Department of Philosophy

Theology event archive 2015

Exploring British values – a religious perspective

Date
Tuesday 3 March
Description
The University Chaplaincy public lecture 'Is there such a thing as British values? A religious perspective' is taking place on Tuesday 3 March. The University will play host to prestigious speakers from various religious backgrounds to address values in multi-cultural Britain. Tickets still available.

Quakers Memorial Plaque and heritage trail unveiling

Date
Saturday 25 April
Description
Theology and Religious Studies students contributed to the creation of an audio trail about the history of the Quaker movement in Mansfield. The trail and accompanying plaque will be unveiled on Saturday 25 April.

Research Seminar

Date
Wednesday 20 May
Description
Prof Salvador Ryan, Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Faculty of Theology (St Patrick's College, Maynooth): 'Theologies of Christ's Passion and Death in the Religious Verse of Irish Bardic Poets'

Workshop: Re-reading Derrida's Faith and Knowledge

Date
Monday 1 - Tuesday 2 June
Description
This workshop will be the first event dedicated to exploring the implications of Derrida's landmark essay 'Faith and Knowledge', 20 years after its original publication.

Research Seminar

Date
Wednesday 10 June
Description
Prof Anthony Milton, Department of History (University of Sheffield): 'England's Second Reformation'

Alison Milbank talks Tolkien at the Gedling Book Festival

Date
Sunday 14 June
Description
Dr Alison Milbank is giving a talk at 3pm on Sunday 14 June at the Gedling Book Festival in Arnold about Tolkien's exploration of materialistic values in his epic fantasy novels.

CBET Community Study Day

Date
Saturday 26 September
Description
The Centre of Bible, Ethics and Theology (CBET) in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies hosts a Community Study Day: Why Study Biblical Languages?

CBET Postgraduate Study Day

Date
Saturday 3 October
Description
This study day looks to foster the aims of the Centre among postgraduate students from all areas of theological study, as well as from the broader academic community. In keeping with the conference theme, papers will interact with a biblical text(s) through the lens of the student's primary discipline.

Research Seminar

Date
Wednesday 14 October
Description
Professor Alan Ford (Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Nottingham): 'Love God and hate the Pope': the Church of Ireland and anti-Catholicism, 1600-2000

Research Seminar

Date
Wednesday 28 October
Description
Dr Chrysanthi Gallou (Department of Archaeology, University of Nottingham): Mycenaean skulls: "feeble heads" (?µe???? ?????a) or social actors in Aegean Late Bronze Age metaphysics and society (16th-12th c. BC)?

Research Seminar

Date
Wednesday 11 November
Description
The Revd Professor David Brown (Institute for Theology, Imagination & the Arts, St Mary's College, University of St Andrews)

CoTP Study Day - Radical Orthodoxy and Protestantism

Date
Saturday 21 November
Description
The Centre for Theology and Philosophy (CoTP) in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies hosts a Study Day: Radical Orthodoxy and Protestantism.

Research Seminar

Date
Wednesday 25 November
Description
Reverend Robin Griffith-Jones (Master of the Temple, Temple Church, London and King's College London): 'Magna Carta: Archbishop Langton and the Church's Finest Hour?' Stephen Langton sought in Magna Carta to realise in England a Deuteronomic, covenantal kingship like he had studied while exiled in Paris in the circle of Peter the Chanter. The cathedrals were the repositories of the 1215 exemplifications; and the Bishops were, from the 1230s, the Charter's effective guarantors. What patterns of principle and self-interest were in play, in Langton's and the Church's actions?

Research Seminar

Date
Wednesday 2 December
Description
Dr David Firth (Old Testament Tutor and Head of Research, St John's College, Nottingham): 'Aren't the Canaanites all destroyed? Inclusion of Canaanites and Exclusion of Israelites in Joshua'
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