2024 Chamberlain Holiness Lectures will feature Dr. Tom Noble

Annual Event will be held Sept. 30–Oct. 2

WBS is pleased to announce this year’s speaker for the Chamberlain Holiness Lectures will be Dr. Thomas Noble, a past president of the Wesleyan Theological Society and of the T. F. Torrance Theological Fellowship. A native of Scotland, Noble is a Professor of Theology at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri, and a Senior Research Fellow in Theology at Nazarene Theological College in Manchester, UK.

Among other publications, he is on the editorial team for the New Dictionary of Theology, and his most recent publication is Holy Trinity – Holy People: The Theology of Christian Perfecting. The Church of the Nazarene commissioned him to write Christian Theology, Volume 1: The Grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

The theme for this year’s lectures will be “Holiness and the Holy Trinity,” including talks on “Holiness and the Holy Father,” “Holiness and the Beloved Son,” and “Holiness and the Sanctifying Spirit.” Noble has written extensively on the grounding of the doctrine of sanctification in Trinitarianism and the pastoral implications for a people defined by holy love in the likeness of the triune God.

Kenneth J. Collins of Asbury Theological Seminary writes of Noble’s work, “Carefully contextualizing the vital doctrine of Christian perfection in terms of Scripture and church tradition, both Eastern and Western, Noble offers the reader a remarkably balanced assessment of John Wesley’s articulation of entire sanctification that is sophisticated, informed by a number of theological streams, and wonderfully trinitarian.”

Reviewing Noble’s systematic theology, WBS alumnus and Professor of Christian Thought at Oklahoma Wesleyan University Jerome Van Kuiken writes, “His work deserves a wide readership among those in the pan-Wesleyan family who want an orthodox, evangelical, erudite, and globally conscious articulation of their faith.”

Lectures will be held 6:30-8:00 p.m. CST on Monday and Tuesday at Madison Methodist Church, and 10:00-11:30 a.m. on Wednesday at the WBS campus.

The Chamberlain Holiness Lectures were established at WBS in 1985 through a generous donation from Ray and Marianne Chamberlain, to “Invite the best and most outstanding exponents of scriptural holiness available.” There is no cost to attend and the lectures will be streamed online.

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