Announcements
Darwin’s Pious Idea announced by Eerdmans
Eerdmans Publishing Company has announced Conor Cunningham’s Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong (forthcoming in the Interventions series Fall 2010). Below is a sampling of endorsements. (Remaining blurbs can be found here.) “This work of stunning scientific erudition and critical insight differs from the common polemics with Dawkins’ and [...]
Did Darwin Kill God? receives Merit Award
RELIGIOUS TELEVISION AWARDS 2010 ‘On 25th May 2010 the Rt Revd Nick Baines presented 4 awards at Lambeth Palace. Roger Bolton, chair of the judging panel, announced the winners.’ [source] From the speech by Roger Bolton: We decided to give the second of our TV merit awards to a very different sort of programme. For BBC [...]
Official Statement from the Centre on the Closure of the Middlesex Philosophy Department
From the director of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy, Professor John Milbank: The Middlesex Philosophy Department has the full and unqualified support of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy at the University of Nottingham on account of the excellence of its work which arguably sets the highest standards within contemporary British philosophical reflection. We [...]
Middlesex University Shamefully Cuts Philosophy Department
This week the administration at Middlesex University has made a decision to cut the entirety of their highest-rated department: their philosophy department including all undergrad and graduate (MA/MPhil/PhD) programmes. The following is an announcement letter from Peter Hallward, Peter Osborne, and Stella Sandford: Dear colleagues, Late on Monday 26 April, the Dean of the School of Arts [...]
Grandeur of Reason now available
Now available for purchase from the Veritas series is the volume: The Grandeur of Reason: Religion, Tradition and Universalism, edited by Peter M. Candler, Jr. and Conor Cunningham, with a foreword by Angelo Cardinal Scola. The essays contained in this collection arose out of the conference of the same name which took place in Rome, [...]
Call for Papers: Theology of Creation Conference
Green as a Leaf: Renewing a Theology of Creation Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire, 16-19 September 2010 Keynote speakers: Simon Conway Morris, Michael Northcott, John Rodwell, John Milbank, Simon Oliver, Alison Milbank, Margaret Barker Call for Papers Often today debates about our policy towards the environment are purely reactive to events or to the current perceived risk [...]
Howard V. Hong dies at age 97
Howard V. Hong, Professor Emeritus at St. Olaf College and translator of Kierkegaard’s corpus (along with his late wife Edna H. Hong), died this week. He was 97. A memorial service will be held at St. Olaf Saturday, March 27, at 11 a.m. in Boe Memorial Chapel. Link to news story Link to official announcement [...]
Edward Schillebeeckx Essay Prize
Tijdschrift voor Theologie organizes, in cooperation with the Edward Schillebeeckx Foundation, a biennial essay contest for young theologians and religious studies scholars (maximum age of contestants: 35). This prize has been named after the recently deceased theologian Edward Schillebeeckx (1914-2009), founder of the Tijdschrift voor Theologie in 1961. 2010 will be the first time this [...]
Forthcoming in the Veritas series
Five new books are forthcoming in the Veritas series in 2010, to be published by SCM Press in association with the Centre of Theology and Philosophy: The Grandeur of Reason: Religion, Tradition and Universalism, edited by Peter M. Candler Jr. and Conor Cunningham Phenomenology and the Holy: Religious Experience after Husserl, by Espen Dahl Languishing [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
New Veritas Volumes
The Veritas series page has been updated to reflect the addition of three new works. The first is for a volume just-released: J. P. Moreland’s The Recalcitrant Imago Dei: Human Persons and the Failure of Naturalism. [Order UK] [Order US] Endorsements: “J. P. Moreland’s new book is a tour de force. In six clear, concise [...]
