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Call for Submissions: The Arthur Peakocke Student Essay Prize
Science and Religion Forum The Arthur Peacocke Student Essay Prize Call for Submissions: ‘The Soul: Can the concept of the soul still have meaning? In memory of its founding President and former Chairman, the Revd Dr Arthur Peacocke, the Science and Religion Forum offers a prize for an essay directly relevant to the theme of […]
Reality-Making: Exploring Fundamentals in Metaphysics
From our neighbours in Department of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham: Registration is now open for: Reality-Making: Exploring Fundamentals in Metaphysics Nottingham, 10-12 July 2012. The conference will focus on recent debates in metaphysics surrounding questions of grounding, fundamentality, essentialism and the monism vs pluralism debate. Keynote speakers: Laurie Paul (UNC) Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers/ANU) […]
Varieties of Continental Thought and Religion
Varieties of Continental Thought and Religion June 14-17, 2012 Ryerson University Toronto, Canada An international conference exploring questions and issues concerning religion and secularism from the purview of major currents in modern and contemporary European thought and aesthetics. Conference and Registration Website: http://vctr.blog.ryerson.ca/ Keynote Address: John Caputo (Syracuse University) Plenary Speakers: Bettina Bergo (Université de […]
International Symposium on St Maximus the Confessor
International Symposium on Saint Maximus the Confessor KNOWING THE PURPOSE OF EVERYTHING THROUGH THE POWER OF THE RESURRECTION Belgrade, October 18-21, 2012 The conference is organized by the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of the University of Belgrade, in collaboration with the Orthodox Christian Studies Program of Fordham University, the Chair of Orthodox Theology of Münster […]
Truth and Mystery: Videos from Hollywood, Marion, and Desmond
Below are three videos of talks by Amy Hollywood, Jean-Luc Marion, and William Desmond, from the “Truth and Mystery” conference that took place on 12 April 2012. Amy Hollywood, “‘Thin Wings’: On Reading, can you buy zolpidem online Death, and Devotion” Jean Luc Marion, “Truth as a Saturated Phenomenon in St. Augustine” William Desmond, “Being […]
Theology Studio’s Podcast #2: “Breathing Space”
The second episode from Theology Studio is now posted on their website: In the second podcast, Tony Baker and Scott Bader-Saye talk about Public Theology: we discuss the ABC Religion and Ethics website, interview John Milbank (who says blogging is like a recreational drug for young theologians), wonder together what makes Rowan Williams Rowan Williams, […]
New from INTERVENTIONS: Metaphysics, by Adrian Pabst
Out today from Eerdmans published with the Centre of Theology and Philosophy as a part of the INTERVENTIONS series: Metaphysics: The Creation of Hierarchy by Adrian Pabst [Purchase US | Pre-order UK | Pre-order through Alban Books, Eerdman’s UK distributor] “This book does nothing less than to set new standards in combining philosophical with political […]
New & Notable: The Intimate Strangeness of Being by W. Desmond
The Intimate Strangeness of Being: Metaphysics after Dialectic by William Desmond [Purchase UK | Purchase US | Purchase from the CUA Press website] This book explores the contested place of metaphysics since Kant and Hegel, arguing for a renewed metaphysical thinking about the intimate strangeness of being. There is a mysterious strangeness to being at […]
CFP: Analytical Approaches to Thomas Aquinas
ANALYTICAL APPROACHES TO THOMAS AQUINAS CRACOW, 26th of MAY 2012 We have a pleasure to announce that on the 26th of May 2012 in Cracow, Poland it will take place an international conference on Philosophy an Theology devoted to the contemporary approaches to the work of saint Thomas Aquinas. We would like to encourage an […]
CFP: Borders, Boundaries and Transgressions
British Association for the Study of Religions Annual Conference University of Winchester 5th – 7th September 2012 The theme for the conference this year is Borders, Boundaries and Transgressions: within and between religions. Confirmed keynote speakers include Prof. Douglas Davies from the University of Durham and Prof. Douglas Pratt from the University of Waikato, New […]
