CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 20 February 1999
From: The RCB Library
Email: RCB Library
Annual Theological lectures in Queen's
The annual theological lectures, which are organized each spring by
the Church of Ireland Chaplaincy in Queen's University, Belfast, are one
of the intellectual highlights of the year. This year's lectures will be
held on Monday and Tuesday in the Geography Lecture Theatre, Elmwood
Avenue at 5.30 pm. The lecturer will be Dr. Christine Baxter who will
speak on "Authority and Service in Christian Leadership Today: a
Conservation with St. Paul in Corinthians" and on "Service and
Authority in Christian Leadership Today: Questions posed to us by St.
Paul and the Corinthians".
Dr. Baxter is Principal of St. John's College, Nottingham, which is
one of the leading Anglican theological colleges in England, and is
closely involved in the work of the General Synod and the Anglican
Consultative Council. She has an international reputation as a
theologian having been a former visiting professor in Princeton
Theological Seminary where she gave the prestigious Warfield Lectures in
1990 and the Church of England representative on the Partners in Mission
Consultation in South Africa in 1996.
Since 1993 Dr. Baxter has been a member of the Archbishop of
Canterbury's Advisory Group and her contribution to the life of the
Church of England was recognized in 1996 with her appointment as lay
Canon Theologian in Coventry Cathedral.
Today (Saturday) the South American Missionary Society will hold its
Annual Conference and Rally in Lurgan where among the guest speakers
will be the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr. Robin Eames, who will report on
his recent visit to South America.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will broadcast Morning Service from St.
Polycarp's Church, Finaghy, south Belfast, where the rector is the Revd
Clifford Skillen, while BBC Radio Ulster will carry Morning Service from
St. Patrick's Church, Ballymena, conducted by the Revd Robin Lavery.
In Dublin the Lenten preacher in St. Bartholomew's parish church will
be the former Archbishop of Dublin, Dr. Donald Caird, while in the
Chapel of Trinity College, the preacher will be the Revd Norman
McCausland, Chaplain-Tutor in the Theological College.
At the Sung Eucharist in Christ Church Cathedral, Fr. Bernard Treacy
OP, editor of Doctrine & Life, will be the first preacher in a
Lenten series of addresses entitled "A Faith for the New
Millennium" while Evensong will be sung in memory of Arnold
McKiernan who was the Cathedral's Organist and Director of Music from
1955 to 1979.
The final lecture in the series on medical ethics, in the new
hospital in Tallaght, will be held on Monday evening when Dr. Marianne
Arndt, from the Department of Nursing in the University of Stirling will
speak on "Ethical Considerations in the Allocation of Resources in
Healthcare".
"Medical Ethics" is also the subject of the first in series
of talks organized by the churches in Malahide and Portmarnock which
will take place in St. Andrew's School Hall, Malahide on Wednesday
evening.
On Tuesday the final lecture in the lunchtime series on Christ Church
in Stuart Dublin" will be given by Dr. Edward McParland, from the
Department of the History of Art in Trinity College, Dublin, who will
speak on "The Four Courts at Christ Church: an Architectural
View".
In St. Patrick's Cathedral on Thursday evening the Friends will host
a talk by the architect, David Slattery, on the restoration of the Boyle
and Jones monuments in the cathedral.
The Bishop of Tuam, Dr. Richard Henderson, will conduct a parish
mission in Camlough, Co. Down, for three days, beginning on Wednesday,
while in the Joly Theatre in Trinity College, Dublin the Governor of
Mountjoy Prison, Mr. John Lonergan, will speak on the Lenten theme of
captivity.
On Friday evening the Representative Church Body Library will remain
open until 7.30 pm.
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