ST THOMAS UNITY LECTURE SCHEDULE 2012

Lecturer: Brian Dunn M.St.

Title: - 'If you can drive in India, you can drive anywhere: adventures in Indian Christian theology.'

MAY

26 Saturday Blackburn, Church of St James on the Hill, BBI 8EL, 7.30 p.m. 01254 51864 ajohn419@btinternet.com

29 Tuesday Cardiff, St Michael‘s College, CF5 2YJ, 2 p.m. 029 2083 8004 Sheryl.Williams-Gascoigne@stmichaels.ac.uk

30 Wednesday London Heythrop College, Loyola Hall, W8 5HN, 2 p.m 020 7795 6600 m.ganeri@heythrop.ac.uk

31 Thursday Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, OX1 3AE, 2 p.m. 01865 304300 gavin.flood@theology.ox.ac.uk

JUNE

7 Thursday Birmingham Aston University, B5 7EY, 6 p.m. 0121 350 3967 adramble@gmail.com Refreshments from 5 p.m.

11 Monday Leicester St Philips Church, LE2 1HN, 7 p.m. 0116 283 4031 or 0116 273 3459; suresh@skumar.plus.com

12 Tuesday Belfast Edgehill College, Queens University, BT9 5BY, 12.30 p.m. followed by lunch. 028 90665870; office@edgehillcollege.org

14 Thursday Edinburgh Martin Hall, New College, EH1 2LU, 4 p.m. 01631 710550 mackenziema@ymail.com

Brian Dunn is a doctoral candidate in theology at Regent’s Park College in Oxford University.  He has had considerable international experience having lived in Zambia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.  He and his family lived in North India where he worked for seven years at an international school in the foothills of the Himalayas.  As head of the Religious Education department and school Chaplain, he taught and developed curriculum for classes in ethics, philosophy, and world religions for secondary-level students from international and multi-faith backgrounds.   

He completed his Masters in Religious Studies at Oxford University with examination papers in the methodology of religious studies, classical Buddhism, and a dissertation focus of second century Christianity and its interaction with the philosophical and religious plurality of the ancient Near East.  Mr. Dunn is currently pursuing his doctoral research in the field of comparative theology.  His present focus is on the life and writings of a South Indian Christian theologian, Ayadurai Jesudason Appasamy, and his particular comparative interaction with Hindu philosophical and theological conceptions of divine embodiment.  It raises the question of the importance and relevance of the experience of church unity in India, to the search for unity amongst the churches in Britain today. He undertakes his doctoral studies with the intention of teaching comparative theology and religion at the post-secondary level.    He is currently the interim pastor of First Baptist Church, Thunder Bay, Canada.