Congratulations to our Theology and Religious Studies staff who have received grant funding from Widening Horizons in Philosophical Theology from the University of St Andrews.
Agata Bielik-Robson has been awarded a grant for their project titled Sacred secularity: towards a theology of the world which "concentrates on the continental philosophical theology of the worldliness, by adding a speculative dimension to the famous debate on secularisation, which began in the 50’s around Karl Löwith’s Meaning in History".
Adam Morton has also been awarded the grant for their project Prophecy and Orientation to Life which discusses "‘orientation to life’ as its central inquiry, examining the conditions under which abstraction takes place, and seeking after what it is for philosophical theology (as a species of human thought generally) to receive a renewed orientation to life and lived experience in the concrete, just as to God as the source of life and life itself".
Congratualtions too to the department of philosophy's Philip Goodchild who also received a grant for their project titled Transvaluation and the Practice of Metaphysics.
Widening Horizons in Philosophical Theology is an international initiative, led by Prof. Judith Wolfe and funded by the Templeton Religion Trust, which invests in the future of philosophical theology in the broadly continental tradition. It comprises a programme of research and events anchored at the University of St Andrews (Scotland) and extended by twelve independent research projects conducted by leading and emerging philosophers and theologians in the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, the USA, Canada and Australia.
Posted on Tuesday 7th September 2021