Beyond the Catechism Weeks 6 – 8

6th Week (Please note two Meetings)
Monday 8:00 Reflections on John Paul II’s Theology of the Body (not on Wednesday)
John Paul’s ‘Theology of the Body’ may well rank as the most positive account of human sexuality in the history of Christianity and is becoming the basis of much modern exegesis of Church teaching on matters [...]

Beyond the Catechism Weeks 3 and 4

3rd Week Monday 8:00:God, the Universe and Evil
How are we to reconcile our belief in a loving creator God in a world where human cruelty and natural disaster are a part of everyday experience? This talk explores a range of responses from philosophers of religion and the different ways in [...]

Beyond the Catechism Talks for Hilary Term

1st Week Wednesday 8:00: Knowing and Believing in God
2nd Week Wednesday 8:00: Reading the Tradition:
Salvation History and the Old Testament
3rd Week Monday 8:00:God, the Universe and Evil
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Beyond the Catechism: Texts

Texts are now available for the first five talks of the BTC lectures last term

Lecture One Faith and Reason
Lecture Two Resurrection and the End of the World 100 BC latest

Possible strands of influence and confluence of thought in the Hellenistic Period lecture 2

Names and dates
Lecture three A History of the Word
A History of the [...]

BTC VIII God and the 21st Century Universe

Given all we know about the universe and its workings, can it still be reasonable for intelligent people to continue believing in a transcendent creator God?  Many have argued that such belief can only be held at the price of sacrificing the human pursuit of reasonable understanding.  What would a modern argument for the existence [...]

BTC VI Time, God and Freedom

This Week, Beyond the Catechism will be taking place on Tuesday at 8:00 in the Blue Room.  This week’s theme is Time.  Many conflicts in Christian Theology and in our own self-understanding of redemption hinge on the way we imagine time.  Modern physics makes some interesting leaps of imagination, which invite us to reorder how [...]

BTC Lecture 5: A History of the Soul – This one’s about US.

Over the last weeks we have been looking at how reason and tradition intertwine in the unfolding of revelation.

BTC IV A History of Being and Other Big Words

This week we look at how the Greek scientific language of Being, Nature and Hypostasis become integrated in Christian Revelation and ask questions about how to translate these terms into the intellectual Hochsprache of our time.

BTC Week 8 – Postponed till Hilary

With apologies – for complicated reasons this week’s talk on the problem of evil in the world will be deferred until Hilary Term.
Thanks to all who have attended the talks thus far. The series continues on Wednesday of Week 1 on the topic of Knowing God and the Problem of Knowledge.

Beyond the Catechism III

A History of the Word
This week follows on from the discussions about the dialogue between faith and reason in the 20th Century and in the pre-Christian centuries.  We examine the word ‘Logos’, ancestor of our ‘reason’ or ‘intellect’, a key term in our understanding of the second person of the Trinity.  How can we [...]

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