Research seminars and conferences - Theology and Religious Studies

Dr Joel D.S. Rasmussen, Mansfield College, Oxford

Kant and The Conflict of the Faculties, Reconsidered

Dr Matthew R. Anderson, Concordia University, Montreal

Unsettled Pilgrimage: Walking as First Steps to Indigenous-Settler Reconciliation in Canada’s West

Dr Cat Quine, University of Nottingham

From Worshipped to Worshippers:The Host of Heaven and Developing Monotheism

Dr David Emerton, Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham

Mis-Locating the Church: Bonhoeffer and Third Article Ecclesiology

Dr Sean Ryan, University of Roehampton

Visualising the Divine Dwelling: Tent and Temple Imagery in the Apocalypse and the Venerable Bede

Dr Meredith Warren, University of Sheffield

Tasting Death: Sensory Metaphors & Other Worlds

Luke Hopper, Azhar Majoth and Arman Shokhikyan, all University of Nottingham

A medley of three papers by Postgraduate Researchers

Dr Matthew Anderson, Concordia University, Montreal

Paul and the Eschatological Pilgrimage of the Gentiles

Dr Luke Hopper, University of Nottingham

Coronation Ritual in the Hebrew Bible

Professor Hugh Houghton, University of Birmingham

The Old Latin Translation of the Bible: Its Sources and Significance

Professor Alec Ryrie, University of Durham

The Intended Reformation: Unbelief, the Battle for Credulity and its Consequences in the Reformation Age

Professor Jorgen Nielsen, University of Birmingham

In Europe, who is a Muslim?

Dr Livnat Holtzman, Bar-Ilan University

The Prophet and the Throne: An Anthropmorphic Tradition in the Public Sphere

Professor Richard Bell, University of Nottingham

Studying Wagner’s Pantheon of Gods in the Ring Cycle: A Way of Doing Christian Theology

Professor Michael Snape, University of Durham

Parsons and Fliers: The First World War and the Origins of RAF Chaplaincy

Dr Erich Groat

Call It One: at the intersection of linguistics, mathematics, and theology

Katrina Wilkins, University of Nottingham

Esther, Ælfric, and Character: The Bible in Anglo Saxon England

Dr Stuart Bell, Durham University and Professor Tom O'Loughlin, University of Nottingham

From Messines Ridge to Moltmann: Studdert Kennedy and a Suffering God after a century

Jonny Rowlands, University of Nottingham

Reception History and the Future of New Testament Studies

Dr Matthew Novenson, University of Edinburgh

Whoever thought that a person is justified by works of the law? An ancient idea in search of a proponent

Tim Murray

The New Testament and the Welfare State

Dr Mary Cunningham, University of Nottingham

"Garden without Seed": The Virginal Body of Mary, the Theotokos, in the Eastern Christian Tradition

Lavinia Cerioni

Christological Observations on Logion 114 of the Gospel of Thomas

Yulia Rozumna

Were St Basil's Words a "Betrayal of Faith" concerning the Holy Spirit? His ways of arguing for the Divinity of the Spirit 

Dr David Gehring, University of Nottingham

Lutheranism in Elizabethan England

Dr Richard Todd, University of Birmingham 

Contrasting approaches to scriptural anthropomorphism in medieval Islam: from Ibn Furak’s Ash’ari theology to Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi’s Sufi hermeneutics

Dr David Shepherd, Trinity College Dublin 

Blessed are the peacemakers: the depiction of Jesus in American and German cinema before and after the Great War

Dr Simeon Zahl, University of Nottingham

Devices and Desires: Affect Theory and the Plausibility of Sin in Late Modernity

Professor James Crossley, St Mary’s University, Twickenham

The Bible and Religion in English Political Discourse: Has anything changed?

Professor Todd Landman, Pro-vice chancellor, University of Nottingham 

Rigorous Morality: What states ought and ought not do to the (non-)citizens

Professor Susan Docherty, Newman University, Birmingham 

Rewriting the Exodus Narratives in a Hellenistic Context: A Model for Cultural and Religious Integration?

Dr Doug Ingram, University of Nottingham 

What’s “good” in Ecclesiastes?

