<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Challen</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peterchallen@gmail.com">peterchallen@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:18 PM<br>Subject: Honouring a Theology of Land in its contemporary application<br>To: <br><br><br><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:36pt">
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</p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center"></p><p style="text-align:left;background-repeat:initial initial"><font size="4"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Dear Friend in Faith,</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></font></p>
<p style="text-align:start;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font size="4">You, or a representative you can encourage,
are invited to consider continuing with us in the quest for a pertinent
translation of a contemporary understanding of a renewal of economic behaviour today at
intimate, corporate and global levels of our essential inter-dependence.�</font></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font size="4">HONOURING A THEOLOGY OF LAND IN ITS CONTEMPORARY
APPLICATION</font></span></b></p><p style="text-align:start;background-repeat:initial initial" align="center"><b style="font-size:large"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">The first conference on Honouring a
Theology of Land</span></b><span style="font-size:large"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">�</span></span><span style="font-size:large;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">in
the series of three wrestled with this definition of an understanding of the
biblical Covenant, when first formulated, as recorded in the books of Genesis
and Exodus.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt" align="center"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="4">A THEOLOGY OF LAND�</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt" align="center"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="4">founded in�</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt" align="center"><font size="4"><i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A COVENANT between GOD and HUMANITY,</span></i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt" align="center"><font size="4"><i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">where evolving global consciousness
ensures</span></i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt" align="center"><font size="4"><i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">that the ever emergent gift of life on
earth</span></i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt" align="center"><font size="4"><i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">is continuously replenished</span></i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt" align="center"><font size="4"><i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">by our trusteeship and husbandry�</span></i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt" align="center"><font size="4"><i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">of�the finite resources of the
land.</span></i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial" align="center"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font size="4">�</font></span></p>
<p style="text-align:start;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font size="4">It is a land deal. It is a way of
communicating the fact that God�s creation in nature requires the free and
voluntary contribution of humanity, with its unique shared consciousness, to
the maintenance and replenishment of the resources of the land, of the earth
entire, within its unique bio-sphere.</font></span></p>
<p style="text-align:start;background-repeat:initial initial"><font size="4"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">The second conference wrestled with
the concept of chaplaincy</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">, as an
extension of audit, and as a way to consider the role of the church in society.
This placed the emphasis on a universal message from all the faith traditions,
made available in given situations by close attention to the local realities
while related to the wider context of global house keeping. This would require
deeper awareness of actual issues and situations confronting people and stand instead
of general rhetoric such as we had found in the number of grand statements from
faith sources produced in 2012 and 2013.</span></font></p>
<p style="text-align:start;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font size="4">�</font><b><font size="4">The third conference is on Saturday June 1<sup>st</sup> 10.00 am-- 2.00
pm at St James, 197 Piccadilly.</font></b></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;background-repeat:initial initial"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">�</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="EN-US">Resolving the land dispute over the control of the
Holy Land remains the overriding moral and political challenge which has so far
defeated the international community of nations. Secular political and
philosophical discourses have proved unfit for purpose. How the Theology of the
Land can resolve the impasse is the subject of the discussion at this third conference.
Speakers will examine the proposition that the Covenant which laid the
foundations for the Abrahamic faiths, and its further elaboration by Jesus in
his discourse on public finance, provides the tools for a settlement that
would�foster a multi-ethnic community embracing Israel and her
neighbouring lands.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">�</span></font><span style="text-align:center;font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">How w</span><span style="text-align:center;font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="EN-US">ill leaders of the Jewish, Christian and Islamic faiths now take their
founding precepts and work with secular authorities to create a model for
conflict resolution that could then also be applied to the other crises of the
21st century? How will the influential American evangelical movement respond to
the news that Jesus challenged conventional thinking on taxation (with its
implications for modern governance and the financial sector)? How might the
economics of the Covenant undermine the spiritual credibility of the advocates
of radical Islam?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">�</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222" lang="EN-US">These
questions are intended to identify ways of re-opening the door to ecumenical
action. You are invited to participate in their elaboration so that, as a
result of our exploration of the Theology of the Land, new moral and
philosophical vistas may attract secular leaders to visualise�how peace
and prosperity is a practical prospect for everyone.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font size="4">�Please also pass this
invitation to others you feel would be interested to help in this difficult act
of inter-faith translation and agreement, which might then influence our
political and economic leaders.</font></span></p>
<p style="text-align:start;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font size="4">If you wish to register or to seek
for more details of the events and their intent, please contact�</font></span></p>
<p style="text-align:start;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font size="4"><a href="mailto:fred.harrison@talktalk.net" target="_blank"><span><span style="color:#222222;background:#ffffcc;text-decoration:none">fred</span></span><span style="color:#1155cc">.harrison@talktalk.net</span></a>�
�or ��<a href="mailto:peterchallen@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155cc">peterchallen@gmail.com</span></a></font></span></p>
<p style="text-align:start;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font size="4"><br></font></span></p><p style="text-align:start;background-repeat:initial initial">
<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font size="4">Yours along the shared pilgrims' way,</font></span></p>
<p style="text-align:start;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Rev. Canon Peter Challen</span></p>
<p style="text-align:start;background-repeat:initial initial"><font size="4"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,204);background-repeat:initial initial">Fred</span></span><span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">�</span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Harrison,
Economist of The Land Research Trust and author of 'The Traumatised Society'<span>�</span></span></font></p>
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