Centre for Catholic Studies

Centre for Catholic Studies Podcast

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The Durham Centre for Catholic Studies is the first of its kind in British higher education. It represents a creative partnership between academy and church: a centre within the pluralist, public academy for critically constructive Catholic studies of the highest academic standing. The aims of the Centre for Catholic Studies are:-To provide a distinctive forum for the creative analysis of key issues in Catholic thought, culture, and practice.-To engage, inform and shape public and ecclesial life from a leading knowledge and research base.-To engage the breadth and depth of Catholic tradition i...

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Jun 26, 2026

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Patricia Waugh: Muriel Spark's Imagination 23.07.2019

Welcome, and thank you for listening to this presentation hosted by the Centre for Catholic Studies located at Durham University in Durham, United Kingdom. A centre for Catholic theology in the public academy. For more information, visit our website at www.centreforcatholicstudies.co.uk, or follow us on Twitter @CCSDham. The following lecture was presented in July 2019 at the Biennial Conference o...

Maria Apichella: Psalmody 23.07.2019

Welcome, and thank you for listening to this presentation hosted by the Centre for Catholic Studies located at Durham University in Durham, United Kingdom. A centre for Catholic theology in the public academy. For more information, visit our website at www.centreforcatholicstudies.co.uk, or follow us on Twitter @CCSDham. The following lecture was presented in July 2019 at the Biennial Conference o...

David Crystal: John Bradburne 23.07.2019

Welcome, and thank you for listening to this presentation hosted by the Centre for Catholic Studies located at Durham University in Durham, United Kingdom. A centre for Catholic theology in the public academy. For more information, visit our website at www.centreforcatholicstudies.co.uk, or follow us on Twitter @CCSDham. The following lecture was presented in July 2019 at the Biennial Conference o...

June Dickie: Psalms ‘translated’, a South African Perspective 23.07.2019

The following lecture was presented in June 2019 at the New Song Conference: Biblical Hebrew Poetry as Jewish and Christian Scripture for the 21st Century. The conference was organized in partnership by the Centre for Catholic Studies, the Durham University Centre for the Study of Jewish Culture, Society, and Politics and Ushaw College. The lecture was given by Dr June Francis Dickie, postdoctoral...

Ellen Davis: Bending the Silence 23.07.2019

The following lecture was presented in June 2019 at the New Song Conference: Biblical Hebrew Poetry as Jewish and Christian Scripture for the 21st Century. The conference was organized in partnership by the Centre for Catholic Studies, the Durham University Centre for the Study of Jewish Culture, Society, and Politics and Ushaw College. The lecture was given by Professor Ellen Davis, the Amos Raga...

David Firth: Hannah's Song (1 Samuel 2.1-10) 23.07.2019

David Firth: Hannah's Song (1 Samuel 2.1-10) by Centre for Catholic Studies

John Goldingay: On Genesis 49 23.07.2019

The following lecture was presented in June 2019 at the New Song Conference: Biblical Hebrew Poetry as Jewish and Christian Scripture for the 21st Century. The conference was organized in partnership by the Centre for Catholic Studies, the Durham University Centre for the Study of Jewish Culture, Society, and Politics and Ushaw College. The lecture was given by Professor John Goldingay, Professor...

Katie Heffelfinger: Truth and Hidden Things 23.07.2019

The following lecture was presented in June 2019 at the New Song Conference: Biblical Hebrew Poetry as Jewish and Christian Scripture for the 21st Century. The conference was organized in partnership by the Centre for Catholic Studies, the Durham University Centre for the Study of Jewish Culture, Society, and Politics and Ushaw College. The lecture was given by Dr Katie M. Heffelfinger, Lecturer i...

Benjamin Sommer: Parallelism and Preaching 23.07.2019

The following lecture was presented in June 2019 at the New Song Conference: Biblical Hebrew Poetry as Jewish and Christian Scripture for the 21st Century. The conference was organized in partnership by the Centre for Catholic Studies, the Durham University Centre for the Study of Jewish Culture, Society, and Politics and Ushaw College. The lecture was given by Professor Benjamin D. Sommer, Profes...

Yisca Zimran: Hosea: A Synchronic Reading 23.07.2019

The following lecture was presented in June 2019 at the New Song Conference: Biblical Hebrew Poetry as Jewish and Christian Scripture for the 21st Century. The conference was organized in partnership by the Centre for Catholic Studies, the Durham University Centre for the Study of Jewish Culture, Society, and Politics and Ushaw College. The lecture was given by Dr Yisca Zimran, lecturer in the Zal...