Dr Peter Darby, University of Nottingham

Prefatory Texts and Prefatory Images in the Codex Amiatinus

Revd Karen Gardiner, University of Nottingham

Alice’s Adventures in Eternity

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Revd Gabrielle Thomas, University of Nottingham

Gregory Nazianzen: Interpreting the Human Eikon of God Literally as a Physical Bearer of God’s Presence

Professor George Pattison, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow

Oblivion, Memory and Hope: Rethinking the Eternal

Dr Alison Milbank, Department of Theology, University of Nottingham

Reformation Anthropology and the Gothic Double/Doppelgänger

Dr Jonathan Tallant, Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham

The Varieties of Presentism: An Opinionated Introduction to Some Issues in the Philosophy of Time

Professor Joachim Schaper, School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, University of Aberdeen

Monotheism, violence, and the "better angels of our nature”

Dr Rob Lutton, Department of History, University of Nottingham

Charisma and Routinization in the Cult of the Holy Name of Jesus in Late medieval England

Professor Alan Ford (Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Nottingham):

‘Love God and hate the Pope’: the Church of Ireland and anti-Catholicism, 1600-2000

Dr Chrysanthi Gallou (Assistant Prof in Aegean Archaeology, Co-Director of the Centre for Spartan & Peloponnesian Studies, Department of Archaeology, University of Nottingham):

Mycenaean skulls: “feeble heads” or social actors in Aegean Late Bronze Age metaphysics and society (16th-12th c. BC)?

The Revd Professor David Brown (Institute for Theology, Imagination & the Arts, St Mary's College, University of St Andrews):

Revelation that goes beyond the strictly historical: three contemporary approaches assessed.

Reverend Robin Griffith-Jones (Master of the Temple, Temple Church, London and Senior Lecturer in New Testament Studies, King’s College London):

Magna Carta: Archbishop Langton and the Church’s Finest Hour?

Dr David Firth (Old Testament Tutor and Head of Research, St John’s College, Nottingham):

Aren’t the Canaanites all destroyed? Inclusion of Canaanites and Exclusion of Israelites in Joshua

Professor Judith Lieu, Lady Margaret’s Professor of Divinity (University of Cambridge)
In Search of Marcion

Professor Jan Joosten, Regius Professor of Hebrew (University of Oxford)
Biblical Rhetoric: A Trial Cut. Judah's Speech in Genesis 44:18-34

Dr Douglas Hedley, Reader in Hermeneutics and Metaphysics, Faculty of Divinity (University of Cambridge)
Image and Imagination: The Problem of Idolatry

Dr Paul Tyson, Honorary Fellow of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy (University of Nottingham)
Kierkegaard; A Christian Platonist for the Present Age

Dr Andrew Davison, Starbridge Lecturer in Theology and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Divinity (University of Cambridge)
Recalling Causes: Retrieving Formal and Material Causation

Special seminar on Interreligious Dialogue in association with the International Rosenzweig Society.

• Prof Ephraim Meir (Bar Ilan University)
  Franz Rosenzweig in the Perspective of Interreligious Theology
• Prof Hans-Christoph Askani (University of Geneva)
  Rosenzweig’s and Buber’s Dialogical Thinking and the Dialogue between Religions

Moderated by Prof Robert Gibbs (University of Toronto) and Prof Agata Bielik-Robson (University of Nottingham)

Professor Salvador Ryan, Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Faculty of Theology (St Patrick's College, Maynooth)
Theologies of Christ's Passion and Death in the Religious Verse of Irish Bardic Poets

Professor Anthony Milton, Department of History (University of Sheffield)
England's Second Reformation

Dr Jon Hoover (University of Nottingham)
Is Ibn Taymiyya’s theology corporealist?

Dr Petra Carlsson Redell (University of Uppsala)
Foucault, Manet and the invisible

3 December 
Hemsley B7, 4pm

Professor Peter Marshall (University of Warwick)
After Purgatory: Death and Remembrance in the Reformation World

Professor Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr (University of Jena)
Which Jesus are we preaching about? Some considerations following Martin Kähler

Philosophical Marranos: Open Idiom and Secret Meaning in Modern Jewish Philosophy

A liturgical Reading of Dionysios the Areopagite