To be transformed, by the renewing of our minds
On 17th February 2014 to mark the 50th anniversary of theological education at the Braemor Park, the Theological Institute staff, past Theological College staff, current students, and the first ordinands to transfer there from the Mountjoy Square Divinity Hostel in 1964, met for prayer and celebration. The Revd Dr David Hewlett, with taught systematic theology at the College from 1985 – 1990 and is now Principal of the Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education in Birmingham, preached the following sermon.
Working in the Theological College at Braemor Park in the 1980s was formative in so many ways: • In crossing cultures I learned to see my own culture in a new and critical way. • Learning to teach - and learning that in doing so I learned more than I taught. • Being brought sharply up against the scandal of Christian division. It was my first experience of living and working in such a diverse community, which at its best sought to live unity-in-diversity, and was often divided and divisive.* Full article available in printed copies.
David Hewlett
Principal of the Queens Foundation, an ecumenical theological college in Birmingham, and was lecturer in systematic theology in the C of I Theological College in Dublin in the mid to late 1980s.