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Anglican Studies Research Seminars
Convenor: Canon Professor Michael Snape (michael.snape@durham.ac.uk)
Meetings: Selected Wednesdays (4.00-5.30pm)
Description
This seminar series is organised by the Michael Ramsey Centre for Anglican Studies, which was formed in 2016 to promote pioneering interdisciplinary research into the global Anglican tradition in all its depth and diversity.
The series aims to examine the life, thought and heritage of the Anglican Communion from a multidisciplinary perspective, drawing on the study of theology and spirituality, liturgy, music, literature, history, philosophy, ethics, ecumenism and comparative religion.
It seeks to gather prominent guest speakers, research staff and postgraduate students from a range of Durham University departments, as well as members of the Church and wider public.
Seminars are free and welcome all. No advanced booking is required.
Easter Term 2025
This term’s programme is a mixture of in-person and online-only. Please check each event for details.
Wednesday 7 May, 4.00–5.30 p.m. at St Antony’s Priory,
Isaac Frisby, a third year PhD student in the department of theology and religion at the university of Durham and in June will be beginning his curacy in the church of England. He is also associate editor at Koinonia, the Journal of the Anglican and Eastern Churches Association.
How does the ‘Giver of Life’ give us life? phenomenology of life and the doctrine of the Holy Spirit in dialogue
The Holy Spirit is confessed in the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed as the ‘giver of life’. However, ‘life’ is here often restricted to ‘spiritual’ or ‘resurrection’ life, biological life being the jealous purview of the natural sciences. The overall aim of this project is to offer an answer to the question, ‘in what way is the Holy Spirit the ‘giver of (biological) life’?’ To answer this question, Isaac draws on the theology of Sergii Bulgakov and the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, in order to give a more satisfying definition and account of biological life than that of the natural sciences which offer bare empirical facts and continue to operate on a basically mechanistic view of the world. In this paper Isaac will argue that the nature of life is, phenomenologically speaking, respirational (or breath-like). At the end of this paper, he will offer some indicators of how this phenomenological account complements an account of the Holy Spirit as the ‘breath’ of God within the Holy Trinity and in relation to the creation.
In-person only at St Antony’s Priory, 74 Claypath, Durham, DH1 1QT.
More information: admin.cas@durham.ac.uk
Epiphany Term 2025
This term’s programme is a mixture of in-person and online-only. Please check each event for details.
Wednesday 29 January, 4.00–5.30 p.m.
Revd Dr Kathy Grieb, Director of the Center for Anglican Communion Studies and Professor of Biblical Interpretation and New Testament at Virginia Theological Seminary.
Richard Hooker as Pastor, Preacher, and Practical Theologian
This paper will explore this less well-known side of Richard Hooker and attempt to show how some of his formal theological convictions were expressed in the practical setting of a country church.
Online only: http://bit.ly/4gKnSTo
Wednesday 26 February, 4.00–5.30 p.m.
Dr Paulo Ueti, Theological Adviser and Latin American Regional Director for the Anglican Alliance (supporting advocacy, aid and development across the Anglican Communion) and adviser for episcopal ministry in the Anglican Communion.
John 2:1-10 - Community as a place of transformation - diakonia and joy: ecclesiological debate at the end of first century CE
Online only: https://bit.ly/4fMzhAQ
Wednesday 12 March, 4.00–5.30 p.m.
Revd Dr Alison Walker, Ludlow Lead Tutor, Ripon College, Cuddesdon.
Church of England, Place and Willie James Jennings
Online only: link to be posted
Wednesday 19 March, 4.00–5.30 p.m. at St Antony’s Priory,
Revd Ryan Bennett, SSM, Australian Province, Final year PhD candidate in Divinity at the University of Edinburgh, research area: The rise of the Christian Socialist Movement in the twentieth century in the United Kingdom and United States respectively, with particular attention on Archbishop William Temple and Dorothy Day.
Embodied Theology: A study of the Incarnational Theology of Archbishop William Temple and Servant of God, Dorothy Day, with reference to the influence of Fr. Herbert Kelly, SSM
In-person only at St Antony’s Priory, 74 Claypath, Durham, DH1 1QT.
More information: admin.cas@durham.ac.uk