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Amal Awad (Faculty Postdoc) convenes major conference on Medieval Islamic Thought

27 May 2025

Amal Awad , British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Divinity (pictured above with keynote speaker His Royal Highness Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad), convened a high-level international conference entitled The Philosophy of Mind in Medieval Islamic Thought , which took place from 16 to 18 May 2025 at the Old...

Congratulations to James McFetridge Wilson on his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Notre Dame

22 May 2025

wilson._j._m._original-d0967279-cbd5-43bb-b4da-f1411066c517.jpeg James is a PhD student in Theology and will join the De Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture in the fall to continue his work on metaphysics and modernism, with a focus on American modernist, William Faulkner."

New appointment: Dr Joanna Leidenhag

19 May 2025

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Dr Joanna Leidenhag (University of Leeds) will be succeeding Andrew Davison in the Starbridge professorship in Theology and Natural Science. A pioneer in science-engaged theology, on which she co-authored a Cambridge Elements monograph in 2023, Dr Leidenhag has published on...

The nascent Cambridge Centre for Chinese Theology at the Faculty of Divinity

8 May 2025

cambridge_centre_for_chinese_theology.png cambridge_centre_for_chinese_theology.png Lux Mundi Inc. (USA) has awarded Dr. Ximian Simeon Xu a grant of £1 million to establish the Cambridge Centre for Chinese Theology (CCCT). The project will advance Chinese theology understood in the broadest sense through addressing the...

Seminar Discussion and Book Launch - Images of Elsewhere by Timothy Jenkins

29 April 2025

You are warmly invited to a panel discussion with Dr Timothy Jenkins (Reader Emeritus in Social Anthropology of Religion, Cambridge) on his new series of books on the relation between religion and machine and human thinking in the long history of UFOs. Panellists include Prof Joseph Webster (Professor of the Anthropology...

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.

Amal Awad (Faculty Postdoc) convenes major conference on Medieval Islamic Thought

Congratulations to James McFetridge Wilson on his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Notre Dame

New appointment: Dr Joanna Leidenhag

The nascent Cambridge Centre for Chinese Theology at the Faculty of Divinity

Seminar Discussion and Book Launch - Images of Elsewhere by Timothy Jenkins

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

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