbours, God’s gift
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