Luther 500 Conference

Queen’s University Belfast
Institute of Theology

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Luther 500 Conference
2nd – 3rd February 2017

Elmwood Hall, University Road, Belfast

Free Admission - Registration is not required.

Programme

Thursday 2nd February
09:00 – 10:00 Who was Martin Luther? Prof Laurence Kirkpatrick
(QUB Institute of Theology)
10:15 – 11:15 Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses
and the Origins of Reformation History
Dr Scott Dixon
(QUB School of History)
11:15 – 12:00 COFFEE/TEA BREAK
12:00 – 13:00 Luther: Wrestling with the Old Testament Dr Colin Burcombe
(IoT PhD Graduate)
13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:00 – 15:00 Luther, Revelation
and the New Testament Canon
Prof Gordon Campbell
(QUB Institute of Theology)
15:15 – 16:15 Martin Luther
and the Dilemmas of Sola Scriptura
Prof Mark Noll
(University of Notre Dame)
Friday 3rd February
09:00 – 10:00 Contemporary praise:
Learning from Luther
Prof Drew Gibson
(QUB Institute of Theology)
10:15 – 11:15 The break with Rome:
but what exactly was Luther thinking about?
Prof Stephen Williams
(QUB Institute of Theology)
11:15 – 12:00 COFFEE/TEA BREAK
12:00 – 13:00 Luther’s late ecclesiology:
more biblical, more systematic?
Prof Mark Elliott
(University of St Andrews)
13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:00 – 15:00 Luther and the Jews:
Holocaust Antecedent?
Prof Laurence Kirkpatrick
(QUB Institute of Theology)
15:15 – 16:15 America has honoured Luther
but not the Lutheran point of view
Prof Mark Noll
(University of Notre Dame)

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