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Thursday
Jul292010

LTI Director's Anti-human Theology published

Posted on DateJuly 29, 2010 in ,

Peter Scott's Anti-human Theology: Nature, Technology and the Postnatural is now published by SCM Press. For further information, including a reduced price until the end of September 2010, please click here.

LATEST NEWS: Read a review from the UK Church Times here. 

'In this ground-breaking book, Scott makes a vital contribution to a necessary exodus out of enslaving modes of thinking about nature.' ---Sigurd Bergmann, Trondheim University, Norway.

'This book is a brilliant challenge to standard modes of theo-political discourse, one sure to stimulate new ways of imagining the contemporary human situation.' ---Lisa Sowle Cahill, Boston College, USA.

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Friday
Jul162010

Religion and Modernity in a Secular City Open Registration

Posted on DateJuly 16, 2010 in , ,

Registration is now open for the Religion and Modernity in a Secular City postgraduate conference, which will take place this coming 16-18 September at the Katholische Akademie in Berlin. The keynote speaker will be Professor Graham Ward, who will also engage in a public panel discussion with Dr. Ataullah Siddiqui of the Markfield Institute of Higher Education, and Professor Rolf Schieder of Humbolt University.

The language of the conference will be English, and the conference will take place in the centre of Berlin at the Katholische Akademie.

The registration form can be downloaded by clicking here, and the official programme for the conference can be downloaded by clicking here. The conference fee is €60 which includes lunch from Thursday to Saturday. Accommodation can also be booked at the conference venue through the registration form, however spaces are limited so do register soon.

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Thursday
Jul082010

New film launched

Posted on DateJuly 8, 2010 in ,

Beyond the tipping point?A new film by the LTI is being launched in Manchester Museum on the 15th July. Beyond the Tipping Point? Conversations on Climate, Action and the Future is a documentary exploring climate tipping points and their impact upon political actions. 

Once launched, the film will be freely available as a DVD screening pack for community groups, schools and universities engaged in this topic.  

Visit the new website, where you can find out more about how to request a film, and watch the trailer: www.beyondthetippingpoint.com

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Wednesday
May262010

Belonging & Heimat Colloquium No. 2

Posted on DateMay 26, 2010 in ,

Scholars from Germany and the UK met 20-21 May 2010 at the Lincoln Theological Institute at the University of Manchester for the second meeting of the Belonging & Heimat Project. Plans are now in place to publish the papers presented at the Colloquium. Financial assistance was provided by the Trustees of the Lincoln Theological Institute and the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, which is gladly acknowledged here.

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Tuesday
May182010

Fascinatingly Disturbing

Posted on DateMay 18, 2010 in ,

Dr. Michael Hoelzl has contributed to a newly released book on Michael Haneke's work entitled, Fascinatingly Disturbing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Michael Haneke's Cinema, edited by Alexander D. Ornella and Stefanie Knauss. Here's a brief extract from the back cover:

Michael Haneke is one of Europe’s most successful and controversial film directors. Awarded the Palme d’Or and numerous other international awards, Haneke has contributed to and shaped contemporary auteur cinema and is becoming more and more popular among academics and cinephiles. His mission is as noble as it is provocative: he wants to "rape the audience into independence," to wake them up from the lethargy caused by the entertainment industry. e lmic language he employs in this mission is both highly characteristic and ecient, and yet his methods are open to criticism for their violence toward and manipulation of the audience. e aim of this book is to analyze critically Haneke’s aesthetics, his message, as well as his ethical motivation from an interdisciplinary and intercultural perspective. Contributors to the book come from a variety of academic disciplines and cultural backgrounds-European and North American.

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Thursday
Apr222010

Engaging Society: Reassessing Anglican Social Ethics (6-8 Sept, 2010)

Posted on DateApril 22, 2010 in

The recent publication of The Children Society’s report A Good Childhood has provided a contemporary example of an older approach to social issues in which faith communities interact with specialists in different field and arrive at policy recommendations which are general enough to receive widespread support while specific enough to make an impact on government and churches, who must work out the detail of how to put them into practice (in the past these policy recommendations have been called ‘middle axioms’). This was the approach brought to prominence by William Temple in his highly influential Christianity and Social Order of 1942.  It also found expression in Faith in the City, the influential report of 1985.  The publication of A Good Childhood suggests that this approach still has mileage.  Is this the case?

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