The theme for the Tyndale Fellowship New Testament Study Group in 2025 is Eschatology in the New Testament, and we are meeting from Monday 30th June to Wednesday 2nd July 2025 at the excellent conference facility of The Hayes Conference Centre, Derbyshire, UK. It is easily accessible by train from London, and off the M1 by car.
Eschatology is a central theological theme in the New Testament. It frames Jesus’ proclamation of the kingdom of God in the gospels, and in the epistles provides the grounding of our understanding of both discipleship in the present and hope for the future. In previous generations, its importance has often been marginalised, and in contemporary scholarship and popular reading, many aspects of eschatology are highly contested.
We invite proposals of up to 200 words for papers on topics relating to the theme, which could include (but are not limited to) questions around the language of eschatological expectation in any section of the New Testament, themes across different texts, addressing specific contested questions, and the nature of eschatological in the New Testament against its Old Testament background and its context in Second Temple Judaism.
The sessions will include a panel discussion with Dr Bruce Longenecker and Dr Sydney Tooth regarding their recent research and publications in this area.
We are anticipating that, depending on the range of subjects covered, the papers might well form the core of a publication following the conference. We also welcome proposals for papers on any NT topic for an open session.
Paper titles and proposals should be sent to Paul Wilson ([email protected]), by Friday 3rd January 2025.
We plan to publish the full programme mid-January 2025.
Topics for future years are planned as follows:
2026: Paul and Judaism
2027: Revelation and apocalyptic in the New Testament
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