Colin Gunton Lecture Day: Updated Programme

Here’s an updated timetable for next week’s Colin Gunton Lecture Day.

11.30–1.00: Two staff presentations (30 mins each with 30 mins questions)

Susannah Ticciati
The Human Being as Sign in Augustine’s De doctrina christiana

Oliver Davies
Christ, Self and History: Theological Anthropology in the Making


2.20-5.00: PhD Student Presentations in two groups (20 mins with 15 mins questions; order and groups TBC)

John de Jong
George MacDonald and Calvin: Analogue and Digital Truth

Clare Dowding
‘Of the wordes of Jesu’: Meditations on the Seven Last Words in Symon Appulby’s The Fruyte of Redempcyon

Keyvan Cyrus
A Theological Anatomy of the Priestly Identity in the light of the Old Testament

Stephen Burnhope
Wanted – Dead or Alive? A Reconsideration of Metaphor and the Actuality of Atonement

Allison Saunders
Kant and Augustine on Evil: A Reconciliation

Jane Petkovic
Honouring the body in James McAuley’s Pieta and Simone Mangos’ When She Was Thirteen.

Elizabeth Joy
The divisive and uniting forces of the ‘body’ of Brahma and Christ: Towards constructing a ‘Transforming Theology’ focussing on the dynamic and positive meaning of ‘Dalit’

Karsten van Sander
The Relationship between Providence and Personhood in Schleiermacher


5.30- 7.00 Christoph Schwöbel (1 hour + 30 mins questions)

‘No man is an island’. Colin Gunton’s Theological Anthropology and John Donne’s Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions.

Judging by this programme, I’d say that this is looking to be a very promising day and well worth £15.00. If you haven’t booked yet, do so by contacting Jacob Philips. And hurry!