Wycliffe Hall is delighted to announce our inaugural Residential Study Week, 22-27 June 2025: Thinking about Creation.
This enriching week will explore Creation, our place in the world, and our responses to contemporary views on Creation, guided by the Wycliffe teaching staff speaking from their own areas of expertise. At a time when secular perspectives on ‘nature’ and the impact of humanity on the earth are pressing concerns, Thinking about Creation is profoundly relevant to the Church’s engagement with the wider culture. This week offers a unique study opportunity for prospective students, alumni, clergy, the wider church community, and anyone interested in joining the Wycliffe community for a week.
Registrations for this year are now closed. If you would like to add you name to the waiting list, please email conferences@wycliffe.ox.ac.uk.
You can also submit your interest for next year and be the first to know by registering here.
What Atonement says about Nature Red in Tooth and Claw - Revd Dr Michael Lloyd
Engaging with Creation - an interview with Rt Revd Prof N.T. Wright
Creation and Creator in Isaiah 40-55 - Revd Dr Suse McBay
Creation in Genesis 1-4 - Dr John Screnock
Alive or Dead? Rebirth and Revival in the Teaching of J.C. Ryle - Revd Prof Andrew Atherstone
Jesus of the Forest: Modelling prayer from God's Creation - Revd Dr Ofula Kenneth
Animal Theologians - Dr Clair Linzey
Adam and Creation in Paul's Letter to the Romans - Dr Peter Head
What is the Philosophy of Religion? - Dr Max Baker-Hytch
Bonhoeffer for the Church: An Introduction - Dr Mattew Kirkpatrick
Ephesians and the Telos of Creation - Dr Erin Heim
An introduction to Tree of Life - Revd Dr Jonathan Brant
The Residential Study Week is designed after the pattern of a week for our own students. This includes morning Chapel services at the Hall, with sung and spoken worship, as well as sermons following the week’s theme.
We will also divide into smaller fellowship groups, led by our tutors, to reflect on what we’ve heard in the seminars, discussing and praying with one another. These will be groups of roughly 10 participants paired up with one of the week's tutors. These will be reflective and open spaces to talk about your experience of the week and the content of the talks.
Room and board is included in the ticket price. Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be served in the Dining Hall from dinner on Sunday to lunch on Friday.
There is also a number of tea, coffee and cake breaks for you to get to know each other and our teaching staff. This is a great time to ask about the content, Oxford or life studying at Wycliffe. Please notify us of any dietary requirements as soon as possible as we can accommodate nearly all allergies and dietary types with sufficient notice.
All rooms are in single standard accommodation, unless otherwise arranged, where bathroom facilities are shared on their corridor. All of these rooms are up at least one flight of stairs, so please let us know if this might pose you an issue.
Rooms are available to check in from 2pm on the 22nd June. Linen, bedding and towels are all provided, as well as small amounts of shower toiletries and soap.
Please contact us if you know you will be staying somewhere else, as we can discount your ticket price.
Our staff will join us for meals and breaks, as well as several of the excursions.
If you are considering study at Wycliffe, do use this time to ask us any questions you may have. While all of our staff are able to speak about Wycliffe, Matt Kirkpatrick will be available to talk specifically about graduate student programmes, and Jo Wakefield can speak to our admission process and what we can offer to prospective students.
Sample day schedule
9.00am
Morning Chapel Service
9.30am
First Lecture and Discussion
For example - Adam and Creation in
Paul’s Letter to the Romans with Dr Peter Head
11.00am
Refreshments
11.30am
Second Lecture and Discussion
For example - Ephesians and the Telos of Creation
with Dr Erin Heim
1.00pm
Lunch in the Dining Hall
2.00pm
Engaging the World: Application session with N.T. Wright
3.30pm
Afternoon tea with the tutors
4.00pm
Optional afternoon activity
(for example, punting on the river Cherwell)
5.30pm
Free time in Oxford
(Consider a visit to Christchurch Cathedral)
6.30pm
Dinner in the Dining Hall. On one evening, this will be a Formal Hall
