2013
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28 February 2013 06:15pm
Drama and Dialogue: God in scriptural narrative
What sort of reality is God in the Christian tradition? The drama and dialogues of the scriptures present a picture of God as a communicative, personal, moral, agent: that is, a reality who addresses us, who causes things to happen in our world, and who give value to things in the world. This first lecture explored the plausibility and credibility of this sort of picture of God.
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07 March 2013 06:15pm
Transcendence and Perfection: God in classical orthodoxy
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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14 March 2013 06:15pm
Mystery and Play: God in mysticism and post-modernity
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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02 May 2013 06:15pm
28th Eric Symes Abbott memorial lecture: Constantine's Vision and the Church Today
Speaker: Professor Dame Averil Cameron FSA FKC, Former Warden of Keble College, Oxford.