Recollection Lecture Archive

Where available, all previous Recollection talks are available, as audio-recordings or as videos on our YouTube Channel, here.

2021-22

Gothic Reinvention: Temple Moore at Pusey House
Mr Harry Spain
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Edward King: A Man for all Seasons
The Rt Rev'd Michael Marshall
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The Pneumatology of Origen- Soteriological and Philosophic Perspectives
Fr Joseph Hamilton
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The Centrality of Mark
Prof John Finnis
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Seeking Catholic Unity as an Ecumenical Vision: The Life of Max Thurian
The Rev'd Dr Jakob Trônet
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Christian Contract Law and the Morality of the Market: A Historical Perspective
Prof Wim Decock
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2020-21

Michaelmas Term (download descriptions here)

1. Dynamic Pneumatology: Demonology, Deliverance, and Exorcism in the second century of the Christian era
The Rev'd Joseph Hamilton

2. Did Saint Augustine invent identity politics?
Dr Jonathan Price
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3. The Orthodox Reality
Professor Vigen Guroian

Hilary Term (Download descriptions here)

1. Beginingless remaking in Julian of Norwich's vernacular theology
Dr Godelinde Perk
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2. The two receptions of Avicenna: Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus
Dr Daniel De Haan
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3. Luther and Augustine
Professor Philip Cary
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Trinity Term (Download descriptions here)

1. Can quantum physics restore the discarded image?
Dr William Simpson
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2. The Church and the Virus (The Peter Toon Memorial Lecture)
Dr Edward Dowler
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3. 'Quit your couch': Wordsworth on Pilgrimage
Miss Shanti Daffern
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4. Recalling the University to the Covenant
Dr Dominic Burbidge
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2019-2020

Michaelmas Term (Download descriptions here)

1. Reading the Psalms Literally or Allegorically? Reading Psalms 1 and 2 with some of the Church Fathers
The Rev'd Canon Professor Sue Gillingham
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2. Recollection and Reality: Reflections on Homer and Boethius
Dr Stephen Blackwood
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3. Love and Cambridge Platonism as the Origins of C. S. Lewis' Moral Vision
Dr James Bryson
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4. Pneumatology in the pre-Nicene Church
The Rev'd Joseph Hamilton
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Hilary Term (Download descriptions here)

1. Jesus and the Prophets: Reading the Transfiguration in conversation with Islam
Dr Ida Glaser

2. Digito Dei: Sacraments and Semiotics through the Theology of Hugh of Saint Victor
The Rev'd Dr Ruben Angelici
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3. St Ephrem's poems on Lent
Dr Sebastian Brock
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2018-2019

Michaelmas Term (Download descriptions here)

1. In quo inquit, adprehendam Dominum? Plotinian Ascent and Christian Sacrifice in Saint Augustine's City of God 10. 1-7.
Mr James Lawson

2. Luke's Transfiguration Narrative: Some Patristic Perspectives
The Rev'd Peter Anthony

3. Space, Sound, and Spirituality: Thoughts on the Little Ice Age, Polyphony, and the Evolution of Sacred Space
Professor Paul Shore

4. St. John Damascene on the Five Elements of Creation
Professor Andrew Louth

5. Isaac of Nineveh and the Cross of Christ
The Rev'd Nesky Everett

Hilary Term (Download descriptions here)

1. The Eucharistic Sacrifice in Orthodox Theology: 12th century discussions
The Most Rev'd Metropolitan Kallistos Ware
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2. Union with Christ in Walter Hilton's and Julian of Norwich's writings
Miss Antje Carrel
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3. Breugel and Incarnation - Seeing Salvation Afresh
The Rev'd Dr Andrew Teal
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Trinity Term (Download descriptions here)

1. Henry Hammond, the English Revolution and the creation of Anglicanism
Miss Sarah Mortimer

2. Predestination to Life: Assisted Suicide, Human Dignity, and the Faith enshrined in the Book of Common Prayer (The Peter Toon Memorial Lecture)
The Rev'd Vaughan Roberts
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3. The Anchorite and the Evangelical: Prayer and Learning from the Past
Miss Alicia Smith

4. George Herbert
Dr Simon Jackson

2017-2018

Michaelmas Term (Download descriptions here)

1. Jesus Christ in Martin Luther and Cyril of Alexandria
Professor Johannes Zachuber
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2. Augustine's Women
Miss Kate Cooper
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3. How the Spirit which works in us is known: The science of spiritual states according to Joseph Hazzaya
The Rev'd Jim Barlow
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4. Church Fathers versus Modern Commentators on the Works of Mercy in the New Testament
Professor Nathan Eubank

Hilary Term (Download descriptions here)

1. Bonaventure as an interpreter of the Bible, the sources of his approach, and its significance
The Rev'd Douglas Dales
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2. The Fall and Original Sin: An Orthodox View
Professor Andrew Louth
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3. Longing for Health: Richard Rolle and the Medieval Medicine of Words
Dr Daniel McCann

4. Is Christ's Beatific Vision?
The Rev'd Simon Gaine

Trinity Term (Download descriptions here)

1. V. A. Demant and Christian Sociology
Professor Andrew Louth
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2. Christian and scientific knowing: Recollecting a forgotten dimension
The Rev'd Andrew Moore
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3. Devotion, Real and Stimulated: The Religious Poetry of George Herbert and John Donne
Mr Paul Oliver
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4. A Radical liberal: Dean Stanley of Westminster
The Rev'd John Witheridge
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2016-2017

Michaelmas Term (Download descriptions here)

1. St Augustine: The Concept of Delight and the Contemporary Challenge of Consumerism
The Rev'd Dr Mark Clavier

2. Doxology and Knowledge of the Heart in Augustine's De Doctrina Christiana, book 1
Professor Carol Harrison

3. St Isaac the Syrian: Prophet of the Inner Life
The Most Rev'd Metropolitan Kallistos Ware

Hilary Term (Download descriptions here)

1. Controversialist and nearly-forgotten Spiritual Master
Professor Andrew Louth

2. Anselm's Conception of God
Dr Ian D. Logan
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3. 'Occulus Sacerdotis' - Pastoral Theology and Practice in Late Medieval England
The Rev'd Canon Dr Robin Ward
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4. The Dance of Dante's Paradiso
Dr Brian Williams
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Trinity Term (Download descriptions here)

1. John Henry Cardinal Newman on Vatican II
Dr Ian Ker
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2. Responses to Theological Crisis in the 1960s: Michael Ramsey and E. L. Mascall
Dr Peter Webster
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3. John Wesley: The Man and his Influence on Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
The Rev'd Dr Ralph Waller
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4. John Donne: Apostolic Catholic, Visionary Anglican
Mr Paul Oliver
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2015-2016

Hilary Term (Download descriptions here)

1. God Immanent Yet Transcendent: The Divine Energies According to St Gregory Palamas
The Most Rev'd Metropolitan Kallistos Ware
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2. Evagrius on Divine Ascent
Dr Julia Konstantinovsky
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3. Love as the Seed of Virtue and Vice: The Ardorous Journey of Dante's Purgatoria
Mr Brian Williams
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4. The Resurrection and the Return to God in John Scotus Eriugena
Mr Evan King
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Trinity Term (Download descriptions here)

1. Lancelot Andrewes 'Per Aurem'
Professor Peter McCullough
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2. Untangling Donne's 'Knottie Trinitie'
Mr Paul Oliver
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3. Charles Simeon: A Ministry of Word and Prayer
The Rev'd Vaughan Roberts
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4. John V. Taylor - The Missionary Life
The Rev'd Dr Tim Nash
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