Adam Morton
Upcoming Conference: The Nature of Experience
At the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at The Catholic University of America, there is a forthcoming conference entitled The Nature of Experience: Issues in Culture, Science, and Theology, which will be held December 3-5, 2009. For information about the Symposium, please call 202-526-3799 or contact information@johnpaulii.edu. Registration ends Friday, […]
“Did Darwin Kill God?” Syndication
Conor Cunningham’s BBC2 documentary “Did Darwin Kill God?” gets syndication on ABC Compass, and will air on 22 November 2009 at 22:10. For details click here.
Alison Milbank in the latest Mars Hill Audio Journal
Out today in the latest issue of the Mars Hill Audio Journal (#99), Ken Myers interviews Alison Milbank, discussing her book Chesterton and Tolkien as Theologians: The Fantasy of the Real. Alison Milbank, on how the fantasy writings of G. K. Chesterton and J. R. R. Tolkien are intended to reconnect readers with reality. The […]
CoTP Autumn 2009 Lectures
Two forthcoming lectures put on by the Centre of Theology and Philosophy this Autumn: “How to Prove the Existence of God: Some Remarks on Anselm’s Proslogion” by Dr Lydia Schumacher Tuesday 24th November 4:00 pm “Experience and Transcendence: A basic philosophical problem after Luhmann, Kierkegaard and German Early Romanticism” by Dr Johannes Hoff Friday 11th […]
Audio from the ‘Spinoza and Bodies’ Conference
At the “Spinoza and Bodies” conference held September 10-11 at the University of Dundee, Dr. Michael Mack and PhD candidate Anthony Paul Smith presented papers whose audio recordings may be listened to here, amongst other presenters at the conference. Michael Mack, “Spinoza and Freud, or how to be mindful of the mind” Anthony Paul Smith, […]
Bibledex
In a similar vein to the University of Nottingham’s Period Table of Videos, Brady Haran, in conjunction with our Department of Theology and Religious Studies, is now producing a series on the Bible dubbed Bibledex. There will be books on all 66 books of the Bible, and as the website states, they “are by no […]
Two Screenings of ‘Did Darwin Kill God?’ with Q&A with Conor Cunningham
On the 3rd and 4th of November, Conor Cunningham will be at St. Edward’s University and Baylor University, respectively, to screen the documentary “Did Darwin Kill God?” which he wrote and presented for BBC2. The Viewings will be accompanied by a Questions & Answers session afterward. Please click on the thumbnails below to view the […]
Michel Henry, Éditions de L’Âge d’Homme
Released this year is an edited volume by Jean Leclercq and Jean-Marie Brohm simply titled Michel Henry, Paris-Lausanne, Éditions de L’Âge d’Homme, 2009, 544 p. In addition to works by Michel Henry (including some previously unpublished) and an interview with Anne Henry and Jean Leclercq, there are contributions from Jean-Louis Chrétien, Jean Leclercq, Jean-Luc Marion, […]
Hauerwas and Hart in latest issue of Mars Hill Audio Journal
Out today in the latest issue of the Mars Hill Audio Journal (#98), Ken Myers has interviews with Stanley Hauerwas and David Bentley Hart. From the issue description: Stanley Hauerwas, on the public witness of Fr. Richard John Neuhaus and on why Neuhaus abandoned his 1960s radicalism to become a leading ‘theoconservative’. David Bentley Hart, […]
Book Releases
Off the presses this week: The Pope and Jesus of Nazareth: Christ, Scripture and the Church, a collection of essays from the conference of the same name held at the University of Nottingham in the summer of 2008. Published by SCM Press in conjunction with the Centre of Theology and Philosophy in the Veritas series, […]
New Distance Learning Programme launching in January 2010
University of Nottingham Centre of Theology and Philosophy New Programme launching in January 2010 MA in Systematic and Philosophical Theology by distance learning Course Director: Simon Oliver, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology Course Team: John Milbank, Conor Cunningham, Karen Kilby, Philip Goodchild, Aaron Riches, Jeff Wardle, and Tom O’Loughlin This new programme will enable students […]
Radical Orthodoxy Reader
Released in April is the Radical Orthodoxy Reader, edited by John Milbank and Simon Oliver. Book description: The Radical Orthodoxy Reader presents a selection of key readings in the field of Radical Orthodoxy, the most influential theological movement in contemporary academic theology. Radical Orthodoxy draws on pre-Enlightenment theology and philosophy to engage critically with the […]
Chris Simpson’s new book out today
I’ve just received word from Chris Simpson that his new book has arrived today. It is entitled Religion, Metaphysics, and the Postmodern: William Desmond and John D. Caputo, published by Indiana University Press (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion). The publisher’s description: William Desmond’s original and creative work in metaphysics is attracting more and […]
SCM Press sale on CoTP books
SCM Press is having a sale on CoTP-associated books, which lasts until 30 September 2009 : The Theology of Money (paperback), by Philip Goodchild (special sale price £13.50) Transcendence and Phenomenology (paperback), eds. Peter M. Candler, Jr. and Conor buy cheap levitra online Cunningham (special sale price: £28.00) Belief and Metaphysics (paperback), eds. Peter M. […]
The Pope and Jesus of Nazareth volume soon out in the Veritas series!
Due out at the end of September is the edited conference volume entitled The Pope and Jesus of Nazareth (eds. Adrian Pabst and Angus Paddison) based on the conference proceedings of the same name held at the University of Nottingham in the summer of 2008. Click here to pre-order from SCM Press. Details: The publication […]
Pabst in the Guardian: “Pakistan must confront Wahhabism”
Adrian Pabst’s latest piece in the Guardian: “Pakistan must confront Wahhabism: As the Saudi-financed Wahhabi Islam supplants the tolerant indigenous Sufi Islam, its violent creed is inspiring terrorism.”
Another article by Adrian Pabst in the Guardian
Adrian Pabst, a Leverhulme research fellow at the University of Nottingham in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies and a research fellow at the Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies, has published another piece in The Guardian entitled “Kirill is not the Kremlin’s man: Patriarch Kirill isn’t doing Russia’s bidding in Ukraine. What […]
Adrian Pabst in the Guardian
Adrian Pabst, a Leverhulme research fellow at the University of Nottingham in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies and a research fellow at the Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies, has published a piece in The Guardian entitled “Pope Benedict’s call for a civil economy: Instead of defending civil society in its current […]
Alex Andrews in the Guardian
Alex Andrews, a PhD candidate at the University of Nottingham in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, has published a piece in The Guardian entitled “Praying for a revolution in economics: Greenspan’s crisis of faith exposes the scientific veneer of economics for what it is, revealing what amounts to a religion.”
Books of Note
The Pure Society: From Darwin to Hitler, by André Pichot, translated by David Fernbach From the Verso website: As genetic manipulation comes to dominate medical science, a timely and trenchant history of eugenics How did the notions of “race” and “ethnic group,” under the cover of scientific legitimacy, get used for political ends? This work […]
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