News & Announcements

October 17, 2018

Surprised by Meaning: Science, Faith, and How We Make Sense of Things

While a considerably expanded version of Alister E. McGrath's 2009 Aberdeen Gifford Lectures lectures was published in that same year as A Fine Tuned Universe: The Quest for God in Science and Theology, readers might be interested to know that a more accessible version of these lectures, supplemented with material setting them in a deeper context, was published in 2011 as Surprised by Meaning: Science, Faith, and How We make Sense of Things.

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October 10, 2018

Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism

In Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism, Tanner is both critiquing and building on Max Weber’s classic thesis from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905). Weber argued that Protestant Christianity, especially double predestinarian Calvinism, supplied a virtue-based work ethic that capitalism co-opted for its own production-driven ends. Tanner does not dispute that the capitalism of Weber’s day very well might have gained impetus from strands of Calvinist Christianity.

October 10, 2018

The Penumbra of Ethics: The Gifford Lectures of V.A. Demant with Critical Commentary and Assessment

VTS Announces Publication of THE PENUMBRA OF ETHICS: THE GIFFORD LECTURES OF V.A. DEMANT WITH CRITICAL COMMENTARY AND ASSESSMENT 

August 28, 2018

The University of Edinburgh Gifford Lectures Blog

For post-lecture, live discussion of the Edinburgh Gifford Lectures series, see the Gifford Lectures Blog.

August 28, 2018

The School of Divinity, University of St Andrews Appoints Gifford Fellow

The School of Divinity, University of St Andrews is pleased to announce the appointment of Euan Grant to the post-doctoral Gifford Fellowship.

August 13, 2018

Michael Polanyi's Gifford Lectures

Many thanks to Phil Mullins, at Missouri Western State University for pointing us in the direction of the Polanyi Society. If interested in the Gifford Lectures given by Michael Polanyi at the University of Aberdeen in 1951–52 as well as an introduction and syllabus, they are available at Polanyi Society Gifford Lecture's!

February 14, 2018

Biography Posted for Judith Butler

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her PhD in Philosophy from Yale University in 1984. Butler served as founding director of the Critical Theory Program at UC Berkeley, served as department chair of the Department of Rhetoric in 1998–2003 and 2006–7, and the acting chair of the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, 2002–3.

January 30, 2018

Judith Butler on Inequality and the Philosophy of Non-Violence (title tbc)

Monday, October 1, 2018 - 17:30 to Thursday, October 4, 2018 - 19:30
December 14, 2017

University of Aberdeen Announces 2018 Gifford Lectures

Monday, February 12, 2018 - 18:00 to Wednesday, March 7, 2018 - 18:00

The question of 'natural theology' interlocks with the related questions of whether we can conceive of God acting in the world at all, as well as why, if God is God, evil persists in the world. Can specific events in history, like those reported in the Gospels, afford the necessary point from which to ask and answer such questions?

December 14, 2017

University of Edinburgh Announces 2018 Gifford Lectures

Tuesday, May 29, 2018 -
17:30 to 18:30
Meadows Lecture Theatre, William Robertson Wing (Doorway 4), Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG

Professor Elaine Howard Ecklund will present this year’s Gifford Lecture, on Tuesday 29 May 2018, 5.30-6.30pm, at the Meadows Lecture Theatre, William Robertson Wing (Doorway 4), Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG. Professor Ecklund is the Herbert S Autrey Chair in Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology at Rice University. Ecklund’s research uses social scientific methods to explore the public relationship between science and religion.

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