Runcie Convocation Lecture Series

The Foundation inaugurated the Convocation Series in 1982 which was designed to call attention to the various leading theological issues of the day by hosting some of the more outstanding intellectual figures in these various fields. In 1984, Lord Robert Runcie, then Archbishop of Canterbury, officially endorsed the Foundation’s ministry course on behalf of the Church of England and commissioned Lord John Tinsley, then Bishop of Bristol and sometime Professor of Theology at Leeds University, to sit on the Foundation’s Board of Trustees. Bishop Tinsley read out the official statement from the Archbishop at the inauguration of the new Anglican-Roman Catholic-Lutheran program and thus commenced a long-standing relationship. Bishop Tinsley continued to serve on the Board and to teach on the faculty at the Foundation until his retirement, at which time Lord Runcie, continuing his loyalty to the Foundation, appointed Bishop David Tustin, suffragan Bishop of Lincoln in England, to serve in a similar capacity.

By maintaining a firm commitment to educating those in ministry through the nurturing of an ongoing community of learning, the Foundation provides Convocations in keeping with its established reputation for excellence and relevance.

In the spring of 2000, in response to the untimely death of Lord Runcie, the Foundation established The Lord Robert Runcie Convocation Lecture Series in honor and recognition of the loyalty and support he showed to the Foundation’s work in ministry education.

Convocation Series 1982-1999

The (late) Rt. Revd John Tinsley
Bishop of Bristol and formerly Professor of Theology,
University of Leeds (England)
“Letters from Canterbury: A Personal Message from the Archbishop”

The Rt. Rev. Krister Stendahl
Bishop of Stockholm and Formerly Dean of Harvard Divinity School
“Ecumenism as Brake – and as Breakthrough”

The (late) Rev. William B. Oglesby, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Pastoral Care and Counseling,
Union Theological Seminary (VA)
“From Pastoral Counseling to Spiritual Direction: The Trend”

The Rt. Revd David Tustin
Bishop of Grimsby and Suffragan Bishop of Lincoln (England)
“Orders and Ordination: A New Approach to Ministry Training"

The (late) Rev. Dr. James B. Ashbrook
Professor of Religion and Personality at Garrett-Evangelical
Theological Seminary and Northwestern University
“Brain Studies and the Ministry Today: Understanding the Latest
Developments”

The Rt. Rev. Hartmut Badenhop
Suffragan Bishop of Hannover (Germany)
“The German Church: East and West”

The (late) Revd Canon John Macquarrie
Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity Emeritus,
Christ Church College, University of Oxford
“The Papacy in the Unified Church”

The Rev. Eugene Brand
Executive Director, Lutheran World Federation (Geneva, Switzerland)
“The Coming Lutheran Merger”

Rabbi Stanley Kessler
Temple Beth Israel (West Hartford, Connecticut)
“Death and Burial in the Christian-Jewish Traditions”

Dr. Sayyid M. Syeed
Secretary General, Islamic Society of North America
“Modern Muslims in Contemporary America”

The Most Rev. John D’Arcy
Bishop of Ft. Wayne/South Bend (Indiana)
“The State of the Church in the Modern World: A Challenging Future”

The Rt. Rev. Tilewa Johnson
Bishop of the Gambia, West Africa
“Building God’s Kingdom on Earth in the Age of Globalization: Africa’s Challenge to the American Church”

Canon Bruce Duncan, D.D.
Principal of Sarum College, Salisbury, England
“Continuing Ministry Education in the United Kingdom: The Experiment at Sarum College”

Dom Felix Struik, OP, S.T.D., D.D.
Regent of Studies,
Dominican Center of Studies in the Caribbean (Puerto Rico)
“Modern Christology’s Indebtedness to a 7th Century Martyr”

The Rt. Revd. Howard Gregory, S.T.D., D.D.
Suffragan Bishop of Montego Bay (West Indies)
“Corporate Globalization: An Episcopal Assessment and Critique”

Jean Houston, Ph.D., Ph.D.
Founder, International Institute for Social Artistry
“Social Artistry: The Making of Leaders Who Lead in a World in Crisis”

Runcie Lecture Series

Inaugurated May 2000

The Reverend Canon Vincent Strudwick, D.D. (2000)
Chamberlain and Honorary Fellow of
Kellogg College, University of Oxford
Bishop John Tinsley Professor of Anglican Theology (GTF)

The Reverend Father Henry Wansbrough, OSB (2001)
Regent of Studies at Saint Benet’s Hall of Oxford

The Reverend Canon Jane Shaw, Ph.D., D.D. (2002)

Dean of Divinity and Fellow of New College, University of Oxford
Evelyn Underhill Professor of Historical Theology (GTF)

Professor Ewert Cousins, Ph.D. (2003)
Professor of Theology Emeritus, Fordham University
Dean of the Foundation
Teilhard de Chardin Professor of Theology and Spirituality (GTF)

The Reverend Jeremy Sheehy, Ph.D., D.D. (2004)
Principal of St. Stephen’s House, University of Oxford

Angus Hawkins, Ph.D. (2005)
Director of International Programmes and
Bursar of Kellogg College, University of Oxford

The Reverend Father James F. Puglisi, SA, Ph.D., S.T.D., D.D. (2006)
Minister General of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement
Director of Centro Pro Unione (Rome)
Professor of Ecumenical Theology, Angelicum (Rome)
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman Professor of Catholic Theology (GTF)

Basil A. J. Mustafa, Ph.D. (2007)
The Nelson Mandela Fellow in Educational Studies,
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Associate Tutor in Islamic Studies,
Oxford University Department for Continuing Education

The Rev. Hugh R. Page, Jr., Ph.D., D.Min. (2008)

Dean of the First Year of Studies, Walter Associate Professor of Theology andAssociate Professor of Africana Studies (University of Notre Dame)Benjamin E. Mays Professor of Scripture and Applied Ministries

and Counsel to the President for Anglican Affairs (GTF)