2012
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23 February 2012 06:15pm
History and Eternity: Signs of transcendence: the beyond in the ordinary
The first of three Lent lectures in the History and Eternity series by Canon Vernon White on the possibilities of believing in life beyond death.
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01 March 2012 06:15pm
History and Eternity: Images of resurrection: time, space & bodies in eternity?
The second of three Lent lectures in the History and Eternity series by Canon Vernon White on the possibilities of believing in life beyond death.
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08 March 2012 06:15pm
History and Eternity: Transforming the present: future hope in the here & now
The third of three Lent lectures in the History and Eternity series by Canon Vernon White on the possibilities of believing in life beyond death.
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17 April 2012 06:15pm
Christian Faith and Public Policy: Faith, Reason and Science in the public arena
Exploring issues of faith and public policy. This first lecture concentrated on the arguments of those who claim that since religious claims are not capable of being subjected to public scientific scrutiny they should play no part in debates in the public realm.
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24 April 2012 06:15pm
Christian Faith and Public Policy: Faith, Gender and Equality
Exploring issues of faith and public policy. This second lecture looked at the highly contentious area of approaches to gender, sexuality and equality and the attitudes of faith communities to issues of this sort and whether any specific attention should be paid to them.
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01 May 2012 06:15pm
Christian Faith and Public Policy: Faith and the Constitution
Exploring issues of faith and public policy. This final lecture will concentrate on the issue of whether or not the law should make accommodation for religious beliefs and practices or whether it should deal with each person equally irrespective of conscientious claims. This issue will also involve taking up the question of whether religious claims are in some sense special and if they are whether this should be the basis of legal privileges.
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10 May 2012 06:15pm
27th Eric Symes Abbott memorial lecture: Mis-establishment
Locating, and Re-locating, the Church of England.
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17 October 2012 06:15pm
Faith & Secularism in Education
This lecture explored educational approaches that encourage respect and critical dialogue between religious and secular positions.
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24 October 2012 06:15pm
Faith & Secularism in Law and Justice
The lecture explored both the tensions and the various means of accommodation.
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31 October 2012 06:15pm
Faith & Secularism in Christian Belief
This lecture aruged for the irrationality of a purely science-based belief system, and for the importance of cultivating a spirituality which can unite scientific, moral, liberal, and humane attitudes, and in which faith and critical enquiry overlap and complement one another.
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14 November 2012 06:15pm
Faith & Secularism: The Moral Resourcing of the Nation - dialogue and debate
Can faith and secular work together to renew our moral resources? An agnostic professor of philosophy and a radical orthodox professor of theology debated the issues.