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Refined by Fire? Anglican and Roman Catholic attitudes to cremation since 1885 - Dr. Frances Knight

29/10/2015

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Research Seminar on Anglicanism since 1688
Thursday 5 November at 2:15 pm, to conclude with tea at 3.45 pm
Venue: Pusey House, St. Giles

Britain was the first modern European country to adopt the widespread practice of cremation, and by 2010 it had become the custom adopted in around three quarters of all funerals. This paper explores the role of early-Twentieth Century Anglican bishops in advocating this change in funeral customs. Various prominent bishops - including Edward Lee Hicks, Charles Gore and William Temple - were keen and vocal early advocates. This was at a time when the Roman Catholic Church was still enormously hostile to the practice, which it equated with atheism and inhumanity. Although the Roman Catholic position began to soften from the 1960s onwards, this paper argues that the differing attitudes of Anglicans and Roman Catholics on the issue of cremation reveal significant religious and cultural fault lines between these two ecclesial communities which have hitherto been little explored.


Dr. Frances Knight is Associate Professor in the History of Modern Christianity and Head of Department, Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham


Series Conveners

Rev'd Prof. Mark Chapman, Dean of College, Lecturer in Systematic Theology, Ripon College Cuddesdon
Rev’d Dr. George Westhaver, Principal, Pusey House

There will be three further seminars in Trinity Term 2016.
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St. Helena Dreams of the Cross

27/10/2015

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Heavenly Participation - Discussion Group

27/10/2015

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All Souls Day - Requiem Mass

27/10/2015

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St. Gregory of Nyssa

23/10/2015

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Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335-c.395) is widely regarded today as one of the most influential thinkers of the Greek Patristic tradition. In my lecture, I shall present his thought as a holistic vision in which philosophical understanding, spiritual or mystical insight, and ethical practice are inseparable. 

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Justin Martyr

13/10/2015

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​The Recollection Series 2015

The first Recollection lecture of Michaelmas Term, "Christianity as true philosophy: The theology of St. Justin Martyr", by Matthew Thomas, will take place next Wednesday, 21 October, from 2.00 till 3:30 pm followed by tea at Pusey House.

A full list of lectures at Pusey House this term, as well as information about our theological conference next summer, can be found below.

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Theology or Culture?

6/10/2015

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The 2016 Theological Conference

17/7/2015

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Thomas Traherne

16/6/2015

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Thomas Traherne (c.1637-1674), little regarded until the beginning of the 20th century, when his poems and Centuries of Meditation were published. He was sometimes dismissed as a rather fuzzy nature mystic, a sort of pre-Wordsworthian pantheist, but, thanks to the discovery of many new works in manuscript (itself an extraordinary story) we now see that he was a much more significant theologian and Christian writer than had been thought. Traherne has an Augustinian spirituality of desire, and, like Hopkins, sees the world as ‘charged with the grandeur of God.’ His poems, and even more his poetic prose, are a powerful expression of Sursum Corda! - Lift up your hearts!  

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A Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Pusey House Chapel

6/5/2015

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Saturday, 30th May, 2015, 2.00 to 4.00 p.m, the Pusey House Chapel will celebrate its 100th anniversary year with a colloquium considering the architectural significance of the Chapel in relation to the University and the Oxford Movement. Evensong will follow the Colloquium.

Speakers will include the Rev’d Professor William Whyte, Fellow in History, and Dean, St John’s College, Oxford, on ‘Oxford, Gothic, and Education’, and Dr Ayla Lepine, Lecturer in Art History, University of Essex, ‘Towards a New Gothic Revival: Temple Moore's Sacred Medievalism at Pusey House’. The day will conclude with a Choral Evensong for the Eve of Trinity Sunday at 4 pm, at which Mr Geoff Brandwood, author of Temple Moore: An Architect of the Late Gothic Revival, will speak. 

All the speakers will participate in the question and answer session at 3 pm, joined by John C Goom, architect and specialist in the care and conservation of historic buildings.

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