Wednesday, 30 November 2011
A Sydney psalm
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Praise the Lord!
Praise him, all you trees on my street;
Praise him you TV aerials bending in the wind;
Praise him, parked cars glistening with rain;
Praise him, screeching hissing trains;
Praise him, bright clouds reflecting Sydney's lights;
Praise him you possums fighting on the roof;
Praise him, noisy M2 traffic;
Praise him from the streets and from the station,
Praise him high and low.
Let everything that makes noise praise the Lord:
Praise the Lord!
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Princeton research fellowships: evolution and human nature
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This year at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, twelve resident scholars will be exploring the theme of evolution and human nature. The program will be launched by theological genius Sarah Coakley together with Melvin Konner, author of the massive new work on The Evolution of Childhood.
With support from the Templeton Foundation, CTI is also offering eight Research Fellowships of $70,000 and two Postdoctoral Fellowships of $40,000 – the deadline for applications is 30 November (sorry for the late notice – I've been away from computers lately!).
We welcome proposals to explore how the explosion of new research in evolutionary biology, psychology, and anthropology is challenging and changing our understanding of human nature and development, not least in relation to religion and theological accounts of the human condition. Our field of inquiry encompasses these evolutionary and human sciences, theological anthropology, practical theology, psychology of religion, religious studies, and the history and philosophy of science.
Labels: jobs, Princeton, Sarah Coakley, science
Related posts:Thursday, 17 November 2011
AAR in San Francisco: some theology panels
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So I'm off tomorrow for the AAR meeting in San Francisco – I look forward to seeing some of you there. My own paper explores the problem of time and history in Walter Benjamin, Jacob Taubes and early Christian asceticism – it's part of the following panel:
Explorations in Theology and the Apocalyptic: Jacob Taubes and Christian Theology
Sunday - 6:30 pm-9:00 pm
Room: MM-Sierra C
Christopher Morse, Union Theological Seminary, presiding
- Sam V. Adams: The Apocalyptic Cosmic Imaginary: Time and Space in Taubes, Moltmann, and Barth
- Ben Myers: Jacob Taubes: Apocalyptic Time and the Retreat from History
- David Congdon: Eschatologizing Apocalyptic: A Reconsideration of the Messianic Event
- Virgil Bower: Embodied Eschatology: Jacob Taubes on Paul, Marx and Kierkegaard
Here are some other panels that look promising. I hope at least to get along to some of these! If you know about any other interesting panels, or if you're presenting something yourself, let us know in the comments:
Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group and Pentecostal-Charismatic Movements Group: Holy Spirit, Power, and Feminist Subjectivity in Pentecostalism
Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Room: CC-3016
Sammy Alfaro, Grand Canyon University, presiding
- Janice Rees: Subject to Spirit: The Promise of Pentecostal Feminist Pneumatology and Its Witness to Systematics
- Saunia Powell: Pentecostal Articulations of Feminist Theory
- Lisa Stephenson: An Emerging Pentecostal–Feminist Theological Anthropology: North America and Beyond
- Pamela Holmes: Towards Useable Categories of “Women’s Experiences” and “Power”: A Canadian Pentecostal Feminist Considers the Work of Margaret Kamitsuka and Kwok Pui Lan
Friday - 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
Room: MM-Sierra H
Eastern Orthodox Studies Group: Syriac Patristic Literature and Spirituality
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Room: MM-Golden Gate C1
Paul Gavrilyuk, University of Saint Thomas, presiding
- Thomas Cattoi: A Garment of Metaphors? Incarnation as “Borrowed Speech” in the Poetry of Ephrem the Syrian
- David Belcher: The Veiled Mysteries in the Testamentum Domini
- Liza Anderson: The Interpretation of Dionysius the Areopagite in the Works of John of Dara
- Christopher Johnson: "Base, but Nevertheless Holy": Lessons in Liminality from Symeon of Emessa
Friday - 1:30 pm-3:30 pm
Room: IC-Pacific Terrace
This meeting of the Explorations in Theology and Apocalyptic working group will feature a paper presented by Peter Kline and Nathan Kerr, entitled "God." The presentation will be followed by a response from Phil Ziegler and open discussion.
