Research Seminar Archive

MARTINMAS 2024

SEPTEMBER

20 September Dr Jane Pettegree (St Andrews), ‘Church Music at the Crossroads: Hymn Lists as Practical Ministry’

27 September Dr Dennis Bray (St Andrews), ‘The Artist in the Body of Christ’

OCTOBER

4 October Amanda Watson (St Peter’s & St Paul’s Church, Edgefield), ‘Seeing the Real in Site-responsive Painting’

11 October Jarek Jankowski (St Andrews), ‘Analogy and Image in Austin Farrer’

18 October Dr Chelle Stearns (The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology), ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs: Trauma, Music, and Theology’

INDEPENDENT LEARNING WEEK

NOVEMBER

1 November Dr Pehr Englén (University of Freiburg), ‘In Search of Lost Mystery: Lars Gustafsson’s Turn Away from Secularism’

8 November The George MacDonald Bicentenary Conference

*13 November (WED) The Annual St Margaret of Scotland Lecture (Parliament Hall, 4.00 p.m.)

22 November Dr Daniel A. Siedell (Stockholm School of Theology), ‘Vitrine: The Sovereign Void and the Archeiropoietic Gesture’

29 November Dr Alistair Rider (School of Art History, University of St Andrews), ‘Ongoing: reflections on long-term art projects’

REVISION WEEK

Candlemas 2024

January

19 January Professor David Brown (St Andrews), ‘Truth in Religious Painting’

26 January Dr Caleb Froehlich (St Andrews), ‘Objects for Art and Peacebuilding among Ukrainians and Edinburgh Locals’

February

2 February Charles Howell (St Andrews), ”So They Call You an Outlaw’: Theology, Play, and Outlaw Country in Cecil Allen Moore’

9 February Professor Alison Milbank (Nottingham), ‘‘All things that be, praise him:’ Natural Agency and Liturgical Participation in the Poetry of Henry Vaughan’

16 February Annie Konzelman (St Andrews), ‘Revelation in the Southern Gothic Literary Imagination’

INDEPENDENT LEARNING WEEK (26 Feb – 3 March)

March

8 March (Senior Common Room), ITIA Fireside Chat with Professor George Pattison on Conversations with Dostoevsky, 5.30 p.m.

15 March Dr Bill Hyland (St Andrews), ‘Mariological Imagery in the Sermons of Nicholas of Cusa’

20 March (Old Psychology Library), The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer), 6. 00 p.m.

22 March Melody Bellefeuille-Frost (St Andrews), ‘Images of Christ in 16th and 17th-Century Japan’

29 March Dr Andrew Tate (Lancaster University), ‘Resurrection Blues: The Cultural Afterlives of Lazarus’

April

5 April Dante Clementi (St Andrews), ‘ “Love, Reading, and the Ontology of Literature: Kierkegaard and New Phenomenological Criticism.’

2 August 2023 ITIA Round Table with Lord Rowan Williams **To register, see the link, here

Martinmas Seminar 2023

September

22 September Prof Philip Esler (University of St Andrews & Gloucester) and Prof Angus Pryor (University of Gloucestershire), ‘Painting 1 Enoch’.

29 September Dr Benjamin Shute (St Andrews), ‘Image and Incarnation in German Baroque Instrumental Music’.

October

6 October Dr. Tom Docherty, ‘Music as Preternatural in Geoffrey Hill’s Poetry’

13 October Dr. King-Ho Leung (St Andrews), ‘Taylor Swift – On Repeat.’

INDEPENDENT LEARNING WEEK (16 – 22 October)

27 October Dr Christine Lee (Shanghai Normal University), ‘Anthropology and the Catholic Imagination in E. E. Evans-Pritchard and Victor Turner.’

November

3 November Dr Sarah Leith (St Andrews), ‘Rocks and Realities: Mountain Literature in Modern Scotland’

10 November Professor Ian Bradley (St Andrews), ‘There is a happy land, far, far away: Victorian Hymns about Heaven’

*15 November (Wednesday): St Margaret of Scotland Lecture with Professor Jennifer Newsome Martin (Notre Dame) Parliament Hall, 4:00 p.m.This event is free and open to the public but registration is required. See the following link, here.

17 November: Workshop with Professor Jennifer Newsome Martin (Notre Dame) on ‘The Carmelite Subject: ‘Fiction’ and the Metaphysics of Contemplation.’ Space is limited so please register, here. Registrants will receive a copy of the assigned reading well in advance of the workshop.

28 November (Tuesday): Fireside Chat with Professor Judith Wolfe. Location and time, TBD.

Candlemas Seminar 2023

January

20 January: *POSTPONED* Dr Benjamin Shute (Laidlaw Music Centre, University of St Andrews)

27 January: Dr Andrew Horn (School of Art History, University of St Andrews), ‘Sculpture as Theatre: the Lamentation in Lombardy, c. 1480-1550′.

February

3 February: Dr Joanna Bullivant (Faculty of Music, University of Oxford), ‘Musical Oratory and Imaginative Assent: Towards an Understanding of Elgar’s Catholic Imagination’.

10 February: Peter and Heidi Gardner (Independent visual artists, Glasgow), ‘The Hallowing of Making: a contemporary art practice’. n.b.: this seminar will take place from 1.30–2.45 pm.

17 February: Carlotta Moro, PhD Candidate (Dept of Italian, University of St Andrews), ‘Faith and Proto-Feminism in the Works of Moderata Fonte (1555-1592) and Lucrezia Marinella (1571–1653)’.

24 February: Prof. Richard H. Roberts (New College, University of Edinburgh), ‘Eschatology and Ecstasis: Is “Systematic Theology” Possible in an Age of Catastrophe?’

March

3 March: Spring Break (no seminar)

10 March: Dr Lance Green (ITIA, University of St Andrews), ‘The Transfiguration of Death in Eugene Vodolazkin’s Laurus‘.

17 March: Patrick McGlinchey (ITIA, University of St Andrews), ‘A Christian Philosophy of Art?’.

24 March: Dr Giles Waller (University of Cambridge), ‘Ambivalence, paradox, and eschatology in J.S. Bach’.

31 March: Dr Kathryn Wehr (University of St Thomas, St Paul, MN), ‘Dorothy L. Sayers’s Trinity of the Artist and the Making of The Man Born to be King: Wade Annotated Edition‘.

Martinmas Seminar 2022

September

23 September: Professor Mark Knight (Lancaster University), ‘The Confessions of Oscar Wilde’.
30 September: Professor Clare Carlisle (King’s College London), ‘George Eliot meets Fra Angelico’.

October

7 October: Dr Mark Porter (University of Erfurt), ‘Changing Ecological Relationships and Christian Musical Innovation’.
14 October: Dr Mary W. McCampbell (Lee University), ‘The Empathetic Imagination: How Art Can Help Us Love Our Enemies’.
21 October – Independent Learning Week (no seminar)
28 October: Professor David Jasper and Professor Jeremy J. Smith (University of Glasgow), ‘The Victorian Invention of Medieval Liturgy: a case study in cultural appropriation’.

