Cambridge Scholars Network

The Cambridge Scholars Network (CSN) is a week-long, invitation-only seminar for PhD students. It occurs each July in Cambridge, England and is designed to encourage them to consider their disciplines and calling from a biblical standpoint.  To this end, the CSN seeks to help young scholars:

If you are interested in applying for participation, please scroll to the bottom of this page to access the application and reference forms.

 

Dirk Jongkind will lead the 2013 Cambridge Scholars Network.

Dirk Jongkind is a Dutch biblical scholar who finished his PhD at Cambridge University. His main scholarly interest is in the Greek text of the Bible and the Graeco-Roman backdrop of Acts and the letters. Currently, he is the Research Fellow in New Testament at Tyndale House and the John W. Laing Fellow at St Edmund's College, Cambridge. He is working on legal language in and outside the New Testament. The focus of his work includes textual criticism of the Greek Bible, with emphases on grammar and lexicography, epigraphy, papyrology, and archaeology of the Graeco-Roman world and the relation of New Testament background and exegesis.
 

Caroline Eade works as a lawyer in Cambridge, England. Having initially trained as a litigator, she now specialises in charity law.  She was until recently a trustee of the Jubilee Centre, which aims to research and apply biblical teaching to contemporary society, and she is a member of the writing group for Cambridge Papers, a Jubilee Centre publication. She is also active as a member of the Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship. Having studied theology at university before retraining as a lawyer, she now mentors undergraduate theologians and law students in her home church, and also co-leads a fellowship group. 

Daniel Hill (PhD King’s College, London) is an evangelical Christian. He studied Classics at the University of Oxford and did his PhD in Philosophy under Paul Helm at the University of London. He has taught philosophy at the University of Liverpool since 2000. He has also taught philosophy at the Universities of Manchester, Keele, and Chester. He has written two books,Divinity and Maximal Greatness and Christian Philosophy: A-Z (co-written), and is working on a third on intention and its role in ethics. He helps co-ordinate the Staff Christian Fellowship at the University of Liverpool, and attends an evangelical Anglican church near his home. His passion is to apply the Word of God wherever it speaks: in theology, history, ethics, science, or philosophy. He lives with his wife and two sons in Cheshire.

Greg Pritchard earned his MA from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School before continuing on to finish his PhD at Northwestern University.  The intersection of theology, history, philosophy and sociology is Greg's primary focus both in teaching and writing.  He has taught graduate level courses on apologetics, theology, ethics and Christian thought at American, European and Asian institutions of higher learning.  His book, Willow Creek Seeker Services, is in its 4^th edition English printing and has been published in three additional languages.  Currently, Greg serves as President of Communication Institute which sponsors the European Leadership Forum. He, his wife Lori, and their three children, (Isaiah, Danielle, and Alethea) reside in Naperville, IL.

Bruce A Little has Masters degrees in Apologetics and Religion and a PhD in Philosophy of Religion. Presently, he is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the L. Russ Bush Center for Faith and Culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he has been on faculty since 2001.  He also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Apologetics at Carolina Evangelical Divinity School. For over a decade, he has traveled widely in Europe and Asia, lecturing in universities, teaching in a variety of schools and presenting papers at conferences. He has published in various professional journals and has written or edited several books: A Creation-Order Theodicy: God and Gratuitous Evil; God, Why This Evil?; Francis Schaeffer: A Mind and Heart for God (ed); Engaging Culture, Defending the Faith (ed).

Ali Campbell Smith studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, graduating in 2007. After a year working in a church apprenticeship scheme she returned to the university, studying under Dr Andrew Wheatley for a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry, specialising in organolithium compounds. Since completing her PhD in 2011, Ali has combined part-time tutorial teaching of Chemistry and Maths to undergraduates and secondary school students with part-time training for Christian Youth and Children's Ministry at Oak Hill College, London. Ali continues to live in Cambridge and is heavily involved in running the youth work at Eden Baptist Church, her spiritual home since 2003. 

Peter (P.J.) Williams is the Warden (CEO) of Tyndale House. He received his MA, MPhil and PhD, in the study of ancient languages related to the Bible from Cambridge University. After his PhD, he was on staff in the Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University (1997–1998), and thereafter taught Hebrew and Old Testament there as Affiliated Lecturer in Hebrew and Aramaic and as Research Fellow in Old Testament at Tyndale House, Cambridge (1998–2003). From 2003 to 2007 he was on the faculty of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, where he became a Senior Lecturer in New Testament and Deputy Head of the School of Divinity, History, and Philosophy. In July 2007 he became the youngest Warden in the history of Tyndale House. He also retains his position as an honorary Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies at the University of Aberdeen and is a member of the Faculty of Divinity in the University of Cambridge.

 

Dates and Location

The 2013 Cambridge Scholars Network is scheduled to take place from 5 -11 July at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University. Participants will arrive at 12.30 on Friday, 5 July. Light refreshments will be available and guided historical tours of Cambridge will occur thereafter. Later in the afternoon, participants will depart for a weekend retreat at Belsey Bridge Conference Centre in Suffolk.

Participants will return to Sidney Sussex on Sunday afternoon for the remainder of the Network, which will end at 11.30 on Thursday, 11 July. Those participants who do not live in the Cambridge area will be lodging at the college. All participants will have opportunities to explore Cambridge with their peers.

Conference Fees

	Deadline	Non-Cambridge Residents	Cambridge Residents*
Early Registration	1 March 2013	€390	€190
Regular Registration	1 May 2013	€490	€290
Late Registration	14 June 2013	€590	€390

*Residents of Cambridge are charged a lesser rate as they’ll not require lodging for the portion of the programme that is hosted at Sidney Sussex.

And, if you will require a visa to attend, your application will be due no later than 15 March, 2013.

A limited number of partial bursaries/scholarships are available.

1. Download the application form. Fill it out and send it to csn@euroleadership.org.
2. Have a pastor or spiritual mentor who knows you well fill out this reference form and send it to csn@euroleadership.org.
3. Have a professor or academic advisor who knows you well fill out this reference form and send it to csn@euroleadership.org.

Please note that the reference form for the pastor or spiritual mentor differs from the reference form for the professor or academic advisor.

If you have any questions, please contact us at csn@euroleadership.org.