Society for the Study of Christian Ethics 2021 Postgraduate Conference - Cities of God: Politics, Theology and Ethics

Society for the Study of Christian Ethics 2021 Postgraduate Conference will run from
9am-5pm on Friday, 12 March 2021.

Event Description – This year’s postgraduate conference explores how Christianity informs political realities. We welcome submissions from postgraduate students interested in Christian ethics as well as related disciplines such as moral, historical and practical theology, biblical and religious studies, and doctrine.

Our keynotes speakers are Prof Joshua Hordern (University of Oxford) and Prof Wai-luen Kwok (Hong
Kong Baptist University).

Call For Papers

We will consider several different approaches within theological ethics including, but not limited to:

How do the affections, worship and desire shape our political life?
How might Christianity shape our understanding of the public sphere, suffering, justice, protest and/or civil disobedience?
How does moral philosophy intersect with political theology?
What role does the Bible have in our political theologies?
In what ways can patristic tradition inform political theology today?
How does the doctrine of God and Christology inform our political and ethical lives?
How do scripture and doctrine critically engage or undergird political visions?
Case studies on how Christianity has shaped the ethical outlooks of particular communities.
How does Christian Ethics interact with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
Papers related to: economies, feminisms, ecologies and climate issues, gender and sexualities, racialisations, citizenship, migration, place and displacement colonialisms, critical and queer theory, disability studies, medical ethics, technologies and artificial intelligence, fictions and poetics, public scholarship and creative pedagogies.

Details

This year SSCE is partnering with the Journal of the Oxford Graduate Theological Society. Attached to the
submission, please indicate in a short sentence whether you would be willing to have your paper
considered for publication in a special edition of the journal.

The deadline for submission is 11 January 2021. Paper presentations will be 20 minutes in length. To submit
a proposal, please email a 200-300 word abstract to pg-convener @ ssce.org.uk. The conference will run from
9am-5pm on Friday, 12 March 2021.

Registration details: https://www.ssce.org.uk/pg-forums.