Women played a vital role in the story of Jesus. Not least because they were first witnesses of the resurrection. This study morning - at which both men and women are very much welcome – will look at how each of the evangelists (writers of the Gospels) offers us particular insights into the roles that women played as disciples and companions of Jesus and leaders in the life of the Church. We will draw in music and art to help tell the story.
Dr Clare Amos is recently retired from her position as Programme Coordinator for Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation at the World Council of Churches, Geneva, where she has worked for the last six years. Prior to coming to Geneva Clare worked for 10 years at the Anglican Communion Office as Director for Theological Studies, also holding responsibility for interfaith concerns. She was honoured to be recognized for her work by the award of a Lambeth DD in 2012. Clare’s background is as a biblical scholar and teacher, and in her past she lived in the Middle East for 10 years, both in Jerusalem and Lebanon, where she both studied and taught the Bible. A passion for the Middle East, its people, its mosaic of different religious traditions and its problems, has been part of her life ever since, and is partly what led her to work over the last 20 years in the field of interfaith engagement. Clare has published a considerable number of articles, features and short books in the fields of biblical studies, interreligious issues and spirituality. She hopes now that her retirement will offer her the opportunity to work intensively on the ‘big book’ she has long wanted to produce – on the theme of transfiguration as an integrating motif in Christian, and in particular Anglican, theology. She is grateful to Vaughan Park for the opportunity to write in such beautiful and peaceful surroundings. Clare is an Anglican laywoman with UK nationality: she is married to Canon Alan Amos an Anglican priest.
Led by Clare Amos
Vaughan Park Scholar (Switzerland)
Saturday 2nd June 2018
10.00am—1.00pm
No charge
To register please email
admin@vaughanpark.org.nz
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