The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster. Human beings are capable of the most amazing acts of heroism, of courage and of fortitude. The heroic achievements of others challenge us and can encourage us to believe that we might be capable of more than we had ever imagined. Read the sermon.

Professor Dame Averil Cameron FSA FKC, Former Warden of Keble College, Oxford. From the Battle of the Milvian Bridge (AD 312) to the twenty-first century.

The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster. Thank God for the raggedy and fearful band; may God bless us and empower us too, however raggedy and fearful we each may feel, to believe and trust in the love of God that conquers everything. Read the sermon.

Vernon White, Canon Theologian. To hold together experiences of a personal God with concepts of an infinite and eternal God can lead to intellectual and imaginative paralysis. The puzzling and fragmented life we experience in late-modernity can do the same. Christian tradition has always acknowledged this as a necessary mystery. This final lecture explored how understanding of God, and our experience of God, must embrace such mystery. 

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Vernon White, Canon Theologian. What happens when personal experiences of God displayed in the scriptures are subjected to philosophical scrutiny? Philosophical theology has tried to relate these experiences to other demands of the religious and intellectual life: notions of infinity, eternity, and perfection. Must these concepts also belong to our picture of God? This second lecture explored these wider themes. 

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