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Laruelle One-day Conference
Information on the one-day conference with François Laruelle has been updated with complete details on the day. From the Event Description: This one-day conference is orientated around introducing Laruelle’s non-philosophy. It includes an accessible introduction to the project, a roundtable discussion with theologians and philosophers, and a keynote address by Laruelle that will detail the […]
John Milbank and Phillip Blond in the Guardian
John Milbank and Phillip Blond have co-authored a piece in the Guardian entitled “No equality in opportunity” with the lede of ‘By synthesising old Tory and traditional left ideas a genuinely egalitarian society can be achieved’.
Department of Theology and Religious Studies Seminar Schedule
University of Nottingham Department of Theology and Religious Studies Seminar Programme 2009-10 SEMESTER 2 ALL SEMINARS AT 4.00 PM Refreshments will be available from 3.30pm All attending are invited to join us for drinks in the University Staff Club afterwards 3 February 2010 Professor Mark MacIntosh (Durham University) The Opening Mind: The theology of faith […]
Prabhu Lecture time change
Today’s CoTP lecture by Joseph Prabhu on “Gandhi’s Economic Philosophy and Its Debt to Ruskin” (previously announced here) has been moved from 4pm to 5pm today.
Keynote Lecture by François Laruelle
Note: Please see this post for the finalized information on this event, including full conference programme, and details on registration. François Laruelle’s Non-Philosophy: Theology,Gnosticism, and Theory A One-day Workshop ‘Principles of a Generic Ethics’ – François Laruelle (Université de Paris X, Nanterre) An Introduction to Non-Philosophy — Anthony Paul Smith (translator of Laruelle’s Future Christ: […]
2010 Firth Lectures
“Reformation, Counter-Reformation and the English Nation” Wednesday 10 February 2010 5.30pm “Reformation Unravelled?: Facts & Fictions” Thursday 11th February 2010 5.30pm Professor Eamon Duffy Professor of the History of the Christian Religion, University of Cambridge Lecture given at the University of Nottingham Room A48 Sir Clive Granger University Park ADMISSION FREE NO TICKETS REQUIRED Download […]
TELOS Essay Prize Competition
From the latest TELOS Press e-mail message: In partnership with the Telos Institute, Telos is launching a new annual essay prize competition, inviting graduate students and post-graduate researchers in the humanities to tell the world about their work. The competition offers young scholars the opportunity to be published in one of the leading international interdisciplinary […]
Forthcoming from Eerdmans
From Oliva Blanchette, author of The Perfection of the Universe According to Thomas Aquinas: A Teleological View, Philosophy of Being: A Reconstructive Essay and translator of Blondel’s L’Action (1893), comes Maurice Blondel: A Philosophical Life (Eerdmans, 29 April 2010, 840 pp). Publisher’s description: French philosopher Maurice Blondel (1861–1949) had a tremendous impact on both philosophy […]
The Rose on the Ash-Heap: Lectures and a Dramatization
A dramatisation with harp music of Owen Barfield’s 1929 novella: The Rose on the Ash-Heap Thursday 25th March 2010 1.30 pm to 5.30 pm St. Ethelburga’s, 78 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AG The Rose on the Ash-Heap is the epilogue from English People -Barfield’s ambitious unpublished novel of English life between the First and Second World […]
CoTP January Lecture
Gandhi’s Economic Philosophy and Its Debt to Ruskin Professor Joseph Prabhu Monday, 25th January 4.00pm A lecture at the Staff Club on the University Park campus Download a PDF of the flyer here.
2010 TELOS Conference: From Lifeworld to Biopolitics: Empire in the Age of Obama
The 2010 TELOS Conference January 16, 2010 New York City From Lifeworld to Biopolitics: Empire in the Age of Obama In the context of a dramatic reorganization of the relationships among state, market, and society, the 2010 Telos Conference will turn its attention to competing accounts, both theoretical and empirical, of the new modalities of […]
William Desmond to give 2010 Aquinas Lecture at the University of Dallas
“Analogy, Dialectic, and Divine Transcendence: Between St. Thomas and Hegel” William Desmond The Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Abstract: Hegel is often attacked for a philosophy of rational totality, but frequently his critics share his commitment to immanence and nothing but immanence. Speculative dialectic vis-à-vis divine transcendence has significance beyond Hegel for our contemporary philosophical […]
Publications of Note
Christianity and Contemporary Politics: The Conditions and Possibilities of Faithful Witness, by Luke Bretherton (to be published 19 January 2010) Book description: Relations between religious and political spheres continue to stir passionate debates on both sides of the Atlantic. Through a combination of theological reflection and empirical case studies, Bretherton succeeds in offering timely and […]
Modern Theology 25th Anniversary
The latest issue of Modern Theology is now available, and it is a special 25th-anniversary edition containing essays reflecting on the first 25 years of publication by Ken Surin (the original founding editor), Jim Fodor and William Cavanaugh, John Milbank, Kathryn Tanner, Nicholas Lash, Stanley Hauerwas, David Ford, L. Gregory Jones, John W. de Gruchy, […]
Returning to the Church 2010 Conference: Valuing Theological Education
St Stephen’s House, Oxford and the Centre of Theology and Philosophy, Nottingham Returning to the Church 2010 Valuing Theological Education 4-6 January 2010 St Stephen’s House, Oxford Speakers include: John Milbank, Graham Ward, Alister McGrath, Benedict Viviano OP, Michael Northcott, Graham James, Stephen Platten. Click here for a full list of speakers. Contact andrew.davison@theology.ox.ac.uk For […]
John Milbank in the Guardian
John Milbank has an editorial piece up at the Guardian website entitled “For feminism and family” with the lede of “We need a radical feminism that ends women’s enslavement and allows them to be neither subordinate nor men writ large,” drawing upon both Marxism and Christianity in his analysis.
John Milbank on BBC Radio 4
John Milbank appears on this past week’s “Moral Maze” on the BBC Radio 4 in a discussion around science, buy cialis 200mg ethics, facts and values (starts minute 27:37). Michael Buerk chairs. With Michael Portillo, Matthew Taylor, Claire Fox, Clifford Longley.
Interview with Philip Goodchild about Theology of Money
Philip Goodchild has been interviewed here at the ROROTOKO website about his book Theology of Money, which is available this year in the US in the New Slant series (previously available through SCM for UK and worldwide).
New Release: Freedom Not Yet: Liberation and the Next World Order
Just released by Duke University Press in the New Slant series (eds. Philip Goodchild, Kenneth Surin, and Creston Davis) is Kenneth Surin’s Freedom Not Yet: Liberation and the Next World Order. Here is the book description: The neoliberal project in the West has created an increasingly polarized and impoverished world, to the point that the […]
New website, new features
As you can see, the Centre of Theology and Philosophy’s website has gone through a design overhaul. We are now happily on WordPress, so please update your RSS news feeds to this link. Amongst the updates for the site include: A revamped and much more comprehensive publications page. There are now nearly 200 publications added […]
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