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Research Seminar Series: Academic Writing in Theology

Online with Zoom

We offer supportive study skills seminars for research students.  Our own students get priority, but all are welcome if places are available.  Please contact Dr Férdia Stone Davis for more information at  fjs23@mbit.cam.ac.uk Research Seminar Series: Academic Writing in Theology How to Begin? Lent Term on Wednesdays 19 January 2022, 1pm–3pm: What is a PhD anyway?  Identifying a research question and getting started. 02 February 2022, 1pm–3pm: Academic writing: working within a discipline, building a structure and crafting the appropriate style. 16 February 2022, 1pm–3pm: Project and time management: discipline, deadlines and planning ahead. 02 March 2022, 1pm–3pm: Methods, methodologies [...]

Free

Women Who Changed the Church Lecture: Mary Mother of God and More

Online with Zoom

Dr Sue Price will explore Mary's life, her words and the church teachings, the changes and challenges she may be presenting to us within the Church in the present day. Without Mary, there would be no Church as we know it. Depending on which translation is used, Mary speaks less than 200 words in the gospels. This talk will consider her words, the doctrinal teachings and some of the traditions around this amazing woman. Using art and music to illustrate this talk, Dr Price will reflect on how Mary is seen today and wonder about the changes within the Church [...]

£10

Prophetic Imagination: A Conversation between Thomas Merton and Abraham Joshua Heschel

Online with Zoom

This study day will explore two of the most influential thinkers and faith leaders of the twentieth century.  Merton, a Catholic priest/monk and Heschel, a Jewish rabbi embodied the prophetic imagination in their writing, in their relationships and in their lives. Through them, we will see how the issues of their time – race, technological advances, interfaith relations, failures in the exercise of ethical leadership and the search for authenticity in religious practice – are the self-same issues that challenge us in the twenty-first century. A dialogue of hearts, minds and souls with opportunity for active engagement and reflection. Course [...]

£35

Study Day: My God, My God, Why? Exploring the Mystery of Suffering

Online with Zoom

There is surely nothing more difficult to talk about than suffering and yet surely no subject where it is more necessary that we speak responsibly. This course does not aim to provide an answer to “the problem of pain” – because that is impossible. Rather, it is hoped that it may provide some resources from the Christian tradition to help us to approach our own pain and that of others with confidence and compassion. Course Leader: Dr Ann Swailes OP Date: Wednesday, 26th January 2022, 10.30am– 4.00pm (includes lunch and coffee breaks) Cost: £50 Early birds get £5 off if [...]

£50

Women Who Changed the Church Lecture: ‘And your daughters shall prophesy…’ The influence of women in the Protestant Reformation

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Dr Charlotte Methuen will consider the contribution of women in the German Reformation, particularly women who published controversial works in support of Luther's ideas.  These include the former nuns Florentina von Oberweimar and Ursula von Münsterberg, whose works were endorsed by Luther, the lay women Argula von Grumbach, Ursula Weyda, Katharina Schutz Zell, and the anonymous author of two polemical treatises.  The paper will show how women justified their contributions to Reformation debates, despite efforts to silence them coming from on both sides of Reformation debates, and assess their influence. Date/Time:  Thursday 27 January 2022 at 2:00pm to 3:30pm Cost:  [...]

£10

Research Seminar Series: Academic Writing in Theology

Online with Zoom

We offer supportive study skills seminars for research students.  Our own students get priority, but all are welcome if places are available.  Please contact Dr Férdia Stone Davis for more information at  fjs23@mbit.cam.ac.uk Research Seminar Series: Academic Writing in Theology How to Begin? Lent Term on Wednesdays 19 January 2022, 1pm–3pm: What is a PhD anyway?  Identifying a research question and getting started. 02 February 2022, 1pm–3pm: Academic writing: working within a discipline, building a structure and crafting the appropriate style. 16 February 2022, 1pm–3pm: Project and time management: discipline, deadlines and planning ahead. 02 March 2022, 1pm–3pm: Methods, methodologies [...]