November

4 November: Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford), ‘Gandalf’s Fall and Return: the Death of the Author, Creative Collaboration, and the Arising of Prophecy’.
11 November: Professor Margot Fassler (University of Notre Dame), ‘Cutting and Pasting in Mons: A 16th-century Antiphoner in the Hesburgh Library and Its Contexts’.
16 November: Professor Randy Boyagoda (University of Toronto), ‘Favourite Books and Fatal Books: The Life and Death Consequences of Reading, in Dante and Beyond’.
25 November: Dr Oliver B. Langworthy (University of St Andrews), ‘The Musicality of Salvation’.

Candlemas Seminar 2022

January

28 – Dr Lenia Kouneni (Art History, University of St Andrews), ‘Exploring transcultural and monastic relations in a late Dugento triptych’

February

4 – Dr Chris Grey (Open University), ‘Musical beauty and Maritain: Constructing a Thomist Philosophy’.
11 – Professor Peter Howard (Australian Catholic University), ‘The visual art of preaching: Theology and the Sistine Chapel Wall Frescoes.’
18 – Dr Donovan McAbee (Belmont University), ‘Finding Words for the Things You Have No Words For: Creative Writing as a Spiritual Practice’
25 – Independent Learning Week (No Research Seminar)

March

4 – Dr Tim deJong (Baylor University), ‘Between Poet and Poem: T.S. Eliot’s Lyric Self.’
11 – Professor Anthony O’Hear (University of Buckingham), ‘“From mirrored truths the likeness of the True”: Reflections on Myth’.
18 – Professor Thomas Pfau (Duke University), ‘Modern Literature and Christian Theology’
25 – Joel Clarkson (ITIA, University of St Andrews), ‘Dark Annunciation: Marian Theology of Silence, Conflict and Incarnate Presence in James MacMillan’s Music’

April

1 – Dr Rebecca Walker (Modern Languages, University of St Andrews), ‘Godlessness in the Writing of Elena Ferrante’
8 – Dr Jessica Hooten Wilson (Dallas), ‘How to Read Like Dorothy Sayers’

Martinmas Seminar 2021

September

24 – Dr Natasha O’Hear (ITIA), ‘Reversing Babel? ‘Genesis 11, Bruegel’s Tower of Babel, and the EU.’

October

1- ITIA will join St. Andrews’ Art in Conversation: Seminar 10 on Music
How do we engage cognitively and emotionally with music? We will discuss mechanisms of music processing involving multidisciplinary approaches to music perception and experience.
Speakers:
Julia Merrill, PhD, Systematic musicologist, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
Eric Clarke, Heather Professor of Music, University of Oxford
This session will run on Teams via 3:30pm to 5:00 p.m. Please contact Dr. Nicole Ruta at [email protected] if you would like to join.
8- Prof. Philip Mitchell (Dallas Baptist University), ‘“An Inner Meaning”? C. S. Lewis and Rival Versions of Metahistory’. 2:00 p.m. to 3: 15 p.m. (BST)
15- Dr Joel Mayward (George Fox University), ‘The Dardenne Brothers’ Cinematic Parables: Integrating Theology, Philosophy, and Film’.
Independent learning week
29 – Prof. Bennett Zon (Durham), ‘Elgar as Theology.’

November

5- Dr Michael Ward (Oxford), ‘Reflections on The Abolition of Man’.
12-Erik Eklund (Nottingham), ‘Redemption and Metafiction after Lolita’.
19- Dr Chris Grey (Open University), ‘Musical beauty and Maritain: Constructing a Thomist philosophy’ (POSTPONED)
26- Dr Lori Branch (Iowa), “Secularism, Religion, and the Novel.” (11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m., GMT).

Candlemas Seminar 2021

January

29 – Natasha Duquette (Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College), ‘Contemplative Sublimity from Mère Marie-Angélique Arnauld to Jane Austen’.

February

5 – Judith Wolfe (St Andrews), ‘Inspiration and Imagination’ (Metaphysics & Poetics, Joint-St Andrews and Cambridge Seminar)
12 – Jacob Phillips (St Mary’s University), ”John Henry Newman and the English Sensibility’
19 – (1-2.30pm) Young-Jin Hur and Emily Brady, ‘The Sublime’ (Art in Conversation)
26 – Sarah Stewart-Kroeker (University of Geneva), ‘Apocalyptic Artwork and Aesthetic Dissonance’

March

5 – Jean-Luc Marion (Paris and Chicago), ‘Phenomenality and Revelation’ (Metaphysics & Poetics, Joint-St Andrews and Cambridge Seminar)
12 – (1-2.30pm) Ines Schindler and Eva-Maria Konrad, ‘Emotions and Art’ (Art in Conversation)
19 – Oliver Crisp (St Andrews), ‘Theology in Shadow: Sin and Redemption in Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea‘

Spring Break (22 March to 2 April)

April

9 – (1pm to 2.30pm) Robert Pepperell and Liliana Albertazzi, ‘Image properties: consciousness and art’ (Art in Conversation)
16 – There is no ITIA research seminar this week.
23 – (1pm to 2.30pm) Vittorio Gallese and Shaun Gallagher, ‘Embodied Cognition and Art’ (Art in Conversation)

Martinmas Seminar 2020

September

18 – Dr Rebekah Lamb (St Andrews), Group discussion of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Aesthetics (Vol 1). Excerpts TBC.
25 – Dr Giuseppe Pezzini (St Andrews), ‘The Cats of Queen Berúthiel: Tolkien and the Philology of Creation’.

October

2 – Prof. Richard Kearney (Boston College), Plenary Speaker at the ‘Art, Desire, and God ’ Conference (University of Notre Dame), with Discussion Forum.
9 (1:30-3:00 pm) – Prof. Catherine Pickstock (Cambridge), “Introduction to the Series: Metaphysics and Poetics”; Steven Toussaint (Cambridge), “Redeeming Poetics” (Metaphysics & Poetics, Joint-St Andrews and Cambridge Seminar)
16 (This Seminar will begin at 9:30 a.m. BST) – Prof. Renée Köhler-Ryan (The University of Notre Dame Australia), ‘Not Spectacle but Self-Reflection: The Augustinian Catholic Imagination’.
Independent Learning Week (no seminar)
30 – (1pm – 2.45 pm) Karen McClain Kiefer (ITIA, St Andrews), ‘The Holy Risk of Improvisation: The Liminal Meets the Ephemeral’.

