Sunday 8th March
12:30 - 14:30
Join Professor Jane Williams, McDonald Professor in ChristianTheology at St. Mellitus College, and The Reverend Canon Dr Duncan Dormor,General Secretary of USPG and Canon Theologian of Portsmouth Cathedral, for theconcluding event in our Nicene Creed series: "Powers and Superpowers,Global, Earthly, and Heavenly in the Council of Nicaea"
This will follow the singing of the Samba Mass by BobChilcott as a Eucharistic setting tying in with our global themes in ourregular 10.30am service.
Attendees are invited to bring their own packed lunch.If you would like to attend, please email office@wellscathedral.org.uk toregister your interest, so we can best prepare for the right numbers.
Jane Williams is McDonald Professor in Christian Theology at St MellitusCollege. She is the author of a number of books, most recently Giver ofLife: the Holy Spirit in the Creed and the Christian Life Today (SPCK,2025).
In her contribution, Jane will be exploring some of the complexpower dynamics of the Council of Nicaea and the Creed itproduced. The Council was convened by the first ‘Christian’ Emperor, wasattended by Church leaders, many of whom had suffered persecution, and produceda creed which defines God’s power in terms of God’s coming among us, in JesusChrist, ‘for us and for our salvation’. How are we to translate thesemixed messages on how power operates?
The Reverend Canon Dr Duncan Dormor became GeneralSecretary of USPG in January 2018. Duncan is an Anglican priest, a publishedauthor, teacher and public speaker.
Before joining USPG, Duncan spent nearly two decades at St John’sCollege, Cambridge, where he served as Dean of Chapel and President (Head ofthe Fellowship) and taught anthropology and sociology of religion. He hasdegrees in Human Sciences, Theology and Demography. Duncan is a CanonTheologian of Portsmouth Cathedral and a member of Churches Together in Britainand Ireland’s Mission and Theological Advisory Group. He is currently workingon a book on mission ‘from and with the margins’. His most recent book is PopeFrancis, Evangelii Gaudium, and the Renewal of the Church (2017)