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Notable Publications: Taliaferro, Marty, Evans, and Schrijvers
A Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion, Edited by Charles Taliaferro and Elsa J. Marty. [Purchase UK | Purchase US] A Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion is an indispensable source for students and scholars. Covering historical and contemporary fi gures, arguments, and terms, it offers an overview of the vital themes that make philosophy of religion [...]
Notable Publication: Naturalism and Our Knowledge of Reality, by R. Scott Smith
A new publication has come across our desk: Naturalism and Our Knowledge of Reality: Testing Religious Truth-claims, by R. Scott Smith (Ashgate, 2012). [Purchase UK | Purchase US | Available now through Ashgate.com] Publication Description: Philosophical naturalism is taken to be the preferred and reigning epistemology and metaphysics that underwrites many ideas and knowledge claims. But [...]
Smart Globalisation: The case for a robust and creative distributive justice
You are warmly invited to the 2012 Las Casas Lecture Smart Globalisation:The case for a robust and creative distributive justice to be given by Fr Albino Barrera OP on Friday 24th February at Blackfriars Hall. The lecture will start at 5pm, and will be followed by a reception. If you would like to attend the [...]
Notable Publication: The Democratic Contradictions of Multiculturalism
From Telos Press comes the following publication announcement: Telos Press is pleased to announce the upcoming publication of The Democratic Contradictions of Multiculturalism by Jens-Martin Eriksen and Frederik Stjernfelt. This title will be available on March 1, 2012. Pre-order your copy now, and we will ship it to you as soon as it is available. Save 20% when you [...]
CFP: Australasian Philosophy of Religion Association 2012 Conference
2012 Conference of the Australasian Philosophy of Religion Association (APRA) Keynote speakers: Richard Kearney (Boston College) Marilyn McCord Adams (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Kevin Hart (University of Virginia & Australian Catholic University) Constant Mews (Monash University) Dates: Friday June 22 – Sunday June 24, 2012 Venue: Australian Catholic University, Melbourne campus (Victoria Parade, Fitzroy) [...]
Alban Books Offer for UK/European Readers
The following offer has been sent our way from Alban Books, the UK distributor of Eerdmans: Alban Books is the exclusive UK/European distributor for Eerdmans Publishing Company in the USA. Preorder your copies of the two new titles in the Interventions series - Metaphysics: The Creation of Hierarchy by Adrian Pabst and Words of Christby Michel Henry - [...]
2012 PORTSMOUTH INSTITUTE ON MODERN SCIENCE/ANCIENT FAITH
PORTSMOUTH ABBEY SCHOOL ANNOUNCES THE 2012 PORTSMOUTH INSTITUTE ON MODERN SCIENCE/ANCIENT FAITH www.portsmouthinstitute.org January 24, 2012 Portsmouth, RI Dear Friends, The Portsmouth Institute has announced an expanded list of speakers for its June 22-24 conference on Modern Science/Ancient Faith. Speakers include Abbot James Wiseman, O.S.B. of Catholic University of America and St. Anselm’s Abbey, Washington, [...]
TELOS in Europe: The L’Aquila Conference
TELOS IN EUROPE: THE L’AQUILA CONFERENCE The West: Its Legacy and Future September 7–10, 2012 L’Aquila, Italy DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS: MARCH 15, 2012 (see details below) Conference Theme Recent developments appear to end the “end of history” and foreshadow instead the end of the West. After 1989, many expected a gradual convergence toward Western [...]
Keble Theology Workshop 7th February 2012
Dear Colleagues, Please see the attached poster for the next Keble Theology Workshop, scheduled for Tuesday 7th February. This will feature a discussion and debate on the subject, ‘Can the West Live With Islam?’ Our two high-profile speakers are Prof. Nigel Biggar, Oxford University’s Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, and Dr Tim Winter, Cambridge University’s Sheikh Zayed Lecturer in Islamic [...]