November

6 (1:30-3:00 pm) – Rowan Williams (Cambridge), “Negative Theology: some misunderstandings” Metaphysics and Poetics (Metaphysics & Poetics, Joint-St Andrews and Cambridge Seminar)
13 – (1pm-2.45pm) – Dr George Corbett (St Andrews), ‘Dante’s Christian Ethics: Purgatory and Its Moral Contexts (CUP, 2020)’: ITIA Book Launch and Discussion.
20 (1:30-3:00 pm) – Dr John Betz (Notre Dame), “The Metaphysical Imagination: Toward an Analogical Poetics” Metaphysics and Poetics (Metaphysics & Poetics, Joint-St Andrews and Cambridge Seminar)
27 – (1pm-2.45pm) – Prof. George Pattison (Glasgow), ‘The End of Art and the Prosaics of Love’.

Candlemas Seminar 2020

January

31 – Dr King-Ho Leung (University of St Andrews), ‘On Everything and Nothing: Sartre’s Ontology and Atheistic Transcendentality’.’

February

7 – Dr Holly Ordway (Houston Baptist University), ‘Tolkien’s Modern Reading.’
14 – Dr Tim O’Malley (University of Notre Dame), ‘Aesthetic Perception in the Liturgical Act.’
21 – Prof. John Milbank (University of Nottingham), ‘Re-imagining Imagination.’
28 – Dr Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft (University of Cambridge), ‘Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Theology of Finitude.’

March

6 – Dr Rebecca Langworthy (Independent Scholar), ‘Walking through the Lands of Death: Representations of Other-Worlds in Nineteenth-Century Scottish Writing.’
13 – Cancelled – Prof. Steve Guthrie (Belmont University), ‘A Pneumatology of Sound.’

April

3 – Cancelled – Maria Redondo (Universidad Francisco de Vitoria), ‘Recovering the ‘Discarded Image’: C.S. Lewis’ Response to Modernity’
17 – Cancelled – Professor Natasha Duquette (Tyndale University), ‘Contemplative Sublimity from Mère Angélique Arnauld to Immanuel Kant.’

Martinmas Term 2019

September

20 – Dan Drage (ITIA), ‘Looking Into Matter: Encasing the Material and Immaterial of Sculpture and Scripture’.
27 – Prof. Simon Gilson (Oxford), Prof. Lino Pertile (Harvard), Prof. Zygmunt G. Barański (Notre Dame), on Faith and Love in Dante

October

4 – Dr Christopher Wojtulewicz (KU Leuven), ‘Resurrected Flesh: Analogy and the Frustration of the Imagination’.
11 – Dr Giuseppe Pezzini (St Andrews), ‘Beren and Frodo: Tolkien and the Universality of the Particular’.
18 – Joy Clarkson (ITIA), ‘Greeting Death as a Friend: Harry Potter as Affective Practice’.

Independent Reading Week (No Research Seminar)

November

1 – Dr Taylor Knight (Institut Catholique de Paris), ‘Greek Cosmogonies and Phenomenological Accounts of Beginnings: Heidegger, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty’.
8 – Jean Lamb (artist), ‘The Stations of the Holocaust: Representation for All: An artistic legacy from New Testament texts as interpreted by Identity Politics’.
15 – Dr Elizabeth Ludlow (Anglia Ruskin University), ‘Prayer, Praxis, and Christology in Josephine Butler’s Catherine of Siena: A Biography (1878)’.
22 – Dr Nicole Blackwood (Savannah College of Art and Design), ‘Was Made Flesh: Painting the Madonna and Child.’

Candlemas Term 2019

February

8 – Dr Peter O’Hagan (University of Toronto), ”Every Page of the Scriptures Witnesses’: The Trinity and the Bible in Peter Lombard’s Theological Imagination.’
15 – Dr Bruce Benson (St Andrews), ‘Liturgy as Fundamental Structure’
22 – Prof. Richard McGregor, ‘James MacMillan’s Changing Musical ‘Translations’ of the Passion Narrative’

March

1 – Dr Dan Hitchens (Deputy Editor, Catholic Herald), ‘The Theology of Quotidian Hackwork: Reflections on Samuel Johnson Today’
8 – Dr Natalie Carnes (Baylor University), ”Why this Waste?’: Art and Excess in a World of Need’
15 – Prof. Susannah Monta (University of Notre Dame), ‘Reading the Rosary in Post-Reformation England’

Spring break

April

5 – Prof. Sabine Hyland (St Andrews), ‘The Knotted Landscape: Khipus, Rituals and the Senses in an Andean Village’
12 – Dr Louise Nelstrop (St. Benet’s Hall, Oxford), ”Complete Surrender’: A Short Documentary Film on Artistic Dialogues with Mystics and Love’
19 – Good Friday; no seminar
26 – Dr Stephen Tardif (University of Toronto), ‘The Dative Reduction: Hopkins’ Sacrificial Aesthetics’

Martinmas Term 2018

September

21 – Colin Jager (Rutgers), ‘Seeing What God Sees: Marilynne Robinson, Terrence Malick, and the Ontological Turn’
28 – Julian Perlmutter (Cambridge), ‘Against Kivy: Sacred Music and Affective Response’

October

5 – Maria Apichella (poet), ‘Modern Psalmists: a scholar-practitioner’s exploration of metaphor in the Psalms’
10 – Micheal O’Siadhall (poet), A Reading from ‘The Five Quintets‘, at 7pm in the Senior Common Room, St Mary’s College
12 – Beppe Pezzini (Classics), ‘The Lords of the West: Tolkien and the poetics of veiling’
19 – Maggie Dawn (Yale Divinity School), ‘Writing the Self: Theology as Memoir’.

Reading Week

November

2 – June Boyce-Tillman (Winchester), ‘Queering Freedom: Music, Identity and Christian theology’
9 – Ian Bradley (St Andrews), ‘Sweet and Low – the Theology of the (mostly) Victorian Hymn Tune’
16 – Rozelle Bosch (Cambridge),’Incarnational Performances: Re-reading Pneumatology for the Sake of a Participationist Anthropology’?
23 – Giulio Pertile (St Andrews),‘Devotional Phenomenology in the Poetry of Richard Crashaw and Giambattista Marino’

Candlemas Term 2018

February

9 – Dr William P. Hyland (ITIA), ‘Old Testament Typology, and the Gospel Canticles in the Liturgy and Life of the Church.’
16 – Dr Rachel Toombs (Baylor University), ‘Blessed Wounding: Theological Implications of Flannery O’Connor’s Spare Narrative Style.’
23 – Dr Rebekah Lamb (University of Toronto), ‘”Suspended in Time”: The Pre-Raphaelites, Christina Rossetti and the Problem of Boredom.’

March

2 – Dr Dan Hitchens (Deputy Editor, Catholic Herald), ‘The Theology of Quotidian Hackwork: Reflections on Johnson Today.’ [POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER CONDITIONS]
9 – Prof. John Haldane (St Andrews / Baylor), ‘Transcendence and Experience.’
16 – Penny Warden (Artist), ‘The Journey and Beyond: The risk and challenge of producing permanent art for a sacred space.’

