What is Life?: Theology, Science, and Philosophy
(2010; Krakow, Poland)
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Christian Social Teaching and the Politics of Money: An International Conference on Religion and the Recession
(2009; Nottingham, UK)
Conference held 9 and 10 July 2009
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 strong notion of the common good and a belief that human behaviour, when disciplined and directed, can start to act more charitably. There can also be secular intimations of this: the more faith-inspired practices are successful even in secular terms (more equality, more consensus, more human happiness, a better ecology), the easier it will be for secular institutions to adopt such a regulatory framework without having fully to embrace its religious basis.
Speakers: Gabriella Berloffa, Phillip Blond, Luke Bretherton, Stratford Caldecott, Peter M. Candler Jr, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, Zaki Cooper, Jon Cruddas MP, Very Revd Dr Jeffrey Cuttell, Revd Dr Andrew Davison, Donal Dorr, Shahid Ebrahim, Giuseppe Folloni, Maurice Glasman, Philip Goodchild, Revd Dr John Hughes, Rt. Revd Dr John Inge, Dr Michael Mack, Archbishop Mons. Javier Martínez, John Médaille, John Milbank, Michael Northcott, James Noyes, Simon Oliver, Adrian Pabst, Ann Pettifor, David L. Schindler, Rt. Revd Dr Peter Selby, Neil Turnbull, Norman Wirzba, Stefano Zamagni, Paul Spencer Williams [to see more information about these speakers, click here]
The Conference poster can be found here.
The Grandeur of Reason: Religion, Tradition, and Universalism
(2008; Rome, Italy)
Semi-annual conference on 1st-4th September, 2008
Panels were held on: Metaphysics, Systematic Theology, Politics and Theology, Islam and Christianity, The Disenchantment of the Cosmos, Faith with/against Reason.
The CoTP accepted papers that cover any topic relevant to the conference theme, but was especially interested in questions of religion and empire, Christianity and Islam, humanism and universalism, the reunification of the Apostolic Churches, and Scripture and Metaphysics.
The CoTP is currently in the process of producing a volume of collected essays from this conference. It will be published in the Veritas series by SCM Press.
The Pope and Jesus of Nazareth
(2008; Nottingham, UK)
Conference held 19th and 20th June, 2008
The publication of the book Jesus of Nazareth on 16 April 2007 was an unprecedented event: never before had a reigning Pope published personal reflections on Jesus. Benedict XVI’s book engages not just with New Testament scholarship but also with fundamental methodological questions related to historical criticism.
The Pope and Jesus of Nazareth provides essays by some of the leading scholars in Britain, continental Europe and the USA to highlight the insights and limits of the Pope’s reflection on Jesus. Specifically, it engages with the book from critical, cross-disciplinary and different faith perspectives.
Contributors include: Richard Bell, Markus Bockmuehl, Peter Casarella, Roland Deines, Henri-Jérôme Gagey, Richard B. Hays, Fergus Kerr OP, Francisco Javier Martínez, John Milbank, R. W. L. Moberly, George Dennis O’Brien, Angus Paddison, Adele Reinhartz, Mona Siddiqui, and Olivier-Thomas Venard OP.
This volume is published by SCM Press and edited by Adrian Pabst and Angus Paddison.
Belief and Metaphysics
(2006; Granada, Spain)
Annual Conference 15th-18th September, 2006
‘Could it turn out that nobody has ever believed anything?’ (Paul Churchland)
The Centre of Theology and Philosophy, in partnership with the Instituto de Filosofía Edith Stein de Granada (www.if-edithstein.org), held its annual conference, over four days, in Granada, Spain, doing so under the invitation of Archbishop Javier Martínez.
Speakers included: Oliva Blanchette, Louis Dupré, Mark D Jordan, Merold Westphal, David Cooper, John Cottingham, E.J. Lowe, Rudi te Velde, David Bentley Hart, Ludger Honnefelder, David Burrell, Hent de Vries, Simon Conway-Morris, Charles Taliaferro, Michael Rea, and John Milbank.
The CoTP welcomed papers discussing any topic at the interface of belief and metaphysics, especially questions concerning the relation between belief and realism, in light of ontological naturalism, and scientistic reductionism, on the one hand, and cultural relativism and Postmodernism, on the other.
The CoTP produced a volume which collected twenty essays from this event in the Veritas series by SCM Press, edited by Peter M. Candler, Jr. and Conor Cunningham, and contains a foreword by Archbishop Javier Martínez.
Transcendence and Phenomenology
(2005; Nottingham, UK)
Annual conference 1st–2nd September, 2005
Guest Speakers include: Jean-Yves Lacoste, Laszlo Tengelyi, Anthony Steinbock, Paul Audi, Natalie Depraz, Jeff Bloechl, Jean Greisch, Richard Kearney, Rudi Visker, John Milbank, Emmanuel Falque, Ruud Welten, and Dermot Moran.
The CoTP welcomed the submission of abstracts on any topic involving phenomenology and, or transcendence. Especially those discussing the resistance phenomenology may offer to ontological reductionism, and those exploring the ‘turn to religion’, so-called, in the work of Michel Henry, Jean-Luc Marion, Paul Ricœur, Jean-Louis Chrétien, Stanislas Breton, and Emmanuel Levinas.
The CoTP produced a volume which collected twenty essays from this event in the Veritas series by SCM Press, edited by Peter M. Candler, Jr. and Conor Cunningham, and contains a foreword by Paul Cardinal Poupard.
