05.10.2012
Hong Kong Theological College Principal to deliver Godfrey Day Lecture in TCD
The Godfrey Day Memorial Lecture 2012, under the auspices of the Dublin University Far Eastern Mission, will be held in the Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, the Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin from 7.00pm to 8.30pm on Thursday 18 October.
This year’s speaker is Dr Gareth Jones, Principal of SKH Ming Hua Theological College (Anglican Province of Hong Kong & Macau). He will speak about “Multiculturalism and Christianity in East Asia.” The lecture will be preceded by Choral Evensong in College Chapel at 5.15pm and a reception in House 27 at 6.15pm. Admission is free and all are welcome.
A graduate ofJesus College, Cambridge Dr. Gareth Jones was Oxford University’s Bampton Junior Research Fellow at Keble College, from 1988 to 1991, when he moved to Birmingham University as Lecturer in Systematic Theology. After working in Canterbury as Professor of Theology, during which time he participated widely in theological education in Africa, Dr. Jones is now Principal of SKH Ming Hua Theological College in the Anglican Province of Hong Kong & Macau.
His lecture, entitled “Multiculturalism and Christianity in East Asia”, will focus on the particular relationship between China’s historic Christian missions and its present identity. In particular he will interrogate whether the description of Christianity in China as an “emerging” faith is appropriate to describe the process of Christianity’s remarkable growth and development in that country.