Knight went to the AAR. He was briefly allowed to leave his desk, London, and the whole UK for the Annual Conference of the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) in Washington DC.
Highlights were:
Volf Krötke (Berlin) at the Barth Society, ably introduced by Philip Zeigler.
Luke Bretherton (KCL – English, one of ours) awed the Systematic Theology seminar, but then so did David Haddorff (Saint John’s NY).
The Ecclesiological Investigations ‘s impressive discussion of the Porto Alegre 9th Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) document Called to be the One Church. It was good to find fellow-Zizioulas readers Fr Paul McPartlan and Paul Collins making an impact. I think that the ecclesiology of Metropolitan Zizioulas would be an ideal subject for a session of this seminar next year.
The Christian Theology and the Bible seminar (Webster, Telford Work and many others), though I managed to miss all sessions of Theological Hermeneutics of Christian Scripture Group, which had an equally strong cast.
It was great to importune publishers, particularly at the swanky Eerdmans reception, to be wowed by Brazos’s Theological Theological Commentary on the Bible series, and to meet Amazon reviewer Halden Doerge
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But above all it was wonderful to catch up with the old Kings College London crowd – those pictured above (Left to right Paul Janz, Oliver Crisp, Luke Bretherton, Chris Roberts, Eric Flett, Randall Rauser and Ryan Murphy), but also and in particular Justyn Terry, Paul Metzger and George Ille.
I am very grateful to Chris Roberts and to Lincoln Harvey. I understand that neither of them want to room with me ever again so I shall be sleeping on the beach at San Diego in 2007.
