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Dr Sara Parks introduces the text that lies behind the gospels of Matthew and Luke – to which we give the name ‘Q’. In turn, this allows her to study what this text says about women…
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Dr Sara Parks introduces the text that lies behind the gospels of Matthew and Luke – to which we give the name ‘Q’. This notion of Q was put forward to explain a literary problem:…
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In this follow-up vlog, Professor John Atherton, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, outlines some of the headline faculty level results following the campus…
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Every two years the University of Nottingham appoints an eminent theologian to deliver the Firth Lectures which comprise of two public lectures (since 2012 these are available on YouTube) and a…
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In this video, John Barclay, the Firth Lecturer for 2018, presented a fresh reading of grace and gift in Paul's theology – and especially what is found in 2 Corinthians. This shows us that…
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In his book, Paul and the Gift (2015) John Barclay presented a fresh reading of grace and gift in Paul's theology, studying it in view of ancient notions of ‘gift’ and shining new…
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'Building the support needed to conduct leading research' In his second vlog, Professor John Atherton, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences,…
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In his first-ever vlog, Professor John Atherton, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, highlights the real opportunities we all have to get involved in local…
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John Hess, worked for BBC East Midlands Today between 1997 and 2015, In this video he talks about the challenges of political journalism, the difference between regional and national reporting and…
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John Hess, worked for BBC East Midlands Today between 1997 and 2015. In this video he talks about his interest in politics and the skills you need to become a journalist. In this competitive area of…
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Kevin McGinnell and Tom O’Loughlin discuss the challenge of creating an incarnational liturgy fifty years after the close of the Second Vatican Council.
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Footwashing has been part of the ritual inheritance of Christians since at least the time John composed his gospel, but it has also been a much misunderstood and avoided ritual. Here Thomas…
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Professor William Kay, one of the world’s leading Pentecostal theologians, introduces a striking, and often controversial, feature of Pentecostalism: its emphasis on healing and the way it…
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Dr Francisca Rumsey reflects in the significance of the
Second Vatican Council (1963-5) in conversation with Prof. Tom O’Loughlin
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Prof. Tom O’Loughlin examines what is meant by
the word ‘word’ and its complex uses in Christian theology Other videos in the A-Z of Theology series can be found here;…
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The Firth Lectures take place every other year in the University of Nottingham, and it is the custom to ask the lecturer to conduct a post-graduate seminar on some aspect of her/his work. In 2016 the…
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Conor Cunningham introduces the work of the French philosopher Michel Henry (1922-2002) and the contribution that he made to theology. Henry’s work, he argues, can be seen as an attempt to draw…
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Conor Cunningham introduces the issue of theism as
confronting ‘deep’ materialism and nihilism. The question that theologians must
address is not the traditional ‘is there life…
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Archbishop Kevin McDonald discusses with Prof. Tom
O’Loughlin what the Catholic Church sees as the nature of ‘the church’ and how
the notion of ‘the church’ relates to…
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Archbishop Kevin McDonald discusses with Prof. Tom
O’Loughlin the self-perception of the Catholic Church, in the aftermath of the
Second Vatican Council (1962-5), of Judaism, Islam, Buddhism,…
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John Milbank and Simon Oliver discuss the significance of
the work of Blessed Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) for the way we do theology
today. Nicholas, in challenging the role of the Principle of…
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Augustine was born in Roman North Africa in 354
and died as Bishop of Hippo, also in North Africa, in 430. He was one of the
most prolific Christian writers of all time and all western Christian…
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Anyone who has heard of the Marriage Feast at Cana (Gospel of John 2:1-11) has heard of ‘the six stone jars, for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty…
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Archbishop Kevin McDonald discusses with Prof.
Tom O’Loughlin the significance of the Roman Catholic statement on that
church’s view of other religions, and especially how the Catholic…
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Dr Christina Lee, Associate Professor of Viking Studies in
the School of English, looks at how disability and disease were viewed by
Christians during the Middle Ages. She uses evidence that comes…
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Prof. Tom O’Loughlin introduces the document known in studies of the gospel as “Q”. Q refers to the material that is common to the gospels of Matthew and Luke (apart from the…
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Take a trip with John as he flies back to the US for Christmas. Watch Emma's Christmas vlog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2MoEB0MYaU See more from John…
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Emma shows off some of the festive fun she and her friends got up to in the last weeks of term. Watch John's vlog about his first months in the UK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwhpGttoqUY See…
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Sir John Sawers, former Chief of MI6 and Nottingham alumnus,
delivered a Chancellor’s Lecture on 25 November 2015 on a range of topics from
technology, security and freedom, the Iraq War,…
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In their latest conversation, Dr Simon Oliver and Professor John Milbank discuss the Analogy of Being. Starting with the works of Thomas Aquinas, the 13th Century theologian and the use of language…
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Professor William Kay, one of the world’s leading Pentecostal theologians, discusses the origins of Pentecostalism at the end of the nineteenth century with Dr Frances Knight. He describes how…
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In the second of their 2 part discussion, Professor John MIlbank and Dr Simon Oliver continue to look at the notion of 'the Gift'. Picking up with the idea that a purified gift, given one…
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In the first of a 2 part discussion, Professor John MIlbank and Dr Simon Oliver introduce the notion of 'the Gift'. Beginning with the French Anthropologist, Marcel Mauss (1872 - 1950) they…
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Dr John McDade explores Friedrich Nietzsche’s (1844-1900) notion of a ‘ladder of cruelty’ within the development of religion. McDade argues that this is, in some way, a secular…
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Dr David Monkton looks at how there has been a renewal of Eucharistic understanding in contemporary Methodism. This has come about from a variety of sources such as a rediscovery of Methodism’s…
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Dr John McDade looks at what is meant by the terms ‘Catholicism’ and ‘the Catholic Church’ – and argues that one should see Christianity as ‘Reconfigured…
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John Timpson graduated from The University of Nottingham in 1964 with a degree in Industrial Economics.
His great grandfather William Timpson launched a shoe retailers called 'Timpson' in…
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Dr John McDade questions the nature of modern unbelief. He sees is as generated from within an approach to the question of God which grew up among Christian theologians in the early modern period. In…
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Dr David Monkton gives an insight into the key elements of Methodist spirituality which he sees as a direct legacy of John Wesley (1703-1791) and concludes that there is no holiness that it not…
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Dr Rob Lutton of the Department of History in The University of Nottingham describes the origins of an important social and religious movement in fifteenth-century England: Lollardy. This movement,…
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John Micheal, MBA graduate, talks about his experiences studying for an MBA at Nottingham University Business School at The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus.
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