Inaugural Lecture of the Norris-Hulse Professor
Professor Catherine Pickstock will deliver her inaugural lecture as the Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity
with an introduction by the Vice-Chancellor
An online lecture released at 2pm BST on Wednesday 20th May 2020 (see below).
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("Pastorale" by Barbara Hepworth, with thanks to Kettle's Yard) |
The Spider and the Bee: Confinement and Metaphysics
If truth is more than the banality of ‘what is’, more than a ‘redundant’ terminology, then a certain faith in its possibility as continuously arriving and as disclosive addition or ‘grace’ is implicitly required. This is no luxury – it is rather the key to the sustaining of human communication and interaction beyond the epistemological lockdown of the spider’s cobweb-castle. |
Other versions of the video and a transcript may be found at https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/3218111.
Other special lectures
- Inaugural lecture of the Regius Professor of Divinity, Ian McFarland
- Inaugural lecture of the Sultan Qaboos Professor, Garth Fowden
- Inaugural lecture of the Professor of Philosophical Theology, Janet Soskice
- Professor Nicholas de Lange's valedictory lecture
- Inaugural lecture of the Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, Judith Lieu
- Inaugural lecture of the Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity, Sarah Coakley