Theology Studio
A new website project started by Anthony D Baker and Peter M Candler, Jr: We’ve devoted this space to the exploration of new issues and ideas in academic theology. We’ve begun putting together a library, posting interviews, profiling scholars in the field, and we’ve started our monthly podcast. Check in bi-weekly for our blog postings […]
Study Day: Un « vieux différend » : Le L/logos, le(s) L/livre(s), la Philosophie
Journée d’étude Un « vieux différend » : Le L/logos, le(s) L/livre(s), la Philosophie. Sur l’ouvert et l’origine Université de Louvain-la-Neuve Instituts de Philosophie (ISP) & Religions, Spiritualités, Cultures, Sociétés (RSCS) Samedi 28 avril 2012 – 9.00 à 18.30 Salle Jean Ladrière – Collège Mercier Programme 9.00 : Jean Leclercq (UCL) : Ouvertures. Logos, Mythos […]
Theatrical Theology: Registration and Additional Speakers
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for Theatrical Theology: Conversations on Performing the Faith, a conference sponsored by the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts at the University of St Andrews on 15-17 August, 2012. You can access the link to registration by visiting the conference website (www.theatricaltheology.co.uk) or simply […]
Notable: The Non-Philosophy Project: Essays by François Laruelle
The Non-Philosophy Project: Essays by François Laruelle by François Laruelle. Edited and introduced by Gabriel Alkon and Boris Gunjevic Available May 1, 2012. Save 20% when you purchase at the Telos Press website, www.telospress.com. Are the things of this world given to thought? Are things really meant to be known, to be taken as the objective manifestations […]
Blackfriars: The Gift of Desire & the Fear of Loss
The Gift of Desire & the Fear of Loss: Psychological, Philosophical, and Theological Perspectives Blackfriars, Oxford A reminder of the Aquinas Institute Colloquium in honour of Fergus Kerr OP on Saturday 12th May 2012 at Blackfriars cheap tramadol uk Hall, Oxford: 10.00am – 5.30pm Speakers so far confirmed include John Webster John Cottingham Jeff Green […]
SCPT Conference: Creation, Creatureliness, and Creativity
We are excited about our upcoming conference next month at Loyola Marymount University and hope you will join us. The full program can be found at: http://myweb.lmu.edu/btreanor/SCPT.html For more information, see below. Note that March 26 is the last day to get the pre-registration price of $75 for the conference, the special rate of $89 at the […]
Institute of Ideas Academy Scholarship Programme
Does the idea of grappling with the great existential questions of free will and determinism through the works of Homer and Sophocles, Thomas Paine and Herbert Spencer, Jane Austen and Dostoevsky, Martin Luther and Jean-Paul Sartre, appeal to you? Do you have a passion for the greatest works in the historical, philosophical, classical, and literary […]
Colloquium: Regarding the Other in Modern Jewish Thought
The Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations (Woolf Institute, Cambridge) is delighted to announce that it is hosting a colloquium, Regarding the Other in Modern Jewish Thought. The colloquium will be held on Wednesday, 27 June 2012 and take place at Lucy Cavendish College (Cambridge). The speakers at the colloquium will be: Aaron Rosen […]
Seminar: Living Liturgy – Living Languages
The Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain in conjunction with the Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham presents: “Living Liturgy – Living Languages: The Tasks of Translating the Liturgy” A one-day seminar, 10.30am-16.30pm, on Saturday 28th April 2012 Speakers: Prof P Bradshaw (Notre Dame), Dr T Whelan (Milltown), Dr J Day (Helsinki), Prof T O’Loughlin (Nottingham), […]
Notable Publications: Simpson, J. W. Wright, Myers, Collins, Betz
Deleuze and Theology, by Christopher Ben Simpson (T & T Clark, forthcoming September 2012) [Pre-order UK | Pre-order US] What can a theologian do with Deleuze? While using philosophy as a resource for theology is nothing new, Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) presents a kind of limit-case for such a theological appropriation of philosophy: a thoroughly “modern” […]
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