The annual sermon preached in commemoration of John Mere will be given in St Bene't's Church at 11.45 a.m. on Tuesday, 23 April. A Sixteenth Century Esquire Bedell and also Registrary who was a member of King's and Corpus Christi Colleges, Mere left property in the Parish of St Bene't's, partly to endow a sermon in his memory on specified subjects and to be given by the Vice-Chancellor or a nominee. Certain University Officers and Parish Representatives receive token payments for attending, flowers are placed on Mere's gravestone and payments are also made to the inhabitants of the Almshouses of St Anthony and St Eligius.
This year, Dr Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft will preach on 'All men are one man and one man is all men'. An undergraduate at Sidney Sussex College and then a Research Student at Corpus Christi College, she is now a Bye-Fellow, Tutor and Director of Studies at Sidney Sussex, also a Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies at Lucy Cavendish College, and a Director of Studies at Corpus Christi. An Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity, she is a Teaching Associate for the Cambridge Foundation Year.
With interests focussed on late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Century intellectual history and the connections between theology, literature and philosophy, Ruth has published The Veiled God: Friedrich Schleiermacher's Theology of Finitude and more recently Victorian Encounters with the Bible and Antiquity: The Shock of the Old (with Simon Goldhill). In addition to numerous articles and book-chapters, she has produced study guides for both undergraduates and schoolteachers, including Theologies of Reading. New perspectives on pupil engagement with texts: An Introduction (with Kathryn Wright) and has collaborated on two research projects -Theology and Politics in the German Imagination 1789-1848 (with Hanna Weibye) and Theologies of Reading (through CRASSH with Simone Kotva and Laura Kilbride).
All are welcome. Matriculated members of the University community attending should please wear gowns (black gowns, hoods not required) and Corpus Christi College will kindly offer the customary refreshment of madeira and seedcake afterwards to those attending.
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