Dr David Bennett

Seven years — St Andrews to Oxford — distilled into 110,000 words. Queering the queer in Contemporary Theology…. Not just the first systematic theology from a gay celibate (Side B) perspective but the first ever treatment from patristics through to modern theology of gay desire.

For colleagues and friends in Oxford, myself and Dr Edward David will be hosting a book launch for our Gen Z project tomorrow @BlackfriarsOx Friday 22 May, 4:30-6PM Blackfriars Hall, oxford Do join for our interactive workshop! 🎫eventbrite.com/e/the-spiritua…

‘… good theologians are—among other things—those formed by graces which are the troubling, eschatological gifts of the Holy Spirit.‘ — John Webster, The Culture of Theology

‘Only when a man has been cleansed from the shame of his evil, and has returned to his natural beauty, and the original form of the Royal Image has been restored in him, is it possible for him to approach the Paraclete.' —On The Holy Spirit, St Basil the Great

A joy to be part of an episode of #uncommonground curated carefully by @JusBrierley to bring out the best of a better conversation and better disagreement in the LGBTQI+/SSA Christian world and for the church. Coming in 5 weeks with @VinesMatthew #lgbtqinchrist #faithfullylgbtq

@Make_it_Raines Praying.

Please pray for me and my friends

3/3 miss is the mercy their lives all hang by, stuck in the lovelessness that cannot cope with or see the complexity of another’s story or the depth of God’s nature and Gospel. The most tragic toxin and forfeit of grace is not sexual failure, but pride and self-righteousness.

2/3 As we watch the scribes and Pharisees (reformed, conservative etc), Sadducees (progressive, revisionists), and teachers (preachers and commentators) of our day throw down their judgments, let us watch Jesus enter, saying ‘he without sin cast the first stone.’ What they all…

1/3 As a celibate gay Christian myself, I want to call us, as we process and lament the news about Sam Allberry, to hold it alongside this good news of the potentiality of the Orthodox world’s first same-sex attracted saint, St Seraphim Rose.

Keble Chapel turns 150 years old today! 📷 | @KebleOxford #OnThisDay

Wonderful to begin tutoring @kebleoxford this term for Christian Ethics, and to land back for my 13th year of living in Oxford. #spring #sanctus #keble

So glad a bad bill did not pass in the @UKHouseofLords ... a society must make decisions not off political swings, but off sound reflection, not populist sentiment that is rushed and does not explore the full reality of death and dying from a thicker ethical foundation.

Looks great... might try to make this.

“The Trinity is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man—and the dogma is the drama.” - The Whimsical Christian, Dorothy Sayers

@AP_Davison @AnthropicAI So glad to introduce you 🙏

A couple of week's ago I read 'Claude's Constitution' from @AnthropicAI. I was impressed: it's more thoughtful (and better written) than anything I've come across from a corporation before. 1/2

Seven years — St Andrews to Oxford — distilled into 110,000 words. Queering the queer in Contemporary Theology…. Not just the first systematic theology from a gay celibate (Side B) perspective but the first ever treatment from patristics through to modern theology of gay desire.

@AP_Davison @SMVOxford Wonderful to see.

What a joy to see @SMVOxford full this morning, strikingly different from the doldrums of my undergraduate and graduate years. Having put that period of urbane Christian atheism behind it, the church is going from strength to strength: thoughtful, prayerful, and welcoming.

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O Lord – set my Affections on things above and fill me with thy Grace, that I may adorn the Doctrine of God my Saviour in all things. (William Wilberforce, 8 May 1796, Clapham)

I am convinced that the root cause of the CofE's many challenges is spiritual. We risk believing that money (or strategy, or safeguarding) will solve the various presenting problems, without asking the deeper questions - ultimately about our understanding of the Holy Spirit.