Previous Lectures
Lectures in Radical Christian Faith, and Dialogues in Faith
This is a list of previous lecturers and lecture titles from 2000 on, giving an impression of the range of topics covered. (We regret that CD's and tapes from previous series are no longer available.)
Full details of the latest series can be seen on the Radical Faith Lectures page.
| 2009 The tenth series: | Worshipping with Integrity in a Radical Context |
| Revd Dr Susan Durber | 'Worship - what’s it for?' |
| Revd Dr John Campbell | 'Working with the Word in radical worship' |
| Revd Prof June Boyce-Tillman | 'In tune with heaven or not?' |
| Revd Jim Cotter | 'The nature of prayer and the character of God' |
| Co-ordinator: Dr Nicola Slee | An evening of radical and inclusive worship implementing some of the themes from the previous lectures |
| 2008 The ninth series: | Theologies of the Excluded |
| Professor Daphne Hampson | 'Exclusion on account of gender' |
| Dr Mukti Barton | 'Theology of those excluded because of their colour' |
| Professor Lisa Isherwood | 'Theology of those excluded by their sexuality' |
| The Revd Kathy Galloway | 'Redundant to the economy - redundant to the church?' |
| 2007 The eighth series: | Dialogues in Faith |
| Karen Armstrong | 'The Great Transformation' |
| Rabbi Zvi Solomons | 'Jewish Perceptions of God' |
| Professor Tariq Ramadan | 'Living as a Muslim in Twenty-first Century Britain' |
| Rabbi Barbara Borts | 'Living as a Jew in Twenty-first Century Britain' |
| Prof. Yayha Michot | 'Muslim Perceptions of God' |
| 2006 The seventh series: | Radical Christian Faith |
| The Revd Professor John Hick | 'Believable Christianity' |
| The Revd Dr John Polkinghorne | 'The Cost of Creation' |
| Dr Nicola Slee | 'The Mansion of Mary' |
| The Revd Dr John Bell | 'Things Seldom Said of Jesus' |
| 2005 The sixth series: | Radical Christian Faith |
| The Rt Hon Clare Short MP | 'Must God divide our broken, bitter world?' |
| The Revd Alan Race | 'Out of the frying pan of mission into the fire of dialogue' |
| The Revd Inderjit Bhogal | 'Borders, Bread and Bigotry' |
| Professor John M Hull | 'Hymns and Prejudice: the story of a relationship' |
| 2004 The fifth series: | Radical Christian Faith |
| Dr Tina Beattie | 'Christianity and Women's Rights - Secular Heresy or Coming of Age?' |
| Dr Andrew Bradstock | 'Ranters, rebels and revolutionaries: radical voices past and present' |
| The Rt Revd Peter Selby | 'Grace and Mortgage - further indebtedness, further reflections' |
| Professor Graham Ward | 'Religion and the End of Democracy' |
| 2003 The fourth series: | Radical Christian Faith |
| The Revd Prof. Michael Taylor | 'The Gospel - a Broken Promise?' |
| The Revd Prof. Paul Badham | 'A Christianity that could be believed in' |
| Professor Mary Grey | 'From Idol to Ideal: on not selling out to Globalisation' |
| The Revd Prof. Keith Ward | 'What the Bible really teaches - some shocking facts for fundamentalists' |
| 2002 The third series: | Radical Christian Faith |
| The Revd Martin Camroux | 'Can Liberal Theology Survive? - Secularization and the Religious Future' |
| The Revd Anthony Freeman | 'Lord, Open the Church of England's Eyes: Seeing beyond the ecumenical impasse' |
| Professor Grace Jantzen | 'Beauty and the Bantam Cock: A Reconfiguration of Sanctity' |
| Professor Markus Vinzent | 'Why do Gods persist?' |
| 2001 The second series: | Radical Christian Faith |
| Dr Robert Beckford | 'Doing Theology in the Age of Crack: Fake Prosperity and a Theology of Dub' |
| Dr Tina Beattie | 'The Mad Bad Kingdom of God - Why can't Christianity get real?' |
| Professor Werner Ustorf | 'The World's Disorder and Christian Map-Making' |
| Bishop Richard Holloway | 'The Wound of Religion' |
| 2000 The first series: | Radical Christian Faith |
| Revd Dr Jane Shaw | 'Will women ever achieve their full potential within Christianity?' |
| Bishop John Spong | 'Why Christianity Must Change or Die.' |
| Revd Professor John Hick | 'Is Christianity the only True Religion?' |
| Professor John M Hull | 'Has the Theology outlived the Empire?' |
