EVENTS

08/10/2010   18:00

Israel and the Church: A Common Heritage and Uncertain Future

LST is hosting the Israel and the Church conference from Friday 8th October to Saturday 9th October.

The Conference will explore the often tense relationship between the Church and Israel and provide insights into the Middle East Crisis, encouraging Christians to pray and evangelise among Jews and Muslims in Britain and abroad.

Jointly organised by Chosen People Ministries and King’s Evangelical Divinity School, the speakers will outline and analyse aspects of the Church’s relationship with Israel, including issues such as supercessionism, the ongoing election and purposes in the plan of God for the nation of Israel, the history and present role of Christian Zionism as it relates to Jewish evangelism, how the current theological debate is being played out against the backdrop of the volatile Middle East conflict, and Jewish mission. It will help Evangelicals, regardless of their theological perspective, to develop a clearer and more complete theology regarding the relationship between Israel and the Church, leading towards a deeper biblical and theological basis for Jewish mission.

The aim is for the conference to produce more light than heat, especially seeking agreement on the need and strategic importance to reach Jewish people with the Gospel. It is also envisaged the conference will contribute towards constructive theological dialogue between theologians from all sides, thus helping to shift the discussion away from what has too often been an unnecessarily pejorative and polemic approach.

Some of the papers delivered at the conference will be included in a new volume exploring the nature, cause and effects of the uneasy relationship between the Church and Israel, due for publication in 2011.

For Programme outline King’s Evangelical Divinity School

To register please visit  Israel and the Church

 

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