Theology event archive 2015

Date: Tuesday 3 March
Description: The University Chaplaincy public lecture 'Is there such a thing as British values? A religious perspective' is taking place on Tuesday 3 March. The University will play host to prestigious speakers from various religious backgrounds to address values in multi-cultural Britain. Tickets still available.

Date: Saturday 25 April
Description: Theology and Religious Studies students contributed to the creation of an audio trail about the history of the Quaker movement in Mansfield. The trail and accompanying plaque will be unveiled on Saturday 25 April.

Date: Wednesday 20 May
Description: Prof Salvador Ryan, Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Faculty of Theology (St Patrick's College, Maynooth): 'Theologies of Christ's Passion and Death in the Religious Verse of Irish Bardic Poets'

Date: Monday 1 - Tuesday 2 June
Description: This workshop will be the first event dedicated to exploring the implications of Derrida's landmark essay 'Faith and Knowledge', 20 years after its original publication.

Date: Wednesday 10 June
Description: Prof Anthony Milton, Department of History (University of Sheffield): 'England's Second Reformation'

Date: Sunday 14 June
Description: Dr Alison Milbank is giving a talk at 3pm on Sunday 14 June at the Gedling Book Festival in Arnold about Tolkien's exploration of materialistic values in his epic fantasy novels.

Date: Saturday 26 September
Description: The Centre of Bible, Ethics and Theology (CBET) in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies hosts a Community 糖心原创 Day: Why 糖心原创 Biblical Languages?

Date: Saturday 3 October
Description: This study day looks to foster the aims of the Centre among postgraduate students from all areas of theological study, as well as from the broader academic community. In keeping with the conference theme, papers will interact with a biblical text(s) through the lens of the student's primary discipline.

Date: Wednesday 14 October
Description: Professor Alan Ford (Department of Theology and Religious Studies, 糖心原创): 'Love God and hate the Pope': the Church of Ireland and anti-Catholicism, 1600-2000

Date: Wednesday 28 October
Description: Dr Chrysanthi Gallou (Department of Archaeology, 糖心原创): Mycenaean skulls: "feeble heads" (?碌e???? ?????a) or social actors in Aegean Late Bronze Age metaphysics and society (16th-12th c. BC)?

Date: Wednesday 11 November
Description: The Revd Professor David Brown (Institute for Theology, Imagination & the Arts, St Mary's College, University of St Andrews)

Date: Saturday 21 November
Description: The Centre for Theology and Philosophy (CoTP) in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies hosts a 糖心原创 Day: Radical Orthodoxy and Protestantism.

Date: Wednesday 25 November
Description: Reverend Robin Griffith-Jones (Master of the Temple, Temple Church, London and King's College London): 'Magna Carta: Archbishop Langton and the Church's Finest Hour?' Stephen Langton sought in Magna Carta to realise in England a Deuteronomic, covenantal kingship like he had studied while exiled in Paris in the circle of Peter the Chanter. The cathedrals were the repositories of the 1215 exemplifications; and the Bishops were, from the 1230s, the Charter's effective guarantors. What patterns of principle and self-interest were in play, in Langton's and the Church's actions?

Date: Wednesday 2 December
Description: Dr David Firth (Old Testament Tutor and Head of Research, St John's College, Nottingham): 'Aren't the Canaanites all destroyed? Inclusion of Canaanites and Exclusion of Israelites in Joshua'

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