Augustine and Augustinianisms Group: Lewis Ayres's Augustine and the Trinity and the History of Our Shifting Understandings of the Christian Trinity
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Room: CC-3003
Paul R. Kolbet, Wellesley, MA, presiding
- Michel Rene Barnes, Marquette University
- John Slotemaker, Boston College
- Sarah Coakley, University of Cambridge
- Responding: Lewis Ayres, Durham University
Saturday - 10:00 am-12:00 pm
Room: HI-Golden Gate 1
Therese Lysaught, Marquette University, presiding
- Alan Padgett, Luther Seminary
- Danielle Nussberger, Marquette University
- Responding: Sarah Coakley, Cambridge University
Saturday - 6:30 pm-9:00 pm
Room: PW-Sutro
Doug Harink, King’s University College, presiding
- Joel Marcus, Duke University
- Ched Myers, Bartemaeus Co-operative Ministries
- Craig Keen, Azusa Pacific University
- Laura C. Sweat, Seattle Pacific University
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Room: MM-Yerba Buena 10
Douglas Hedley, University of Cambridge, presiding
- John Dillon, Trinity College, Dublin
- John Kenney, Saint Michael's College
- John Bussanich, University of New Mexico
- Sara Rappe, University of Michigan
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Room: CC-2011
George Hunsinger, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding
- Matthew Puffer: Revisiting Karth Barth's Ethics of War
- Jessica De Cou: “Serious” Questions about “True Words” in Culture: Against Dogmatics IV/3 as the Source for Barth's Theology of Culture
Friday - 1:00 pm-3:00 pm
Room: MM-Pacific H
Karl Barth Society Of North America
Book Panel Discussion: Paul D. Molnar, Thomas F. Torrance: Theologian of the Trinity
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Room: CC-3005
George Hunsinger, Princeton Theological Seminary, presiding
- Gary Deddo, InterVarsity Press
- Ivor Davidson, University of St. Andrews
- Alan J. Torrance, University of St. Andrews
- Responding: Paul D. Molnar, St. John's University, New York
Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Room: MM-Sierra K
Paul R. Kolbet, presiding
- Stephanie Frank: Using Theology to Undo Theology: Mauss's Subversion of Augustinian Moral Psychology in The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies
- Matthew Drever: Reassessing Augustine’s Anthropology in Light of Recent Scholarly Trends
- Jeffrey McCurry: De- and Re-centering Augustine: A Nietzschean Reading of Confessions beyond Platonism
- Sean Larsen: Augustine for Denaturalized Societies: Two Types of Decentered Augustinianisms
Sunday - 1:00 pm-3:00 pm
Room: HI-Continental Ballroom 2
Joel Scandrett, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, presiding
- Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University
- Vigen Gurioian, University of Virginia
- Respondent: Peter Leithart, New Saint Andrews College
Labels: conferences
Related posts:Wednesday, 16 November 2011
Another pile of doodlings
Posted by Ben Myers 4 comments
Labels: doodlings, humour, Kim Fabricius
Related posts:Friday, 11 November 2011
The icon of the Holy Cross: 15 glances
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Labels: art, cross, Eastern Orthodoxy, icons
Related posts:Sunday, 6 November 2011
The St Paul's Cathedral hornet's nest
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- Rowan Williams: "The Church of England and the Church Universal have a proper interest in the ethics of the financial world and in the question of whether our financial practices serve those who need to be served - or have simply become idols that themselves demand uncritical service."
- John Milbank: "And while very many London clerics over the years have made an honourable social witness, the fact is that the higher echelons of the London diocese have tended to be complicit with just this flummery and too much in love with a power that they can only touch through its trappings. Indeed, it is this sham ritual that has frequently blinded them to genuine symbolic resonance. And now this inherited blindness is exposed for the world to see – a most spectacular blindness.
- Luke Bretherton: "For what is a Cathedral meant to be but a place where people can come and experience a different time and space, and can live, if only for a moment, in a vision of a different future, and thereby have reality re-framed?"
Labels: current affairs, John Milbank, Rowan Williams
Related posts:Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Robert W. Jenson, Lutheran Slogans: Use and Abuse
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Labels: book reviews, Robert W. Jenson
Related posts:Tuesday, 1 November 2011
The Melbourne Cup and animal ethics: just a bloody punt
Posted by Ben Myers 12 comments
Labels: animals, Australia, current affairs, ethics, Karl Barth
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