SCM Winter Sale on Veritas Books
The fine folks over at SCM Press are having a Winter Sale (see here), including excellent deals on books in the Veritas series of books: Transcendence and Phenomenology, eds. Peter M Candler, Jr and Conor Cunningham. Was £40.00, now £15.00. [Link] Belief and Metaphysics, eds. Peter M Candler, Jr and Conor Cunningham. Was £35.00, now £15.00. [Link] Theology, Psychoanalysis, and [...]
Blackfriars Aquinas Seminar 2012 News
The Regent of Blackfriars Hall, Oxford very much regrets to inform you that we were today notified by Professor Jean-Luc Marion that, on medical grounds, he is unable to deliver the Aquinas Lecture in Oxford and Cambridge at the end of this month as planned. We will be in contact with you again shortly with [...]
Review of Darwin’s Pious Idea in Quarterly Review of Biology
Michael Rose has written a review of Conor Cunningham’s Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong in the most recent issue of The Quarterly Review of Biology: “Cunningham is not shy about pulling the ontological pants of materialism down to its ankles. He supplies an unremitting attack on the scientific and philosophical views [...]
Publication Announcement: Veritas & Interventions
Diagonal Advance: Perfection in Christian Theology, by Anthony D. Baker is now out through SCM Press in the Veritas series. [Purchase UK | Purchase US] Publication Description: Diagonal Advance argues for a radical revision of Christian thinking about the purpose of human life. Perfection is neither a vertical drop from the divine, nor a horizontal progression through [...]
Dept of Theology & Religious Studies Spring Seminar Programme
Department of Theology and Religious Studies Seminar Programme 2011-12 SPRING SEMESTER 22 February 2012 Adam Lipszyc (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Science) The Time of the Poem: Poetry as Messianic Action in Paul Celan’s Meridian Speech 4pm Staff Club Room B7 14 & 15 February 2012 Firth Lectures Terry Eagleton Culture and [...]
Review of Darwin’s Pious Idea
“Dueling Dualisms”, a review of Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong by John Rose in Commonweal. [Link]
Blackfriars Aquinas Seminar 2012 Schedule
The Blackfriars Aquinas Seminar Hilary 2012 Thomas Aquinas and Contemporary Culture [Cancelled] Fri 27 Jan Jean-Luc Marion (Universities of Paris and Chicago) “The Ontological Argument Again: Thomas Aquinas and Kant, Anselm and Descartes” Thurs 2 Feb David Albert Jones (Anscombe Bioethics Centre, Oxford) “Aquinas as an Advocate of Abortion? The Appeal to Thomas Aquinas in Contemporary [...]
Modernism, Christianity, and Apocalypse
Modernism, Christianity, and Apocalypse (18-20 July 2012) A conference organised by the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Bergen, Norway; funded by the Bergen Research Foundation through the ‘Modernism and Christianity’ research project. The modernist imperative ‘Make it new!’ posits a break with traditional artistic forms, but also with the entire mould of [...]
Conor Cunningham lectures on ‘Darwin’s Pious Idea’ at the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science & Religion
Conor Cunningham delivered a lecture on ‘Darwin’s Pious Idea’ at the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion in November. The lecture was recorded and may be viewed here: Link. [Note: You will need the latest version of Adobe Flash Player to watch this webcast.] The Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion conducts research [...]
Teaching and Studying Religion: Choices and Challenges
Teaching and Studying Religion: Choices and Challenges BSA Meeting Room, Imperial Wharf, London 15 December 2011, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Religion is not a neutral subject. As with other significant constituents of identity, such as sexuality, gender, ethnicity, or class, the subject of ‘religion’ as a topic for study is not straightforward. And yet, [...]
Patrick Madigan, SJ: ‘Jesus and Lucifer’ Presentation [LINK FIXED]
As announced here, Patrick Madigan, SJ, editor of the Heythrop Journal of Philosophy and Religion, presented a paper entitled ‘Jesus and Lucifer: Rival Sons of the Father’ at Gainesville State College on 26 October. You may now watch a video of this presentation by following this link. [Note: click on the link to stream the [...]
