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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...

Congratulations to Dr Emily Qureshi-Hurst on publication of her new book Salvation in the Block Universe

23 January 2025

In Salvation in the Block Universe , Dr Emily Qureshi-Hurst explores the relationship between time, spacetime, and the Christian doctrine of salvation. She offers both a focused treatment of a particular problem – the problem of salvation in the block universe – and a broader exploration of a theological methodology that...

The Reverend Don Cupitt, 1934-2025

20 January 2025

It is with great sadness that we pass on the news, announced today by Emmanuel College, of the death of our former colleague, the Reverend Don Cupitt (University Lecturer in the Philosophy of Religion) on 18 January. Don Cupitt died at Addenbrookes after a short illness. The Faculty of Divinity extends condolences to his...

Kicking off with Cambridge United FC

13 January 2025

Partnering with local football club Cambridge United FC, Dr Joseph Powell, a British Academy Research Fellow is curating a series of conversations informed by his interest in how faith and football interact. Footnotes: The writing of football series launches later this month, sponsored by the Faculty of Divinity. Faith in...

Dr Anna Lefteratou awarded the Academy of Athens 2024 prize for a mongraph in Classics

2 January 2025

Warmest congratulations to Dr Anna Lefteratou on winning the Academy of Athens 2024 prize for a monograph in Classics. Anna was awarded this prize for her OUP monograph, The Homeric Centos: Homer and the Bible Interwoven.

The Stanton Lectures 2025

18 December 2024

The Stanton Lectures 2025 Ways of Oneness, will be delivered by Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad FBA, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University commencing Monday 24 February

Fully funded PhD studentships in Islamic Studies

17 December 2024

Through the generosity of the Hartwell Fund and the Sheikh Zayed Fund, the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge is delighted to be able to invite applications for two fully funded doctoral awards in Islamic Studies for candidates wishing to commence research from 1 October 2025. The Hartwell Studentship is...

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

Congratulations to Dr Emily Qureshi-Hurst on publication of her new book Salvation in the Block Universe

The Reverend Don Cupitt, 1934-2025

Kicking off with Cambridge United FC

Dr Anna Lefteratou awarded the Academy of Athens 2024 prize for a mongraph in Classics

The Stanton Lectures 2025

Fully funded PhD studentships in Islamic Studies

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