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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 January 2009
It is an honour and a delight to be this Society's President and I am immensely grateful for the privilege. I have been coming to the Society's Annual Meetings for about twenty-five years and I owe it more than I can express. It has acted as a basic network of colleagues which I have valued more and more as our conversations have been renewed year by year. It has been my main theological community beyond my church and the institutions in which I have studied and taught: it has been so good to have this broad, ecumenical intellectual community. It has offered a rich theological life, a diversity of theological positions and arguments, and a place where I have regularly engaged with the different generations in our field.
page 52 note 2 On Paul's authority see Young, Frances and Ford, David F., Meaning and Truth in 2 Corinthians (SPCK: London, 1987), Chapter 8Google Scholar.
page 56 note 3 These include: grace (charis, with which it is etymologically akin), peace, encouragement in the midst of affliction, the God who raises the dead, hope, blessing, thanks, boasting (the AV even translates kauchesis in v. 12 as ‘rejoicing’), favour (v. 15—the Greek is charis again), glory, anointing, the Spirit in our hearts, and (the one explicit link) faith.
page 57 note 4 I am grateful to Revd John Capper whose as yet unpublished research on joy in Barth has helped me to understand its significance better.
page 58 note 5 Darton, Longman & Todd: London, 1984; 2nd edn. New City: London, Dublin and Edinburgh, 1993.
page 58 note 6 Meaning and Truth in 2 Corinthians, op. cit. Chapter 8.
page 60 note 7 O'Siadhail, Micheal, ‘Out of the Blue’ in Hail! Madam Jazz (Bloodaxe Books: Newcastle upon Tyne, 1992), p. 118Google Scholar.
page 65 note 8 I am grateful to Revd Tim Jenkins for his unpublished work on chaplaincy in the University of Nottingham.
page 67 note 9 Richard Roberts offered a vivid description of the situation in an article in The Tablet (11 October 1997), using George Ritzer's concept of ‘McDonaldisation’, a system of production control used to ensure the maximum of uniformity, predictability and control.
page 67 note 10 Cf. Ford, David F., ‘Theology and Religious Studies at the Turn of the Millennium: Reconceiving the Field’ in Teaching Theology and Religion, Vol. 1 No. 1, February 1998CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
page 70 note 11 It is very encouraging that in the past year the Theological Research Initiative has been founded and established at Queen's College, Birmingham, in order to facilitate co-operation in research between universities and the churches.