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 Perfection: The Emergence [...]

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: A Lesson in Heresy)
Round-table discussion: Philip Goodchild, [...]

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 vast [...]

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 which represent [...]

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, November [...]

“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 [...]

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 from all over the world to engage [...]

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 of the [...]

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.

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Endorsements:

“J. P. Moreland’s new book is a tour de force. In six clear, concise and tightly-argued chapters, [...]

BBC2 Documentary: Did Darwin Kill God?

Did Darwin Kill God?
Whilst this programme aired on 31 March 2009, this 1-hour documentary can now be watched here using the BBC iPlayer.
A new trailer for the documentary can be accessed here (2 min 16 sec).
The BBC’s Darwin Season: marking the life and work of Charles Darwin – highlights:
BBC Two
As many of you may be [...]

Future of Love Book Launch and Seminar

SCM Press and The Centre of Theology and Philosophy invite you to a
Book Launch and Seminar
Monday, 16 March 2009
4 pm – 7 pm
University of Nottingham Staff Club Lounge
The Future of Love: Essays in Political Theology
John Milbank, Professor in Religion, Politics and Ethics and Director of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy, will talk about his [...]

New book in the Illuminations series: The Theology of Food

The Theology of Food: Eating and the Eucharist, by Angel F. Méndez Montoya, published in the Illuminations series.
The links between religion and food have been known for centuries, and yet we rarely examine or understand the nature of the relationship between food and spirituality, or food and sin. Drawing on literature, politics, and philosophy as [...]

Two new books by John Milbank

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The Future of Love: Essays in Political Theology: “With a newly [...]

Centre News Items

The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? is a conversation between John Milbank and Slavoj Žižek (edited by Creston Davis) that “concerns the future of religion, secularity, and political hope in light of a monsterful event—God becoming human. For the first time since Žižek’s turn toward theology, we have a true debate between an atheist [...]

Nouveau livre d’Olivier Boulnois

À quoi servent les images ? Peuvent-elles nous faire accé der à l’essentiel ?
Olivier Boulnois, Au-delà de l’image, Une archéologie du visuel au Moyen Age, Ve-XVIe siè cle, Des Travaux/ Seuil, Paris, 2008, 496 p., + 8p. d’illustrations.
Cliquez ici pour voir la couverture du livre.

New Books by CoTP Staff and Members

        
[Click each book for more info]