Spring Vacation

April

6 – Dr Giulio Pertile (St Andrews), ‘Life and Literature in the Phenomenology of Michel Henry.’ [CANCELLED]
13 – Prof. N.T. Wright (St Andrews),’Francisco de Zuberán’s Paintings of Jacob and his Twelve Sons.’
20 – Dr Richard McLauchlan, ‘Silence, the Arts, and Spiritual Discipline: Thoughts after R.S. Thomas.’
27 – Prof. Peter Bouteneff (St Vladimir’s Seminary), on the music of Arvo Pärt.

Martinmas Term 2017

September

22 – Dr Michael Hurley (Cambridge), ‘Faith and Poetic Assent’
29 – Dr Giuseppe Pezzini (St Andrews), ‘The Authors of Middle Earth: Tolkien and Literature as Discovery.’

October

6 – Prof. Ann Loades (Honorary Professorial Fellow, St Chad’s College, Durham), ‘”He stinks”: Responses to the Gospel / horror of John 11’
13 – Prof. Jeremy Begbie (Duke Divinity School), ‘An Awkward Witness in a Worded World: Reflections on Music and Language in Luther and Bach’
20 – Dr Madhavi Nevader (Divinity, St Andrews), ‘Annunciations’

Reading Week

November

3 – Prof. Robin Kirkpatrick (Cambridge), ‘Performance in Theology and Verse: A Reading of Dante and his Followers’
10 – Prof. Daniel Smith-Christopher (Loyola Marymount), ‘The Bible and Blues: A Tale of Two Deltas’
17 – Mark Cazalet (Visual Artist), ‘To Open Eyes: God’s Dazzling Darkness’
24 – Prof. Jane Dawson (Edinburgh), ‘Music, Reformation and the Psalms’

Candlemas Term 2017

February

3 – Prof. Paul Mealor (Aberdeen), on setting religious texts to music
10 – Dr Sam Rose (St Andrews), ‘Reflections on the historiography of modern art and religion in Britain’
17 – Prof. Angela Leighton (Cambridge), on religious poetry v. poetry of belief
24 – Prof. Trevor Hart (ITIA), ‘The light that never goes out: The theologies of George MacDonald and F.D. Maurice (with occasional reference to Thomas Erskine of Linlathen)’

March

3 – Prof. Sir James MacMillan (ITIA)
10 – Dr Julian Luxford (St Andrews), ‘Relics in the Late Middle Ages, at Westminster Abbey and elsewhere’
31 – Rebecca Langworthy (Aberdeen), ‘Addiction, Punishment and Redemption in the Works of George MacDonald’

April

7 – Revd Scott S McKenna (St Andrews), ‘George Matheson: 19th century Scottish mystic.’
14 – Dr Imogen Adkins, ‘Donald MacKinnon’s Revisionary Metaphysics: An Introduction and Musical Engagement’

Martinmas Term 2016

September

23 – Dr Frances Clemson (Durham), ‘”The continual showing forth of God’s act in history”: Dorothy L. Sayers in dialogue with Charles Williams.’
30 – Dr Michael Downes (Director of Music, St Andrews), ‘Biblical Oratorio and Handel’s Jephtha: A Musician’s Perspective.’

October

7 – Myriam Frenkel (Oxford), ‘Editing Warnie Lewis’s Lost Memoir of his Brother C.S. Lewis.’
14 – Dr Joe Moshenska (Cambridge), ‘Iconoclasm as Child’s Play.’
21 – Dr David M. Moffitt (St Andrews), ‘But We Do See Abel: Hebrews and Depictions of Abel’s Sacrifice in Some Mosaics in Ravenna.’
28 – Brett Speakman (ITIA), ‘The Restless Heart: Apologetics, Imagination & the Nexus of Desire.’

November

4 – Dr George Corbett (ITIA), ‘TheoArtistry, and Theologian-Composer Partnerships.’
11 – Dr Elizabeth Powell (Cambridge), ‘“A Living Lettering”: The Art of the Incarnate Word and David Jones’.
18 – Andrew Moss (Durham), ‘Improvising on the Canon: Jazz, the Bible and American Popular Culture’.

Candlemas Term 2016

February

5 – Ian Bradley (St Andrews): ‘“It may be that only in heaven I shall hear that grand Amen”: Arthur Sullivan, Adelaide Procter and the Victorian love-affair with death’
12 – Clare Hornsby (Benedictus): ‘Art, Culture and Faith: Against a “Heresy of Formlessness”‘
19 – David Brown (ITIA): ‘Baptism, and Water as Cosmological Symbol’
26 – Thomas Brauer (ITIA): ‘A Tender Brutality; Sentimentality and Photography’

March

4 – Steve Knowles (Chester): ‘Accelerated Modernity and the End of the End Times’
11 – Katie Edwards (Sheffield): ‘Bad Times for the Good Book? Biblical Literacies and Popular Culture’

April

1 – Gisela Kreglinger (ITIA): ‘The Five Senses at Play in Christian Worship’
8 – Wentzel van Huyssteen (Princeton): ‘Wagner and Theology’
15 – Paul S. Fiddes (Oxford): ‘Tragic Drama and Tragic Theology’
22 – Mark Wynn (Leeds): ‘Theology and the Arts: Some Thoughts Drawn from Thomas Aquinas’

Martinmas Term 2015

September

18 – Natasha O’Hear (ITIA): “After the Apocalypse: Images of the New Jerusalem”
25 – Bill Hyland (St Andrews): “The stained glass ‘Biblia Pauperum’ windows of Steinfeld Abbey: Monastic spirituality, salvation history, and the theological imagination”

October

2 – Rev Ian McPherson: “‘As kingfishers catch fire’: Learning to celebrate complex unities with Gerard Manley Hopkins”
9 – Marlene Creates (Canadian artist): “Tuning and being tuned by a patch of boreal forest in Newfoundland”
16 – Fernando Cervantes (Bristol): “Theology vs. secularising readings of Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Montaigne”
23 – Martin Warner (Warwick): “Reasoning in transitions: Charles Taylor and the Good Samaritan”
30 – Elizabeth Anderson (Stirling): “Sacred stones: objects and spirituality in Mary Butts’s life writing”

November

6 – Douglas Hedley (Cambridge): “Images of the End”
13 – Bennett Zon (Durham): “Music and theology in the 19th Century”
20 – Denny Kinlaw (ITIA): “‘Art’s Heart’s Purpose’: The Recuperative Dimension of the Fiction of David Foster Wallace”
27 – George Corbett (ITIA): “Visualising and living Scripture: A theological reading of Dante’s Terrace of Pride“

Candlemas Term 2015

January

30 – Graham Ward (Oxford): “Mythic Forests: Malick and Cameron”

February

6 – Richard Bell (Nottingham): “Renunciation of the will and the ‘sublime’ in Wagner’s Siegfried Act III Scene 1”
13 – No seminar
20 – KJ Swanson (ITIA): “”God Did Not Give Me My Life To Throw Away”: Reading the Fiction of Charlotte Brontë Through Contemporary Feminist Theology”
27 – Michael Law (St Andrews): “Theology Against Empire: Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, and the Poetry of Black Resistance”

