King's Patristics Seminar and History of Philosophical Theology Seminar
The King's Patristics Seminar and History of Philosophical Theology Seminar invites leading international scholars, but also gives young scholars a platform and, of course, all present the chance to interact and discuss recent research.
All seminars take place in Room 2E, in the Chesham Building, Strand Campus, and will last for approximately two hours.
For more information, please contact Professor Markus Vinzent.
Seminars 2012-13
Semester one (Autumn term) 2012-13
16 October 2012; 11:30
Timothy D. Barnes
'The Funerary Speech for John Chrysostom'
30 October 2012, 11:30
Robin Orton
'"A very bad book"? Another look at St Gregory of Nyssa's Answer to Apolinarius'
20 November 2012, 11:30
Anita Mir
'Ecstasy of body and mind'. Or: how religious uncloistered women in medieval Europe offered new ways of knowing and loving God.
DATE TBC - postponed
Peter Toth
'‘The Rise and Function of Apocryphal Narrative: The Case of the Prophets’ Parlament in the Netherworld’'
DATE TBC - postponed
Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski
'Leading women to immortality: the Gospel of Thomas (NHL II, 2)'
Semester two (Spring) 2012-13
22 January 2013, 11.30
Peter Toth (The Warburg Institute)
'‘The Rise and Function of Apocryphal Narrative: The Case of the Prophets’ Parlament in the Netherworld’'
05 February 2013, 11.30
Patristics Research Seminar
Allen Brent (King's College London)
'The Avercius inscription - pagan/Christian?'
26 February 2013, 11.30
History of Philosophical Theology Seminar
Dr Christian Jung (Vienna)
'Meister Eckhart’s Parisian Questions and his Opus Tripartitum'
12 March 2013, 11.30
History of Philosophical Theology Seminar
Dr Ben Morgan (Dean, and Fellow and Tutor in German Worcester College, Oxford)
'Meister Eckhart and Neuroscience'