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In Our Time on the topic of ‘Typology’ featured the Divinity Faculty's Dr Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe

23 April 2025

On 17th April, BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time on the topic of ‘Typology’ featured the Divinity Faculty's Dr Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe, Associate Professor in Patristics, alongside fellow Cambridge academic Dr Harry Spillane (Munby Fellow in Bibliography Cambridge Melvyn Bragg and guests explore typology, a method of biblical...

Dr Marietta van der Tol to take up the Landecker Lectureship at the Faculty of Divinity

12 March 2025

The Alfred Landecker Foundation has awarded Dr Marietta van der Tol (Trinity College) one of its prestigious Landecker Lectureships, carrying €600,000 in funding for the five-year project “Imagining Sacred Lands: the ‘Russian World’, ‘Hungarian World’, and ‘Holy Serbia’”. The Landecker Lecturer Program’s mission is to...

Ways of Oneness - Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad FBA - Penultimate Stanton Lecture this evening 5pm

4 March 2025

The penultimate Stanton Lecture in this series, this evening 5pm, Runcie Room. ------------------------------------------------- Tuesday 4 March, Thursday 6 March Lectures 5-6. Oneness with manyness Self and World in God: Comparing Rāmānuja and Ibn al-‘Arabi All welcome . img_2795._ram._v.4.jpg

Hearts and Minds Award

3 March 2025

Congratulations are due to Dr Anastasia Badder, whose collaboration with Dr Nikolai Kazantsev (IfM) won a competition for interdisciplinary research proposals. Earlier this month, Anastasia and Nikolai participated in a University of Cambridge Bridging STEM and AHSS Hearts & Mind event. Hosted at the West Hub, the...

The Stanton Lectures 2025

3 March 2025

ram.jpg The Stanton Lectures 2025 - Monday 3rd March, fourth lecture today - 'Ways of Oneness' Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad FBA Distinguished Professor of Comparative Philosophy and Religion (Lancaster) Faculty of Divinity, Runcie Room 5 – 6:30pm. All welcome.

THE STANTON LECTURES 2025

27 February 2025

The third/six lecture in this series is this evening Thursday 27 February: Ways of Oneness Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad FBA Distinguished Professor of Comparative Philosophy and Religion Lancaster University Faculty of Divinity, Runcie Room 5 – 6:30pm God and World: Complementary perspectives from Abhinava and Spinoza. All very...

THE STANTON LECTURES 2025

20 February 2025

The first two lectures in this series commence on Monday 24 February and Tuesday 25 February: Ways of Oneness Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad FBA Distinguished Professor of Comparative Philosophy and Religion Lancaster University Faculty of Divinity, Runcie Room 5 – 6:30pm Lectures 1-2. Overcoming difference World, self and what...

BBC Sunday Morning Live - Akeem Adagbada on African Spirituality and History

11 February 2025

Akeem Adagbada, one of our PhD students, was interviewed recently on BBC Sunday Morning Live . Akeem's research interests cut across African 'traditional' religion, Christianity, and the Arts, and he features in a segment discussing the place of African Spirituality, mythology and history in possible changes to the British...

Congratulations to Jonathan Torrance, whose Cambridge PhD has been awarded the Lautenschläger Award for Theology Promise

10 February 2025

Jonathan's thesis, Sin and Theory: Martin Luther’s Doctrine of Sin in Dialogue with Critical Theory , will be published with Bloomsbury/T&T Clark. Jonny completed his PhD in the Faculty of Divinity in 2023 and is now Chaplain and Career Development Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford. https://fiit-heidelberg.de/en/...

Event report: Exploring a modern-day scripture

27 January 2025

Earlier this month, the Faculty of Divinity hosted a one-day symposium to explore a highly contemporary scripture: the Satsaṅga Dīkṣā, authored in the opening months of 2020. Tilak Parekh, a co-convenor and member of the Cambridge Interfaith Research Forum, reports: The Satsaṅga Dīkṣā Symposium was held on Friday, 17...

In Our Time on the topic of ‘Typology’ featured the Divinity Faculty's Dr Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe

Dr Marietta van der Tol to take up the Landecker Lectureship at the Faculty of Divinity

Ways of Oneness - Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad FBA - Penultimate Stanton Lecture this evening 5pm

Hearts and Minds Award

The Stanton Lectures 2025

THE STANTON LECTURES 2025

THE STANTON LECTURES 2025

BBC Sunday Morning Live - Akeem Adagbada on African Spirituality and History

Congratulations to Jonathan Torrance, whose Cambridge PhD has been awarded the Lautenschläger Award for Theology Promise

Event report: Exploring a modern-day scripture

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