Department of Theology and Religious Studies seminar programme

Stuart Weeks (Senior Lecturer, Durham University)

'Fear God and Keep His Commandments': Could Qohelet Have Said That?

Casey Strine (Lecturer in Hebrew Bible, King's College, London)
Christopher M. Hays (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Theology, University of Oxford)

When the Son of Man Didn't Come: A Constructive Proposal Regarding the Delay of the Parousia

Cancelled.

Karen Wenell (Lecturer in New Testament and Theology, University of Birmingham)

Motion and Performance of the Kingdom of God: A Methodological Consideration of the basileia tou theou

Krisztina Szilagyi (Research Fellow of Oriental Studies, Trinity College, Cambridge)

Tales of the Prophet's Death: Shaping Muhammad's Literary Images in Europe, 100 - 1800

Dr Monica White

'The Cult of Constantine in Kievan Rus: Religious and Social Insights.'

This seminar will take place in room A19, Trent Building

 Dr Julia Barrow (History)

'Bede's Wise and Foolish Virgins: Streanæshalch and Coldingham'

This seminar will take place in the Conference Suite, Hemsley Building

Firth Lectures

Terry Eagleton

'Culture and the Death of God'

Adam Lipszyc (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Science)

'The Time of the Poem: Poetry as Messianic Action in Paul Celan's Meridian'

Philip Esler (Principal, St Mary's University College, London)

'Reading Old Testament Narrative With Its Ancient Audience: An Anthropological Approach'

Yvonne Sherwood (Professor of Bible, Religion and Culture, University of Glasgow)

'Blasphemy and the Pieties of Tolerance: The "Secularisation"'

Ralph McMichael (Executive Director, Centre for the Eucharist)

'The Eucharist: the Paradigm that Does not Shift'

David Thomas (Professor of Christianity and Islam, University of Birmingham)

'The Islamic Construction of Christianity: A Channel and Obstacle to Understanding'

Graham Twelftree (Distinguished Professor of New Testament, Regent University)

'St Paul and the Miraculous'

Daniel H.Weiss (Polosky-Coexist Lecturer in Jewish Studies, University of Cambridge)

''Where man calls, God opens an ear': Franz Rosenzweig, divine attributes, and the anti-theoretical style of the Hebrew Bible'

Alastair Logan (Honorary University Fellow, University of Exeter)

'Constantine, the Liber-Pontificalis and the Christian Basilicas of Rome'

Ben Quash (Professor Christinaity and the Arts, Kings College, London)

'Receptions and Abductions: The Holy Spririt and an English Theological Tradition'

Annual Bonaventure Lecture

Paul Murray (Durham)

'The Relevance of Medieval Theology to the Contemporary Task of Ecclesiology in Practice'

Aaron Milvac (Vice-President, Catherine of Siena Virtual College)

'The Mission of Jesus and the Father within the Didache's Way of Life'

The Centre for Music on Stage and Screen (MOSS)

Richard Bell (Theology and Religious Studies, Nottingham)

'O torment of Love': Sex, Sin and Suffering in Wagner's Parsifal

Hannah Hunt (Senior Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies and Reader in Eastern Christianity, Leeds Trinity University College)

'Spiritual direction: a desert practice for the modern world'

Professor Tessa Rajak (University of Reading)

''Mother of the Nation', 'Ark of Noah': the mother's divided self in the Maccabaean martyrologies'

Gerard Loughlin (Durham)

'Nuptial Mysteries'

Lara Pitsitck (Hope College, Michigan)

'The Importance of a Robust Theology of Christ's Descent into Hell'

Will Large (Gloucester)

'Remembering the Impossible Future: Kiekegaard and Social Capital'

Andrew Pinsent (Oxford)

'Aquinas, Autism and the Second Person: A new account of Aquinas' Virtue Ethics'

Lydia Jaeger (Institut Biblique de Nogent)

'Against Physicalism-plus-God: how creation accounts for divine action in the world'

Professor Sarah Coakley (Norrise-Hulse Professor, Cambridge)

'Eastern 'Mystical Theology' or Western 'Nouvell Theologie'? On the Comparative Reception of Ps-Dionysius in Lossky and de Lubac'

Professor Henri Gagy (Insitut Catholique)

'Where have all the great theologians gone?'

Dr Christian Lange (Edinburgh)

'The here and hereafter in Islamic tradition'

Dr Andrea Russell (Nottingham)

'Richard Hooker: Beyond Certainty'