March

6 – Giles Waller (Cambridge): “Suffering Knowledge and the Wound of Sin: The Theological Interpretation of Tragedy”
13 – Chloë Reddaway (National Gallery): “Re-Visiting Creation: Images of the Visitation and the New Creation in Christ”

April

3 – Mark Edwards (Oxford): “Variations on the Fall”
10 – Gavin Hopps (ITIA): “Being in Tune: Popular Music and Spilt Religion”
17 – James Crocker (Oxford): “Religiously motivated violence in films”
24 – Catherine Fox (novelist): “Fiction: An Exercise in the Capacity for Imaginative Love? The Role Novels Play in Exploring Contentious Issues”

May

1 – Alison Milbank (Nottingham): “Make it New’: David Jones as Christian Modernist”
8 – James MacMillan (composer)

Martinmas Term 2014

September

19 – Professor David Brown (ITIA), ‘Finding God in Secular Music’
26 – Dr Sabine Hyland (University of St Andrews), ‘Sacred Strings: Corded Khipu Texts in Andean Religion, c. 1400-1930’

October

3 – Timothy Allen (ITIA), ‘Heaven, Imagination and Popular Culture’
10 – Dr Judith Wolfe (ITIA), ‘The Theological Imagination: Some Conceptual Considerations’
17 – Assistant Professor Natalie Carnes (Baylor University), ‘Iconoclastic Iconophilia: Meditations on the Golden Calf and the Return of Christ’
24 – Dr Jessica Frazier (University of Kent), ‘The Sum of Exquisite Structures: A Gadamerian Account of Beauty, Narrative, and the ‘New’ Pantheism’
31 – Dr Mark O’Neill (Director of Glasgow Life)

November

7 – Donald Jackson (Calligrapher and Senior Illuminator to the Crown Office of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II), ‘The Saint John’s Bible’
14 – Sarah Maple (ITIA)
21 – Dr Patrick Madigan (Heythrop Journal), ‘Expressive Individualism, the Cult of the Artist as Genius and Milton’s Lucifer’
28 – Dr Chris Deacy (University of Kent), ‘“Home Alone” at Christmas? Festive Films as a Repository of Sacred and Theological Activity’

December

5 – Dr Thomas Rist (University of Aberdeen), ‘Mary of Recusants and Reform: Literary Memory and Defloration in Early Modern England’

Candlemas Term 2014

January

31 – Deborah Lewer (University of Glasgow), ‘Visualising Revelation in the Face of War and Fascism: Max Beckmann’s “Apocalypse” 1941-3’

February

7 – Geoffrey Stevenson (University of Edinburgh), ‘Wordless Rhetoric: The Problem and the Potential of “Agit-Prop” Mime Theatre’
14 – Chris Brewer (ITIA), ‘Jonathan Borofsky and Natural Theology’
21 – Trevor Hart (ITIA), ‘Between the Image and the Word’
28 – Malcolm Guite (University of Cambridge), ‘Shipwreck is Everywhere: The Poetry of Theology’

March

7 – Michael Sadgrove (Dean of Durham), ‘Theology and Photography: Towards a Conversation’
14 – Richard Giles, ‘From Theology to Liturgy: Philadelphia and Beyond’
21 – Spring Break – No Seminar
28 – Spring Break – No Seminar

April

4 – No Seminar
11 – Cole Matson (ITIA), ‘Towards a Eucharistic Theatre: The Rhapsodic Theatre & Grotowski’s Lab in Conversation’
18 – Good Friday – No Seminar
25 – George Pattison (University of Glasgow), ‘Eternal Memory in Proust and Dostoevsky’

May

2 – Tanya Walker (ITIA), ‘Real Presence or Re-Presented Absence? The Ephemeral Work of Art in Dialogue with the Eucharist’
9 – Andrew Moss, ‘Learning to Improvise: Towards a Theology of Play’

Martinmas Term 2013

September

20 – Professor David Brown (ITIA), ‘Experiencing the Sacred in Galleries and Museums’
27 – Dr Gisela Kreglinger (ITIA), ‘Sustenance and Sustainability: A Spirituality of Wine’

October

4 – Dr Alison Jack (University of Edinburgh), ‘Light and Dark in the Testament of Gideon Mack and Other Texts: A Peculiarly Scottish Perspective’
11 – Professor Norman Klassen (St Jerome’s University), ‘Rowan Williams on the Arts’
18 – Professor Jane Dawson (University of Edinburgh), ‘Music, Purgatory and the Psalms: An Unusual Reformation Cocktail’
25 – Dr Bridget Nichols (Lay Chaplain to the Bishop of Ely), ‘Bound or Free? The Theological Imagination at Work and Play in the Liturgy’

November

1 – Dr Eva Baillie (Goethe Institut, Glasgow), ‘Facing the Fiend: Satan as Literary Character’
8 – Professor Patrick Sherry (Lancaster University), ‘Wonder’
15 – Dr Rowan Williams (Magdalene College, Cambridge): ‘Christ in Contemporary Fiction’
22 – Professor David Jasper (University of Glasgow), ‘Finding the Otherness of God in Literature’
29 – No Seminar – Graduation Day

December

6 – Dr John Pazdziora (ITIA), ‘Knowing Magic Makes You a Sage. George MacDonald and the So-called Sacramental Imagination’
13 – Ms Sara Schumacher (ITIA), ‘The Patron-as-Collaborator and the Artist-as-Patron: Contemporary Church Arts Patronage in Scotland’
20 – The Revd Jonathan Mason (All Saints’, St Andrews), ‘Painting the Incarnation’

Candlemas Term 2013

February

1 – George Parsons (University of Sheffield), ‘Finding Tropes of Hope: A Theologically-Orientated Analysis and Interpretation of the Ballad by James MacMillan’
8 – Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin (independent scholar), ‘From the Abstract Spiritual to the Concrete Material: The Turn to Embodied Religion in Contemporary Postmodern Art’
15 – Timothy Bartel (ITIA), ‘“Between the Stars and the Fireflies”: The Theological Vision of Longfellow’s Evangeline’
22 – Jo Carruthers (Lancaster University), ‘Protestant Aesthetics and English Simplicity: The Problem of Ruskin’s Gothic’

March

1 – Douglas Hogg (Artist), ‘Darkly, through a Glass: Seeds and Stems / Roots and Shoots’
8 – Travis Buchanan (ITIA), ‘Truth Incarnate: Story as Sacrament in J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis’
15 – Joel D. S. Rasmussen (University of Oxford), ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in America’

