Religion and Education: Should UK Schools Teach 'British Values'?
Each term the Theology Café seeks to open up theological discussion and debate. Input is provided by a leading theologian or academic.
7 February: Dr Dafydd Mills Daniel, Lecturer in Theology and Ethics, University of Oxford.
Dafydd will lead a discussion on the relationship between religious and moral education, reflecting on current UK education policy, and building on both his research into the theology of education and his own experiences of teacher training on the PGCE.
21 February: Dr Henrietta Harrison, Professor of Chinese History, University of Oxford.
A Global Church and Mission in a Hostile Environment: Ideas of an 18th Century Chinese Catholic Priest
Henrietta will introduce the ideas of Li Zibiao (1761-1826), who studied in Naples and was one of the interpreters for the first British embassy to China. He spent the final thirty years of his life as a priest in Shanxi and we will look at his reflections on conversions (or not), prayer, and the global church, and what they might say to us today.