Adam Morton
NDIAS Conference: Conceptions of Truth and the Unity of Knowledge
Conceptions of Truth and the Unity of Knowledge Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study 12-14 April 2012 This international conference, hosted by the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, will focus on the nature of truth. It is planned for April 12-14, 2012, on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. Leading experts will […]
Thiselton Conference – The Future of Biblical Interpretation
Thiselton Conference The Future of Biblical Interpretation: Responsible Plurality in Biblical Hermeneutics A one-day Festschrift conference to commemorate Thiselton’s contributions to theological scholarship and to celebrate his 75th birthday. 29 June 2012 University of Nottingham – Ancaster Hall Papers by: Stanley Porter Walter Moberl Richard Briggs Matthew Malcolm James Dunn Robert Morgan Tom Greggs Anthony […]
Forthcoming Events at the Aquinas Institute
Aquinas Colloquium – Participation and Analogy The Aquinas Institute At Blackfriars Oxford Saturday 3rd March 2012 10am-5pm Janet Martin Soskice ‘Naming God in Philo, Augustine and Aquinas’ David Burrell ‘Desire and the Semantics of Godtalk: Beyond a negative/positive polarity in analogical language’ Rudi te Velde ‘Questions on analogy/analogia entis‘ Stephen Mulhall ‘What is grammatical about […]
2012 Firth Lectures: Terry Eagleton, Live Stream today
The Firth Memorial Lectureship was founded by the Reverend John d’ewe Evelyn Firth in memory of his father, John Benjamin Firth, Historian of Nottingham and his mother Helena Gertrude Firth. The lecturer is appointed biennially by the Council of the University on the recommendation of the Senate of the University, and under the terms of […]
Notable Publication: Being Reconfigured
Being Reconfigured, by Ian Leask (Cambridge Scholars, 2011) Isbn: 1-4438-2551-4 [Purchase UK | Purchase US] Publication description: Being Reconfigured presents some of the most brilliant and audacious theses in recent phenomenological research. Challenging so much post-Heideggerian doxa, it argues against contemporary phenomenology’s denegation of Being, but suggests, as well, that phenomenology itself can provide a […]
British Academy: What it Means to be Human
What it Means to be Human: New Perspectives on the Boundaries of Human Nature A joint event hosted by the Presidents of the British Academy and the Royal Society Thursday, 8 March 2012 2.00pm – 6.00pm Seminar at the British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH The afternoon seminar will be hosted by […]
CFP: Theatrical Theology: Conversations on Performing the Faith
The Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts at the University of St Andrews is pleased to announce a conference on the theme Theatrical Theology: Conversations on Performing the Faith, held in St Andrews on 15-17 August 2012. Influenced and inspired by Hans Urs von Balthasar’s seminal work in The Theo-Drama, a growing number of […]
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 […]
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