April

5 – Christopher Partridge (Lancaster University), ‘Haunted Culture: The Persistence of Belief in the Paranormal’
12 – Jolyon Mitchell (University of Edinburgh), ‘Passion Play: The Mysterious Revivals of Religious Drama’
19 – Tim Gorringe (University of Exeter), ‘The Theological Significance of Peasants in Western Art from the 14th to the 19th Centuries’
26 – Michael O’Neill (Durham University), TBC

Martinmas Term 2012

September

28 – Fr Lawrence Lew OP (University Chaplain, Edinburgh), ‘The Theology and Metaphysics of the Gothic Cathedral’

October

5 – J.A.C. Redford (composer), ‘’Welcome All Wonders: A Composer’s Journey’
12 – Dave Reinhardt (ITIA), ‘God with us?: Discerning the Presence of the Divine in Embodied Expression’
19 – Jonathan Koestle-Cate (Goldsmiths College), TBC

November

2 – Katie Bradley (ITIA), ‘Forbidden Broadway: A Theological Engagement with Popular Culture’
9 – Simon Marsden (Lancaster), ‘Emily Brontë and the Religious Imagination’
16 – Yvonne Sherwood (Glasgow), ‘Biblical Blaspheming: Trials of the Sacred for a “Secular” Age’
23 – Bernard Beatty (Liverpool/St Andrews), ‘Henry Vaughan’s Nicodemus’
30 – Elaine Graham (Chester), ‘Jews, Pagans, Sceptics and Emperors: Public Theology as Christian Apologetics’

Candlemas Term 2012

February

10 – Graham Maule (Artist, Wild Goose Resource Group), ‘Sacred Games: Art Praxis as a Tactical Ritual Process’
17 – Elijah Wade Smith (ITIA, St Andrews), ‘Pop music as “parables of the kingdom of God”: A theological rationale for positive engagement with popular and independent music’
24 – Peter Candler (Department of Religion, Baylor University), ‘The World Is against Us: Charles Péguy and the Modern Age’

March

2 – David Evans (School of Modern Languages, St Andrews), ‘Poetry and Belief in 19th Century France’
9 – Andrew Marin (President of the Marin Foundation), ‘Spoken Word, Slam Poetry, and the Exploration of Sex, Identity and Faith’
16 – John Gillespie (School of Languages & Culture, University of Ulster), ‘Sartre and God: A Spiritual Journey?’
23 – Seminar cancelled
30 – Spring Holiday

April

13 – Andrew Tate (Department of English & Creative Writing, Lancaster University), ‘“The World of Accidents”: The Book of Job and Twenty-First Century Narrative’
20 – Stephen Wright (Spurgeon’s College), ‘Theological Hermeneutics and the Christian Year: Time, Narrative and Performance’

Martinmas Term 2011

September

30 – Robert Wilson (St Andrews): ‘Hopeless Desire: Dante and the Pagans’

October

7 – Lectura Dantis (Parliament Hall, St Andrews): http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/lectura/
14 – Arthur Bradley (Lancaster): ‘The New Atheist Novel’
21 – Sam Adams (ITIA): ‘Jacob Taubes and the Apocalyptic Cosmic Imaginary’
28 – Ben Quash (King’s College, London): ‘How Can Job Contemplate the Dead Christ? Some Reflections on Reception History in the Light of Vittore Carpaccio’s Paintings’

November

4 – Jim McCullough (ITIA): ‘Richness and Terror, Beauty and Banality: Spiritual Formation in Dialogue with the Art of Peter Howson and Makoto Fujimura’
11 – Reading Week
18 – Philip Archer (Principal, Leith School of Art): ‘Leith School of Art: A Vision for the Visual Arts’
25 – Steve Holmes (St Andrews): ‘The Necessity of Infinity: Visions of Heaven in Mark Twain’s Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven and Julian Barnes’s History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters’

December

2 – David Fuller (Durham): ‘Poetry in the Church’
9 – Jennifer Craft (ITIA): ‘Making a Place on Earth: A Theology of Place and Human Making in the Writing of Wendell Berry’
16 – Paul Martens (Baylor): ‘”Can the Knight of Faith be like an Inspector of Taxes?” The Black Prince as a Rendering of Fear and Trembling’

Candlemas Term 2011

February

18 – Christopher MacLachlan (St Andrews): ‘Tolkien, Death and Wagner’
25 – Bennett Zon (Durham): ‘“Spiritual” Selection: Joseph Goddard and the Music Theology of Evolution’

March

4 – Margaret Connolly (St Andrews): ‘The Nun, the Squire and the Great Letter: Visionary Devotion and Intercession in Fifteenth-Century Yorkshire’
11 – Lori Kanitz (ITIA): ‘Tsimtsum, Theodicean Spaces, and Annie Dillard’s Asyndetic Style’
18 – Paul Fiddes (Regent’s Park, Oxford): ‘Iris Murdoch, Jacques Derrida and The Black Prince’
25 – Duncan MacMillan (Edinburgh): ‘Redecorating John Knox’s Pulpit’

April

1 – Spring Vacation
8 – Spring Vacation
15 – Jake Andrews (St Andrews): ‘Violent Monotheists, Violent Corporations: Caprica’s Prophetic Vision’
22 – Good Friday
29 – Bank Holiday

May

6 – Roger Allen (St Peter’s, Oxford)

Martinmas Term 2010

October

8 – Wesley Vander Lugt (St Andrews, ITIA): ‘Ready Actors, Fitting Action: An Improvisational Vision for Theological Ethics’
15 – Richard Demarco (Edinburgh): ‘The Nature of the Christo-Judaic Heritage’
22 – Kelly Iverson (St Andrews, School of Divinity): ‘A Centurion’s Confession: A Performance-Critical Analysis of Mark 15:39’
29 – Sophie Oosterwijk (St Andrews): ‘Mortality and Morality: The Danse Macabre in Medieval Europe’

November

5 – Alison Jack (St Andrews): ‘Edwin Muir, “Scotland 1941” and the Scottish Reformation: The Debate Continues’
12 – Reading Week
19 – Stephen Prickett (Kent): ‘The Ache in the Missing Limb: Literature and Theology’
26 – Josie Price (St Andrews, ITIA): ‘Glory: A Nice Knockdown Argument’

December

3 – Paul Mealor (Aberdeen): ‘Mealor’s “Sabat Mater”: Hidden Numerology and Renaissance Techniques’
10 – Berys Gaut (St Andrews, School of Philosopy): ‘Creativity and Rationality’
17 – Bernard Beatty (Liverpool/ITIA): ‘Images and Explanations: Theology as Criticism’

Candlemas Term 2010

February

19 – David Brown (St Andrews, ITIA): ‘Water in Religious Art, Architecture and Film’
26 – Philip Esler (St Andrews, School of Divinity): ‘Pacino di Bonaguida’s ‘Tree of Life’: Interpreting the Bible in Paint in Early Fourteenth Century Italy’

