'Thinking about Creation' - Wycliffe Hall's Residential Study Week

Ten reasons to come:

1. Explore a topic comprehensively from different angles

We will look at creation from different perspectives: the Bible, Church history, Christian Doctrine, Ethics, Philosophy and Pastoral Care. These all provide ways into the subject and allow us to get a rounded view of the topic.

2. Experience the fellowship of the Wycliffe community

This will be a great opportunity to get a sense of what it is like to part of the Wycliffe community: living in the Hall, coming to daily Chapel services, having meals together, and enjoying all the rich conversations that take place on a daily basis.

3. Get to know our teaching staff and sample student life

It is also a chance to get to know our teaching staff and see what it would be like to be a student here, which might inspire you to come as a student yourself, or point others here, or to pray for the community in the future.

4. Deepen your thinking and refine it with current scholarship

We hope this will equip you to think more deeply about the Christian faith, and especially the doctrine of creation; to engage with some of the current scholarship across this range of disciplines; and to have a chance to discover new resources for future study.

5. Explore the inspiring city of Oxford

It is also an opportunity to explore Oxford. There is so much going on here reflecting the vast number of things that have taken place in this great city over the centuries. We will include some events in the schedule, and will make space for you to add in things that would be of special interest to you.

6. Consider it an opportunity for solo or group discipleship or study

We encourage people to use this week to explore the resources of the Christian faith. It could be a chance to do some study of theology, or you could make into more of a pilgrimage. You may wish to come with others from your church or place of study and use it as part of your discipleship or of your education.

7. Develop dialogues and friendships within a stimulating, like-minded environment

We expect it to be a rich time of study, conversation and friendship building, within an intellectually stimulating, convivial and supportive setting. 

8. Equip yourself to better respond to the challenges facing today's world

You will be offered time, space and a framework of perspectives within which to reflect and wrestle with issues that are present in the church and in the world today.

9. Dedicate time to your theological study without external distractions

Being a residential course, you can safeguard the time and space to reflect, to study, to fully focus and immerse yourself, away from the interruptions of everyday life. 

10. Harness the powerful stimulus of the in-person experience

This is an on-campus, in-person, face-to-face learning experience that simply can't be replicated through remote or online learning. For a week you'll be able to live and breathe what you're studying within an environment designed to inspire and stimulate that.