Lectures at Pusey House
please scroll down for a full list of lectures, including our Anglicanism since 1688, and LLF series
Recollection Series 2022
Generally held on the Wednesdays of weeks indicated at 4:00pm in the Chapel of the Resurrection at Pusey House, St Giles, these lectures are also uploaded to YouTube afterwards. Tea and coffee is served beforehand at 3:30pm upstairs in the Hood Room.
For an archive of recordings of past lectures, please click here.
For an archive of recordings of past lectures, please click here.
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Keeping Faith in the MediaWednesday 4 May - 4.00pm
David Campanale is an award-winning journalist for his work in the television arm of the BBC World Service
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the BBC. The British Broadcasting Company, as the BBC was originally called, was formed on 18 October 1922 by a group of leading wireless manufacturers including Marconi. John Reith, a 33-year-old Scottish engineer and Church of Scotland member, was appointed General Manager at the end of 1922. This lecture outlines how Reith’s Calvinism shaped the development of the BBC as the globe’s most respected source of news. When examining the threats to the network’s future, the lecture suggests how Reith might have taken the Corporation back to its founding vision if he were with us today. |
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Where is the World Heading
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Albert Einstein on Science and GodWednesday 18 May- 4.00pm
Prof Alister McGrath is Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at Oxford University, and Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion
This lecture considers the views of Albert Einstein, perhaps the most celebrated scientist of the twentieth century, on the relation of science and God. Where some saw science and religion as being at war with each other, Einstein saw them as distinct areas of knowledge, illuminating different aspects of life. The lecture will consider Einstein’s views on the nature of God (including his criticism of the idea of a personal God), the limits of science, and how science and religion might relate to each other. |
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The Face of the Deep: Christina Rossetti's Reflections on RevelationWednesday 1 June- 4.00pm
Dr Rebekah Vince is a lecturer in French at Queen Mary University of London.
‘O our God, teach us to trust Thee that knowledge and ignorance may be alike welcome to us when of Thine appointing. What we know we know only in part; what we know not Thou knowest altogether’. This prayer is taken from Victorian poet and Puseyite Christina Rossetti's The Face of the Deep: A Devotional Commentary on the Apocalypse, which combines theological reflection with poetic expression to contemplate the Alpha and Omega of our faith. These prayerful words summarise her poetic philosophy – or theology – of what I call ‘positive incapability’, a reimagining of John Keats’ ‘negative capability’. Positive incompatibility is living between the now and not yet of knowing – in the Pauline sense of seeing through a glass darkly – as we await beatification. Rossetti’s theology resonates with the Oxford Movement’s doctrine of ‘reserve’. In the Tracts for the Times series, ‘reserve’ is defined as ‘an indication that intellect grounds faith; an enhancer rather than opposer of revelation’ (Mason, 2002), within an Anglo-Catholic tradition of apprehending, rather than fully comprehending, the mystery of godliness. |
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On Cardinal NewmanWednesday 15 June- 4.00pm
Ludwig Cardinal Müller served as the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) from his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012 until 2017. He was created and proclaimed cardinal by Pope Francis in 2014. Between 1986 and 2002, His Eminence was Professor of Dogmatic Theology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. He served for many years as the Bishop of Regensburg.
Ludwig Cardinal Müller has engaged in Christian ministry both as a priest and as an academic, specialising in systematic and dogmatic theology. His Eminence has a longstanding admiration for the life and work of Cardinal Newman, and the birth of his mature thinking within the Oxford Movement. Over the past few years, he has visited Oxford a number of times, both to walk in the steps of Cardinal Newman and to engage in academic exchanges on matters of faith and culture. On this visit he will deliver a lecture on Cardinal Newman as a man, a thinker, and a theologian. |
Anglicanism Since 1688
Generally held on the Thursdays of weeks indicated at 4:00pm at Pusey House, St Giles. Tea and coffee is served beforehand at 3:30pm upstairs in the Hood Room.
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Right in Front of our Eyes: A New View of the English ReformationThursday 12 May- 4.00pm
The Rev’d Prof Diarmaid N.J. MacCulloch is Senior Research Fellow in Church History and Archivist at Campion Hall, Oxford, and Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow at St Cross College, Oxford.
This lecture looks at the church buildings and the history of the Church of England, to make a surprising connection that helps us understand both buildings and history a little better. |
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The Joy of Sex and the Church of EnglandThursday 9 June- 4.00pm
The Rev’d Canon Prof Mark Chapman is Vice-Principal of Ripon College, Cuddesdon, and Professor of the History of Modern Theology.
This lecture discusses the changing approaches of the Church of England to sex, sexuality, and sexual pleasure through the twentieth century. |
Living in Love and Faith Series
As a cautious first step in engaging with the Church of England’s controversial Living in Love and faith document, we are beginning a series of talks presented from different starting points in pursuit of a fuller understanding of sexuality in the Body of Christ.
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The Beatitude of God and the Good of MarriageMonday 16 May- 6.05pm
Matthew L. Anderson is Assistant Professor of Ethics and Theology at Baylor University
What is the moral status of marriage and procreation for the Christian community? Few questions are more contentious. In this talk, Matthew Anderson will advance four theses for argument and discussion aimed at articulating why Christians should only extend their blessing to marriages between men and women. |
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The Bride and the Lamb- Sex, Sacraments, and SalvationMonday 30 May- 6.05pm
The Ven. Luke Miller is the Archdeacon of London
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