March

5 – Grant Macaskill (St Andrews, School of Divinity): ‘”The Sound of Her Wings”: A Theological Conversation with Gaiman on Death’
12 CEPPA event on ‘Music, Morality and Meaning’, including lecture by James MacMillan CBE (11.30, Senate Rm, St Mary’s College).
19 – Jon Mackenzie (St Andrews, School of Divinity): ‘Sleeping Beauty?: On the Dormant Aesthetic at the Heart of Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics’
26 – Murdo Macdonald (Dundee):’The Celtic Dimension of Scottish Art with Particular Reference to Carmina Gaedelica’

April

2 – Spring Vacation
9 – Spring Vacation
16 – Tony Clark (Friends)
23 – John Munns (Emmanuel College, Cambridge): ‘The Evolution of the Crucifixion in Medieval Art and Thought’
30 – Aoife Monks (Birkbeck College): ‘Skulls, Armour, Ashes: Souvenirs and Relics at the Theatre’

May

7 – Ivan Khovacs (Canterbury Christ Church)
14 – Tim Stanley (Manchester): ‘Job: A Serious Man’
21 – Spike Bucklow (Hamilton Kerr): ‘From Lapis Lazuli to the Virgin’s robe: The Medium is the Message’
28 – Paul Martens (Baylor): ‘The Dialectical Shape of Metal and the Via Negativa’

Candlemas Term 2009

February

13 – Férdia Stone-Davis (Cambridge): ‘Boethius and Kant on Music: Beauty, Harmony and Nature’
20 – Alison Milbank (Nottingham): ‘Chesterton, Tolkien and Thomism’
26 – John Milbank (Nottingham): ‘The Bread of Forgiveness: Shame, Reconciliation and Betrothal’
27 – Grant Macaskill (St Andrews, ITIA): ‘”Do you want to know how I got my scars?”: The Origins of the Joker and Post 9-11 Reflections on Evil: A Theological Perspective’

March

6 – Michael Schmidt (Glasgow): ‘By Extension: The Bible in Poetic Practice’
13 – Christian George (St Andrews, ITIA): ‘Sacred Travels: Pilgrimage at the Intersection of Theology and the Arts’
20 – Peter Smaill: ‘Bach among the Heretics’
27 – Gwendolyn Starks (St Andrews, ITIA): ‘Becoming Dorothy: Translating the Character and Life of Dorothy L. Sayers to the Stage’

April

3 – Spring Vacation
10 – Spring Vacation
17 – Ian Bradley (St Andrews, ITIA): ‘I Have a Dream: The Message of Mamma Mia’
24 – John Dennison (St Andrews): ‘Adequate: Seamus Heaney and the Good of Poetry’

May

1 – Rupert Till (Huddersfield): ‘Pop Cults: Studying Popular Music Subcultures and Scenes as Forms of New Religious Movement’
8 – Graham Ward (Manchester): ‘Belief and Imagination’
15 – David Brown (St Andrews, ITIA): ‘”The Darkness and the Light Are Both Alike to Thee”: Subversion in Symbols’

Martinmas Term 2008

October

3 – Matt Farlow (St Andrews, ITIA): ‘Insertion of the Normative: The Dramatic Need of Today’
10 – Phil Shaw (Leicester): ‘Twixt Life and Death: Byron and the Sublime’
24 – James Jirtle (Durham): ‘Aesthetic Judgement and Human Freedom in Augustine and Kant’
31 – Allan F. Westphall (St Andrews): ‘Geographies of Orthodoxy’

November

7 – Linda Greenwood (St Andrews): ‘In Quest of King Arthur: The Refracted Medievalism of C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams’
14 – Reading Week
21 – David Grummet (Exeter): ‘Eating and Believing: The Theological Meanings of Food’
28 – Stephen Broad (RSAMD): ‘Messiaen and Art Sacré’

December

5 – Allan Doig (Oxford): ‘The Oxford Movement’
12 – Mark Johnson (St Andrews, ITIA): ‘Punk Theology’
19 – Michael Downes (Director of Music, St Andrews): ‘Spiritual Preoccupations in the Music of Jonathan Harvey’

Candlemas Term 2008

February

15 – Bernard Beatty (Liverpool): ‘Are Invitations to Faith and Narrative the Same? The Case of Shelley’s The Witch of Atlas’
22 – Grant Macaskill (St Andrews): ‘Dead Gods and Rebel Angels: The Polemics of Power in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials and Hal Duncan’s Book of All Hours’
29 – Dale Townshend (Stirling): ‘Gothic Mourning’

March

7 – Michael Ward (Cambridge): ‘Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis’
14 – Helen Barr (Oxford): ‘Religious Sensibilities in Chaucer’s Prioresse’s Tale’
28 – Andrew Rawnsley (Leuven):’Ideology and the Imaginary’

April

4 – Spring Vacation
11 – Spring Vacation
18 – Donovan McAbee (St Andrews): ‘Metaphysical Suspicions: Charles Simic as Agnostic Theologian’
25 – Paul Blair (St Andrews, ITIA): ‘Charles Williams and The Pattern of the Glory’

May

2 – Oliver Davies (King’s College London): ‘The Lordship of Christ: Freedom, Command and Sacrifice’
9 – John Milbank (Nottingham): ‘The World of the Imagination’
16 – Arthur Bradley (Lancaster):’The Deconstruction of Christianity: From the Hand of God to the Hand of Man’
23 – Jeremy Begbie (St Andrews, ITIA): ‘Sentimentality in Human life, Theology and the Arts’
30 – Hamid van Koten (Dundee): ‘The Role of the Imagination in Sufi Practices and Metaphysics’

Martinmas Term 2007

October

5 – Reno Lauro (St Andrews, ITIA): ‘Cinema, Simulacra and the Pornography of the Real’
12 – Hannah Holtschneider (Edinburgh): ‘Holocaust Representation in Museums: A Closer Look at the Use of Photographs’
19 – Claire Crowley (Springs Dance Company): Christianity and Dance
26 – Steve Holmes (St Andrews): ‘Is Geraldine a Demon in Disguise? Poetry, Prophecy and Platonism in the Theology of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’

November

2 – Judith Buchanan (York): Silent Biblical Films
9 – Nile Green (Manchester): ‘Islam, Visions and Dreaming’
16 – Reading Week
23 – Chris Jones (St Andrews): ‘Beowulf and the End of the World’
30 – Richard Davey (Nottingham Trent): ‘Searching for a Faithful Art’

December

7 – Andrew Hass (Stirling): ‘”O thou senseless form”: The Venturing of Nothing’
14 – Gavin Hopps and Tom Jones (St Andrews): ‘”A Creed Outworn”: Alexander Pope and the Refusal of Secular Space’

Candlemas Term 2007

February

9 – Does the devil really have all the best tunes?
16 – Bruce Longenecker (St Andrews): ‘Releasing the Captives and The Dismantling of Eucatastrophe: Filling the Narrative Gap of Luke 4:30’
23 – Mike Gray (Zürich): ‘Fantasy Fiction and Religious Identity’

