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Join us for this exciting in-person event to celebrate the launch of the Global Faculty Initiative's second publication Order and Disorder: Nigel Biggar in Dialogue with the University, Edited by Terence C. Halliday and K.K. Yeo. Connect with authors, share ideas, and dive into thought-provoking discussions.

This event is hosted by the Oxford Pastorate and Developing a Christian Mind (DCM) at Wycliffe Hall in partnership with the Global Faculty Initiative and Langham Publishing.

Refreshments will be served, with time for conversation and networking with fellow attendees. Langham Publishing will be present and attendees can purchase the book at an event discount.

This event is free to attend but registration is required: please book your place now via Eventbrite.

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This second book in GFI's Cross-Disciplinary Encounters with Theology series brings the power of moral theology into conversation with GFI's 200 Christian scholars in the world's research universities. These academics grapple across their diverse fields with 21st-century struggles to find synergies, balance, innovation, rightness and the promise of flourishing amid the tensions between order and disorder in every sphere of contemporary life and scholarship. The lively and charitable exchanges stimulated by Nigel Biggar's essays exemplify the influence that Christian thought can exert in the contemporary secular research university, not only in knowledge but in respectful modes of collegial discourse. Order and Disorder in turn brings to theological education the call from the disciplines for an engaged theology that is salient to all corners of university teaching and research.

Joining us in-person, The Rev Professor the Rt Hon the Lord Biggar, CBE (Theology, Oxford) will discuss with Professor Terry Halliday (Convenor, Global Faculty Initiative) the salience of issues of order with Christian scholarship. Following this, we will host a hybrid panel discussion and Q&A chaired by Rev Dr Bethan Willis (Oxford Pastorate), featuring contributors to the book and academics with an interest in the topic: Dr. Osam Temple (President, African Society of Christian Scholars), Professor Andrew Briggs, (Nanomaterials, Oxford), Dr Kezia Gaitskell, (Clinical Lecturer, Medicine, Oxford) and others to be announced. Together, they will explore key questions of order and disorder, scholarship and academic life.