Free

Women Who Changed the Church: Teresa of Avila: Reformer, Mystic, Spiritual Guide

Online with Zoom

St Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) is a towering figure in Christian spirituality, her influence extending far beyond the Carmelite Order in which she established her reformed or ‘discalced’ branch of nuns and friars, now spread throughout the world.  In an age when women were expected to restrict their spiritual horizons to reciting vocal prayers and receiving the sacraments, Teresa discovered friendship with Christ as the gateway to contemplative prayer, experienced for herself the most exalted forms of mystical union and, undaunted by the Inquisition, encouraged her sisters to do likewise.  Her mystical writings quickly became spiritual classics and continue to [...]

£10

CTP Module 4 Women Who Changed the Church Workshop 1 of 3

Online with Zoom

From the women of the scripture to Catholic Women Speak, women have consistently changed church practice, communities, and ideas.  This eight lecture series, including this year’s Mary Ward lecture, will explore inspirational women whose lives and actions have been transformational within the Church.  By focusing on women in the historical and contemporary church, the course is designed to open discussion spaces to celebrate, uncover, and critique the contributions of women to and through Church history. Speakers include:  Prof Shannen Dee Williams of University of Dayton (Mary Ward Lecture 2022), Sr Jo Robson OCD, Prof Jeana Del Rosso of Notre Dame [...]

Women Who Changed the Church Lecture: Women Religious, Charitable Ministries and the Welfare State

Online with Zoom

Women Religious, Charitable Ministries and the Welfare State As part of the renewal process coming out of the Second Vatican Council, women religious questioned and rethought their religious ministries. What were once ventures that had at their essence caritas and evangelisation were now embedded in the welfare state apparatus. In examining the shift in women's ministries, this paper examines the letting go of institutional religious ventures, particular those relating to education and medical care by exploring how existing ministries were reshaped and new ones were established. These shifts were often a move from Catholic-centred, identity-laden, instrumental 'fortress-church' ministries to forms [...]

£10

Research Seminar Series: Academic Writing in Theology

Online with Zoom

We offer supportive study skills seminars for research students.  Our own students get priority, but all are welcome if places are available.  Please contact Dr Férdia Stone Davis for more information at  fjs23@mbit.cam.ac.uk Research Seminar Series: Academic Writing in Theology How to Begin? Lent Term on Wednesdays 19 January 2022, 1pm–3pm: What is a PhD anyway?  Identifying a research question and getting started. 02 February 2022, 1pm–3pm: Academic writing: working within a discipline, building a structure and crafting the appropriate style. 16 February 2022, 1pm–3pm: Project and time management: discipline, deadlines and planning ahead. 02 March 2022, 1pm–3pm: Methods, methodologies [...]

Free

Women Who Changed the Church Lecture: Female Self Understanding, Theological Reflection and the Practice of Art

Online with Zoom

In this lecture, Sr  Pavlína Marie Kašparová will focus on female self-understanding, introducing recent case studies, including those from her research project, 'The Women of the Book', in which she investigated the presence of religious femininity and its representation in public. She will discuss how such work relates to the theme of women's identity and self-image within the Catholic Church and its teaching. She will also explore how theological reflection and art practice is used as a methodology to express, analyse and communicate the topic of self-representation to the women involved in her research (both in terms of self-journaling and [...]

£10

CTP Module 4 Women Who Changed the Church Workshop 2 of 3

MBIT in Cambridge or Online via Zoom 12 - 14 Grange Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

From the women of the scripture to Catholic Women Speak, women have consistently changed church practice, communities, and ideas.  This eight lecture series, including this year’s Mary Ward lecture, will explore inspirational women whose lives and actions have been transformational within the Church.  By focusing on women in the historical and contemporary church, the course is designed to open discussion spaces to celebrate, uncover, and critique the contributions of women to and through Church history. Speakers include:  Prof Shannen Dee Williams of Villanova University (Mary Ward Lecture 2022), Prof Jeana Del Rosso of Notre Dame of Maryland University, Dr Sue [...]