
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
The Faraday Institute for Science & Religion and The Darwin Festival in Cambridge present: Did Darwin Kill God? The BBC2 Documentary Introduced by the presenter Conor Cunningham Followed by questions and discussion 5.45pm, 7th July 2009 Full information available on the event poster here.
On the occasion of the publication of The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? (by John Milbank & Slavoj Žižek; Creston Davis, ed.) comes a public debate between John Milbank and Slavoj Žižek, which took place on 18 June 2009, chaired by Giles Fraser, vicar of Putney.. Some photographs, as well as an entire audio […]
Christian Social Teaching and the Politics of Money: An International Conference on Religion and the Recession 9 and 10 July 2009 Senate Chamber University of Nottingham The working hypothesis of the conference is that there is there is a ‘middle’ position between an exclusively religious and a strictly secular perspective: faith can lead to a […]
INSISTENCE OF THE THEOLOGICO-POLITICAL How and Why Did Modern Political Philosophy and Theory Become Engaged with the Theological? Time and place: June 11th – 13th 2009 Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki Finland Today it seems that Max Weber’s thesis of the ‘disenchantment of the world’ was too premature. Far from being in […]
‘A Secular Age’: Tracing the Contours of Religion and Belief Date: Monday 8th – Thursday 11th June 2009 Location: Mater Dei Institute of Education The conference will explore the way in which theology and philosophy, when placed in dialogue with the social sciences, can reinvigorate public discourse. Some of the themes which will be discussed […]
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 […]
Regent’s Park College Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture Darwin reconsidered: marking the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection The following lectures will be given at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays in Regent’s Park College, Pusey Street, Oxford. The lectures are open to the public. [PDF of conference poster] […]
The CENTRE of THEOLOGY and PHILOSOPHY, NOTTINGHAM and ST STEPHEN’S HOUSE, OXFORD present Returning to the Church Catholicity, Ecclesiology and the Mission of the Church of England Rogier van der Weyden, Seven Sacraments Altarpiece. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp Speakers include: John Milbank, Alison Milbank, Graham Ward, Alister McGrath, Michael Northcott, Jeremy Morris, Simon […]
SATURDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2008 Scripture and Liturgy in the Theology of Benedict XVI A conference with Aidan Nichols OP, Michael Waldstein, Scott Hahn, Adrian Walker This important theological conference with Dr Scott Hahn, the popular American writer and biblical scholar, which also features Dominican theologian Aidan Nichols, leading Biblical scholar Michael Waldstein, and Adrian Walker […]
At this year’s AAR in Chicago, a panel is being held on the recently-released Belief and Metaphysics volume in the Veritas series entitled “The Return of Metaphysics: A dialogue on the occasion of the publication of Belief and Metaphysics.” The panel is graciously sponsored by SCM Press‘ Veritas Series and The Centre of Theology and […]
This is the upcoming Centre of Theology and Philosophy conference called The Grandeur of Reason: Religion, Tradition and Universalism. If you’re interested in attending and/or presenting, we are now accepting reservations for the conference as well as paper cheap propecia tablets abstracts for panels. All the information you need is on the conference site, which […]
The Pope and Jesus of Nazareth 19 and 20 June 2008 The University of Nottingham, Nottingham Supported by the British Academy Click below for full details: The full Conference Poster A list of the Conference Speakers and Participants The Full Conference Programme
Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology 2008 Conference Postmodernism, Truth, and Religious Pluralism April 11-12 Gordon College Click here to download the full conference programme

(Sculpture by Sara Cunningham-Bell)