Newton House Conference 2022
We warmly welcome you to join us for our annual Newton House Conference: Faith and Its Affections.
Your understanding of faith and the affections shapes every part of your ministry, leadership, and personal walk with God, from your preaching and teaching to your beliefs about how people change and grow. Featuring rich theological and biblical teaching from a trusted international selection of speakers, these two days will be enriching and encouraging to both your personal life and your ministry.
The conference features teaching and Q&A sessions from Dr Michael Reeves, Professor Michael A.G. Haykin, Dr Clive Bowsher, Dr Philip G. Ryken and Dr Bradley Green.
Location: St Aldates Church, Pembroke Street, Oxford, UK
Dates: 17th and 18th June 2022
Theme: Faith and Its Affections
Cost:
General admission: £70 - includes lunch on both days
Online-only: £25
Not able to attend live? Buy an online ticket and watch the recordings at your leisure. All sessions will be recorded and available to those who purchase a conference ticket.
Speakers
Michael Reeves
Michael Reeves is President and Professor of Theology at Union School of Theology in the UK. He leads the European Theologians Network and is author of Rejoice and Tremble: The Surprising Good News of the Fear of the Lord (Crossway, 2020).
Michael A.G. Haykin
Michael A.G. Haykin serves as Chair and Professor of Church History and
Director of the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the author of a number of books on the Ancient Church and British Dissent in the long eighteenth century.
Clive Bowsher
Clive Bowsher is a pastor-theologian with a passion for understanding and communicating the word of Christ. He serves at Union School of Theology in the UK, leading and managing the School as Provost, and is the author of Life in the Son: Union, Oneness & Participation with Christ in IVP’s New Studies in Biblical Theology series (forthcoming).
Philip G. Ryken
Philip Ryken is President of Wheaton College in IL, USA. He has authored a number of books including The Message of Salvation (IVP, 2001) and When Trouble Comes (Crossway, 2016).
Bradley Green
Bradley Green is Professor of Theological Studies at Union University in Jackson, TN, USA. He is the author of several books, including The Gospel and the Mind: Recovering and Shaping the Intellectual Life (Crossway, 2010).
Schedule
Friday, 17 June
9:00 Registration
9:30 Welcome, Worship, Prayer
10:00 Session 1: Inside-Out: Why Affections Matter - Michael Reeves
11:00 Coffee and Fellowship
11:30 Session 2: Oneness with Christ - Clive Bowsher
12:30 Lunch (provided) and table group discussions
14:00 Seminars
15:30 Coffee and Fellowship
16:00 Session 3: Sweet Sensibility: Andrew Fuller & the Necessity of Religious Affections - Michael A.G. Haykin
17:00 Finish
19:00 Optional Historical Tour of Oxford
Saturday, 18 June
9:30 Welcome, Worship, Prayer
10:00 Session 4: Faith and the Affections in Boston's "Fourfold State” - Philip Ryken
11:00 Coffee and Fellowship
11:30 Session 5: Affections and the Knowledge of God - Bradley Green
12:30 Lunch (provided) and table group discussions
14:00 Optional Interview and Discussion with Bradley Green
15:00 Finish
Union School of Theology Research Conference
If you're a PhD student or scholar, consider joining us one day early for our annual research conference on the 16th of June, also in Oxford. Click here for more information.