The Samuel Ferguson Lecture with Prof. Niels Henrik Gregersen (Copenhagen University) - Lecture
| Dates: | 7 March 2024 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 17:30 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| How much: | Free |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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| Speaker: | Professor Niels Henrik Gregersen |
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The Samuel Ferguson Lecture—Thursday 7 March 2024
We are pleased to announce that the 2024 Samuel Ferguson lecturer is Prof. Niels Henrik Gregersen (Copenhagen University).
The focus of Professor Gregersen’s research is constructive Christian theology in the context of secularized and multi-religious Western societies, including public theology; and the field of science & religion, especially the philosophy of evolutionary biology and the sciences of complexity.
This year’s Ferguson Lecture is again hosted jointly between the Department of Religions and Theology and Manchester Cathedral. Prof. Gregersen will make a presentation at Manchester Cathedral at 12pm and give a lecture at 4 PM at the University of Manchester.
Ferguson lecture: ‘What does it mean to have a home? From deep incarnation to deep inhabitation’, Thursday 7 March, 4-5.30 PM, conference room C1.18 in the Ellen Wilkinson building (no. 77 on the campus map) at the University of Manchester, followed by a reception.
Diverse fields such as phenomenology, anthropology, and ecology have increasingly emphasized the importance of finding and making home(s) in a chaotic world. In this Ferguson Lecture, Gregersen expands the theological view of “deep incarnation” into the idea of a “deep inhabitation”. Deep incarnation argues that the Word or Wisdom of God not only became human but conjoined with the Earth in its full extension. Correspondingly, deep inhabitation finds the dwelling places of the ubiquitous God in the always limited and often broken habitations of life. The view of deep inhabitation argues that we are not thrown into a foreign world but homed by a world of creation that welcomes its inhabitants, human as well as more-than-human life-forms. So, how do we inhabit the world in ways that are both hospitable and constructive?
Free to attend and tickets are not required.
Speaker
Professor Niels Henrik Gregersen
Travel and Contact Information
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C1.18
Ellen Wilkinson Building
Manchester