Clare Carlisle Tresch: Being-in-God: Spinoza and Panentheism 08.07.2019

Being-in-God: Spinoza, Panentheism, and Catholic Theology Seminar by Dr Clare Carlisle Tresch (King's College London)

Alison Shell: Staging Magic in Catholic Drama 12.06.2019

Staging Magic in English Catholic College Drama Ushaw Lecture by Professor Alison Shell (University College London) --About the Lecture Dramatised magic was popular in early modern theatre, and never more so than within the dramatic corpus of the English Catholic colleges set up in continental Europe after the Reformation. Many of these colleges were controlled by the Jesuit order, who played a ma...

John McGreevy: Jacques Maritain and Democracy 13.05.2019

Jacques Maritain, Democratic Crisis, and the Promise and Peril of a Global Catholic History Ushaw Lecture by Professor John McGreevy (University of Notre Dame) --About the Lecture Jacques Maritain is often described as the most important Catholic intellectual of the mid-20th century. This lecture describes his most important project - offering arguments from within Catholicism for democracy, even...

Vincent Lloyd: Black Dignity 13.05.2019

Black Dignity by Dr Vincent Lloyd (Villanova University, Pennsylvania) The idea of dignity is a common denominator of the abolitionist movement, the US civil rights movement, the black power movement, black feminist movements, and #BlackLivesMatter. To what extent is there a specifically Black understanding of dignity? How does it resonate with Catholic and secular liberal accounts of dignity, and...

Daniel Mulhall: James Joyce and Irish Catholicism 24.04.2019

HE Daniel Mulhall (Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain) James Joyce and Irish Catholicism

Melanie McDonagh: Catholicism and Journalism 24.04.2019

Dr Melanie McDonagh (London Evening Standard) Catholicism and Journalism

Anna Lawson: The Work of Fenwick Lawson 24.04.2019

Anna Lawson (Durham) Shaping the Catholic Imaginary: The Work of Fenwick Lawson

Eamon Duffy: English Reformation in Fiction/Faction 24.04.2019

Prof. Eamon Duffy (Magdalene College, Cambridge) Wars of Religion: The English Reformation in Fiction and Faction

Paul Anthony Murray: Catholic Ireland / Catholic Writing 24.04.2019

Paul Anthony Murray (Dublin) Catholic Ireland / Catholic Writing

Paul Lakeland: The Grace of Creative Writing 24.04.2019

Prof. Paul Lakeland (Fairfield University) Faith, Imagination and ‘The Space Between’: The Grace of Creative Writing

Ethna Regan and Timothy Radcliffe: Putting Our Own House in Order 24.04.2019

Putting Our Own House in Order: The Challenges Within Prof. Gerard Loughlin (Durham University): Chair Sr Dr Ethna Regan (Dublin City University): Speaker Fr Timothy Radcliffe, OP (Las Casas Institute, Blackfriars, Oxford): Speaker

Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator and Anna Rowlands: Preferential Option 24.04.2019

The Preferential Option Today Dr Mark Hayes (Durham University): Chair Dr Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator SJ (Hekima University College, Nairobi): An African Perspective on Globalisation, Poverty, and the Call to Serve the Common Good Dr Anna Rowlands (Durham University): For I Was a Stranger: Globalisation, Migrancy, Asylum, and Catholicism

Alana Harris and Tina Beattie: The Signs of the Times 24.04.2019

Discerning the Catholic Moment: Reading the Signs of the Times Prof. Janet Soskice (University of Cambridge): Chair Dr Alana Harris (Kings College London): A Social-Scientific Reading of the Contemporary Catholic Cultural Moment Prof. Tina Beattie (University of Roehampton): Theological Reading of the Contemporary Catholic Cultural Moment: Family Matters

Clare Watkins: Authentic Catholic Living 24.04.2019

Dr Clare Watkins (University of Roehampton) Discerning Church: Forming the Church for Authentic Catholic Living in Late Modern Britain

Jonathan Bush: Nicholas Wiseman and Ushaw 24.04.2019

Dr Jonathan Bush (Durham University) Nicholas Wiseman and Ushaw Part of a session on the Catholic Revival

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