Seminars & Workshops

The MLitt main seminar provides opportunity for high-level discussion on the meeting of biblical studies and theology. We realise this cannot happen without the flourishing of the biblical studies and theology seminars (and conceivably the CSRP and ITIA seminars).

MLitt and PhD students working in our area will be encouraged to attend at least one of these, so that their biblical-theological endeavours can be informed by papers on e.g. text criticism/philosophical theology. As it happens some of the recent seminar papers have been ‘up our street’—Phil Ziegler’s ‘Eschatological Dogmatics’, Francis Watson’s ‘Reception of Albert Schweitzer in English’, Walter Moberly’s ‘Interpret the Bible Like any other Book? Requiem for an Axiom ‘.

We will also have occasional but regular visits of speakers in this area, as last year (2009-10) we had Bruce McCormack, John Franke and Markus Bockmuehl.

Seminar Programme Semester 2, 2011-2012

Friday March 9, 2012, 1400 – 1600, St Mary’s College Hall: Mark Bowald (Redeemer University College, Ontario). ‘Divine Rhetoric: The Trinity, Scripture, and Church Practices.’

Thursday March 15, 2012, 0930 – 1100, Senior Common Room: Michael Legaspi, Templeton Awardee. Lecture on his prize-winning The Death of Scripture and the Rise of Biblical Studies (New York-Oxford: OUP, 2010) and paper on ‘Wisdom in a modern philosophical environment.’

Thursday March 22, 2012, 0930 – 1100, St Mary’s College Hall: Rikk Watts, (Regent College, Vancouver). Title TBC

Friday April 13, 2012, 1400 – 1600, St Mary’s College Hall: Mark Gigniliat (Beeson Divinity School): ‘Theological Comment