March

2 – Gerard Loughlin (Durham): ‘Within the Image: Film as Icon’
9 – Bridget Heal (St Andrews): ‘Images of the Virgin Mary and Marian Devotion in Reformation Germany’
16 – Conor Cunningham (Nottingham): ‘Nihilism, Art, Theology and the Prodigal Son’
23 – David Torevell (Liverpool Hope): ‘Liturgy and the Beauty of the Unknown’
30 – Spring Vacation

April

6 – Spring Vacation
13 – Danny Gableman (St Andrews, ITIA): ‘Jesting in Earnest: Levity, Faith and the Counter-Enlightenment Aesthetics of George MacDonald’
20 – Emily Hearn (St Andrews, ITIA): ‘Seeing the Divine: A Christian Hindu Theology of Visual Art’
27 – John Butt (Glasgow): ‘Composers as Churchmen in the Modern Age: A Story of Harmony, Counterpoint and Dissonance’

May

4 – John Kitchen (Edinburgh): Issues in music and theology
11 – Natasha O’Hear (Oxford): ‘Images of Revelation’
29 – Peter van Inwagen (Notre Dame): ‘Was George Orwell a Metaphysical Realist?’

Martinmas Term 2006

September

29 – Introductory session

October

6 – C.S. Lewis, ‘Christianity and Culture’
13 – G.M. Hopkins, ‘Dylan Thomas and R.S. Thomas’
20 – Stephen Penn (Stirling): ‘John Wyclif: Sacramentality and Sacramentalism’
27 – David Jones, ‘Art and Sacrament’

November

3 – Meg Ramey (St Andrews, ITIA): ‘When Infancy Gospels and Popular American Fiction Meet: Considering Anne Rice’s Christ the Lord’
10 – Reading Week
17 – Gisela Kreglinger (St Andrews ITIA): ‘Poets, Dreamers and Mediators: Nocturnal Modes in MacDonald and Novalis’
24 – Kirstie Blair (Glasgow): ‘Form, Faith and Feeling in Victorian Poetry’

December

1 – Robert Crawford (St Andrews): ‘More Distant than the Stars and Nearer than the the Eye: Some Religious Poems’
8 – Gavin Hopps (St Andrews, ITIA) ‘Morrissey and the Light that Never Goes Out.’ Respondent: Mark Elliott (St Andrews)
15 – David Brown (Durham): ‘The Mystery in Words: Metaphor as a Way to God’

Candlemas Term 2006

February

10 – Trevor Hart (St Andrews, ITIA): ‘Creation and Copyright – Divine and Human Artistry’
17 – Discussion of Abraham Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism, Lecture 5 (‘Calvinism and Art’).
24 – Reno Lauro (St Andrews, ITIA): ‘Panning the Semantic Trace: Language, Imagination and Reality in the Works of Owen Barfield & J.R.R. Tolkien’

March

3 – Discussion of Nicholas Wolterstorff, ‘The Work of Making a Work of Music’ (P. Alperson (ed.), What is Music? An Introduction to the Philosophy of Music (University Park, Pennsylvania:
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1987, 103-129.)
10 – Paul Scaringi (St Andrews, ITIA): ‘Berdyaev & Seinfeld: It Really is About Nothing’
17 – Andy McCoy (St Andrews, ITIA): ‘Sweet Sorrow? – Tragedy, Redemption, and the Tears of Christ’
27 – 29: Spring Research Colloquium – ‘Patterns of Promise: Art, Imagination and Christian Hope’

May

12 – A Discussion of ‘Ibsen’s Treatment of Guilt’ by P. T. Forsyth.
19 – Carrie Jenkins (Executive Director, Arche AHRC Research Centre for the Philosophy of Logic, Language, Mathematics and Mind), ‘Imagination as a source of knowledge’.
26 – Philip Tallon (St Andrews, ITIA): ‘Theodicists and other Monsters: The Logic and Aesthetics of Horror’

June

2 – Grant Macaskill (St Andrews): Philip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’ Trilogy in the Light of Jewish Apocalyptic Literature

Martinmas Term 2005

October

7 – George MacDonald, ‘The Imagination: Its Functions and Its Culture’, and ‘The Fantastic Imagination’
14 – Love Life – An Engagement with Micheal O Siadhail’s Poetry
21 – J. R. R. Tolkien, ‘On Fairy Stories’ and ‘Mythopoeia’
28 – Andrew Rawnsley (St Andrews, ITIA): ‘Motifs of Incarnate Involvement in the later Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty’

November

4 – Dorothy Sayers, The Mind of the Maker (select extracts)
11 – Reading Week
18 – David Brown, God and Enchantment of Place, Chapter 1
25 – Patrick Sherry (Lancaster): ‘A Response to David Brown’

December

2 – Barth, Mozart, Music and God (extracts from Karl Barth’s essay on Mozart)
9 – David Robb (Dundee): ‘Perhaps He Will Need to Love Scotland Too: The Importance of MacDonald’s Scottish Sources’

Candlemas Term 2005

February

11 – Mark Elliot (St Andrews): ‘Three or Four Models for a Theological Approach to Literature’
18 – Nathan MacDonald (St Andrews): ‘Recasting the Golden Calf: The Richness of the Old Testament’s Understanding of Idolatry’
25 – Gary College: ‘Charles Dickens’ The Life of Our Lord Revisited’

March

4 – Marilee Newell (St Andrews): ‘Christ as Costume’
11 – Kirstin Johnson (St Andrews, ITIA): ‘George MacDonald & Curdie: A Storied Response to 19th century Readings of Isaiah’
18 – Murray Watts (filmmaker): ‘Scriptural Interpretation in Film’

April

1 – Spring Vacation
8 – Spring Vacation
15 – Attend the play ‘The Creation of the World and Other Business’ at the Byre
22 – Steve Guthrie (St Andrews, ITIA): ‘Temples of the Spirit: Worship as Embodied Performance’
29 – Ivan Khovacs (St Andrews, ITIA)

May

6 – Gisela Kreglinger (St Andrews, ITIA):’George MacDonald on the Parables’

Martinmas Term 2004

October

8 – Introductions
15 – Discussion of Reformed Theology and Visual Culture: The Protestant Imagination From Calvin to Edwards, by William Dyrness (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
22 – Book discussion ctd.
29 – Book discussion ctd.

November

5 – Book discussion ctd.
12 – Reading Week
19 – Trinitarian Theology Day (Suzanne MacDonald, Tee Gatewood)
26 – Trinitarian Theology Day (Steve Prokopchuk, Chelle Stearns, Cindy Burris)

December

3 – Tony Clark (St Andrews, ITIA): ‘Natural Scientific and Theological Method: Continuities and Discontinuities’
10 – David McNutt (St Andrews, ITIA): ‘A Finger, a Flute, and a Fisherman: Applying Karl Barth’s Doctrine of Revelation to the Arts’