Discipleship as Relearning Self and World – a healing vision of human life

The Revd. Dr. Doug Gay: Lecturer in Practical Theology at the University of Glasgow

The Annual Denis Duncan Lecture explores aspects of healing, health and wellbeing for Christians and churches, sponsored by the Guild of Health and St Raphael, an ecumenical Christian charity.  Revd Denis Duncan was a Church of Scotland Minister who had a huge influence on the healing ministry.  The lecture is preceded by a drinks reception, and followed by a Panel discussion.

The lecture takes as its starting point Hans Küng’s famous affirmation that “the kingdom is creation healed” and explores ways to integrate the theological concepts of salvation, discipleship and sanctification with the language of healing, therapy and growth which has wider cultural currency in western societies today. It considers how current widespread interest in discipleship across church traditions can be developed and revised, so as to save the concept from seeming out of reach of ‘mere Christianity’ and use it instead to promote an integrated ‘everyday’ vision of healthy human development.
 
Panellists
Revd Dr Doug Gay
Doug is a Lecturer in Practical Theology at the University of Glasgow, has a PhD New College, Edinburgh, an MA degree in Modern History and International Politics from the University of St Andrews and a BD from the University of Glasgow. Doug is an ordained minister who trained for ministry in the Church of Scotland and worked as a Church of Scotland minister for two years, before spending six years working in Hackney, East London as a minister of the United Reformed Church. He has worked as a religious columnist for The Times and is also active as a hymnwriter and liturgist.

Professor Jim McManus
Professor Jim McManus is Vice-Chair of the Healthcare Executive Group of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, and President of the Guild of Health and St Raphael and Vice-President of the UK Association of Directors of Public Health and is a Chartered Psychologist. He has worked at the interface of health and faith for many years, most recently teaching at Heythrop College. He was awarded the Good Samaritan Medal of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care in 2010 by Pope benedict XVI and has authored both the 2008 and 2018 England and Wales guidelines on Catholic Healthcare Chaplaincy
 
Revd David Hutchison
David is Chaplain at the University of Aberdeen where he has worked since 2004. Prior to that, he was the parish minister at Torry St Fittick’s Parish Church in Aberdeen. David grew up in Aberdeen while his father was minister at Rubislaw Parish Church. David studied Geography, P.E. and Sports Science at Loughborough University. In 1986 David began his training for the Church of Scotland ministry at Edinburgh University and thereafter at Princeton Seminary in New Jersey. David is the UK & Northern Ireland representative on the Board of the Conference of European University Chaplains (CEUC).