23rd-25th March 2012
Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford OX44 9EX
www.rcc.ac.uk
Keynote speakers:
Dr Jon Loose, Heythrop College, University of London; Revd Dr Joanna Collicutt, University of Oxford
Is it possible to use psychology to help us understand the Bible better? Can we gain an insight into the lives and motives of the people who wrote its different books, can psychological theories help us unpack its message, and can psychology inform the question of why and how the Bible is often appropriated in unhealthy ways? Is modern scientific psychology in conflict with biblical accounts of human nature?
These are some of the questions to be explored at this residential conference which is open to members and non-members of BACIP.
"Jon has recently reviewed the debate on biblical anthropology between Green and Cooper and is a very good communicator (he heads up the undergraduate psychology programmes at Heythrop). I am delighted that he has agreed to speak on what psychology can learn from the Bible. I will address the other half of the equation - how psychology can help us read the Bible."
- Revd Dr Joanna Collicutt
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About the speakers:
Jonathan Loose is a lecturer at Heythrop College, University of London, contributing to programmes in Philosophy, Religion and Ethics as well as Psychology/Philosophy, and Psychology/Theology. He earned a first class BSc in cognitive science and then a PhD in psychology from University of Exeter, UK, publishing computational and experimental work in psychology. His subsequent teaching at the Universities of Exeter and London has focused on a range of issues, and most recently on interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of the human person. Jon has also studied theology at the London School of Theology and University of Oxford, and served for a number of years as pastor of an independent evangelical church in Suffolk, UK.
Joanna Collicutt is lecturer in psychology and spirituality at Ripon College, Cuddesdon (a college that trains men and women for ministry in the Church of England). She is also a fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford, and Advisor on the Spiritual Care of Older People in the Diocese of Oxford. She is attahed to a parish in West Oxfordshire as an associate minister.
Joanna studied experimental psychology at Oxford University, Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, and practised for many years as a clinical psychologist, specialising in neuro-rehabilitation, gaining her PhD from Oxford Brookes University. She then studied theology at Oxford University, specialising in the Bible, and after a period as a theological researcher, became director of the MA course in Psychology of Religion at Heythrop College, until she left to take up her present posts in 2010. At Heythrop she developed a module on ‘Psychology and the Bible’. This remains her main area of research and writing. She has written academic papers, and also two books in this area: ‘Meeting Jesus: Human responses to a yearning God’ and ‘Jesus and the Gospel Women’, both published by SPCK.