20 Dec 2016
Corrymeela Belfast Office, 83 University St. Belfast BT7 1HP

Spirituality and Power Seminar

“From Empire to the Kingdom – evangelical conversations about colonisation and Christianity.”

Tuesday, 20th December 2016, 4pm – 5.30pm Corrymeela Belfast Office, 83 University Street, Belfast, BT7 1HP

This seminar is part of Corrymeela’s Spirituality and Power Series, find out more.

Coffee and tea served, suggested donation £5, spaces are limited to 20, please indicate interest to belfast@corrymeela.org

Corrymeela is delighted to host the theologian Rev Robert S. Heaney for this afternoon conversation. He will be speaking about the relationship of Christianity to the legacy of empire and colonisation.

The Rev. Robert S. Heaney, Ph.D, D.Phil. serves as the director of the Center for Anglican Communion Studies and associate professor of Christian mission at Virginia Theological School. As director, Heaney ensures the center’s continued support of theological education; the engagement of Anglican leaders and scholars in study, research and conversation; and interreligious dynamics across the Communion.

Rev. Heaney received a Ph.D. from Dublin’s Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy in 2003. In 2010, he accepted a post in Tanzania while researching African and Postcolonial theology for a D.Phil. degree from the University of Oxford, which he successfully completed in the summer of 2013. Heaney also received a Master’s of Theology in 2006 from the University of Oxford and a B.A. in theology in 1998 from the London School of Theology.

He is the author of several journal and book articles, including:
From Historical to Critical Post–Colonial Theology,Pickwick, 2015
Evangelical Postcolonial Conversations, IVP Academic, 2014
Views of Colonization Across the Communion, The Wiley–Blackwell Companion to the Anglican Communion 
Prospects and Problems for Evangelicalisms and Post–colonialisms”in Great Awakenings: Evangelical Engagements with Postcolonialism,
He is the founding editor of “Soma: An International Journal of Theological Discourses and Counter–Discourses”