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Professor Sara Coekley (University of Cambridge) - on Gregory of Nyssa.
Professor Sara Coekley (University of Cambridge)
XIII International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa
Rome, 17-20 September 2014
"Gregory of Nyssa on Spiritual Ascent and Trinitarian Orthodoxy: A Reconsideration of the Relation between Doctrine and Askesis" The Pontifical University of the Holy Cross
Gregory of Nyssa, also known as Gregory Nyssen (Greek: Γρηγόριος Νύσσης; c. 335 – c. 395), was bishop of Nyssa from 372 to 376 and from 378 until his death. He is venerated as a saint in Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Lutheranism, and Anglicanism. Gregory, his brother Basil of Caesarea, and Gregory of Nazianzus are collectively known as the Cappadocian Fathers.
Gregory lacked the administrative ability of his brother Basil or the contemporary influence of Gregory of Nazianzus, but he was an erudite theologian who made significant contributions to the doctrine of the Trinity and the Nicene creed. Gregory's philosophical writings were influenced by Origen. Since the mid-twentieth century, there has been a significant increase in interest in Gregory's works from the academic community, particularly involving universal salvation, which has resulted in challenges to many traditional interpretations of his theology.
Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity
Fellow, Murray Edwards College
Email: norris-hulse@divinity.cam.ac.uk
Office Phone: 01223 763002
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Biography:
As Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity, Sarah Coakley holds the established chair at Cambridge in philosophy of religion. She has previously held positions at the Universities of Lancaster, Oxford, and Harvard, and a visiting professorship at Princeton. She has been awarded honorary degrees by the University of Lund, the University of St Andrew's and General Theological Seminary, New York. In 2012 she delivered the Gifford Lectures in Aberdeen on the topic ‘Sacrifice Regained: Evolution, Cooperation and God’. In 2012 she was also elected a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and in 2013 the President of the British Society for Philosophy of Religion.
From January 2011 until September 2014 Professor Coakley served as Deputy Chair of Arts and Humanities in the University.
From October 2014 Professor Coakley has a three-year Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Foundation which she will use to complete various research and publication projects. In the same period she will continue to act as PI in herTempleton World Charity Foundation grant on 'Theology, Philosophy of Religion, and the Natural Sciences'. During this time Professor Coakley’s undergraduate and MPhil teaching is being covered by Dr Jacob Sherman.
Professor Coakley has also over the last five years chaired annual symposia funded by the McDonald Agape Foundation on major topics in theological ethics, with the papers published in Studies in Christian Ethics: 'The Future of Theological Ethics', 25/2 (2012); 'Evolution, Cooperation and Ethics', 26/2 (2013); 'The Ethics of State Punishment', 27/3 (2014). Previous interdisciplinary research projects have included ‘Evolution and the Theology of Cooperation’ (with Martin A. Nowak, funded by The John Templeton Foundation) and ‘Pain and its Transformations’ (with Arthur Kleinman, funded by the Harvard Mind / Brain / Behavior Interfaculty Initiative).
Professor Coakley contributed to Analytic Theology (eds. Oliver Crisp and Michael Rea, OUP, 2009), and with her doctoral and postdoctoral students has continued to participate in international colloquia related to it. In 2009 she also instituted an annual day conference in philosophy of religion bringing together graduate students from Cambridge, Oxford, Nottingham and London. Students of philosophy of religion at Cambridge are encouraged to interact with members of the Philosophy Faculty and other cognate Faculties, and enjoy connections with several European and North American universities with which there are exchange arrangements.
Subject area and speciality
Christian Theology specialists:
The future of 'systematic theology'
The patristic, scholastic, and contemporary doctrine of the Trinity
Pneumatology and the filioque problem
Chalcedonian and post-Chalcedonian christology and the problem of the communicatio idiomatum
Philosophy of Religion specialists:
The origins and relations of analytic and continental philosophy of religion
'Analytic theology'
The contemporary status of arguments for God's existence
The 'hiddenness' of God and 'apophatic' claims about God
The epistemology of 'religious experience'
College
Murray Edwards College:
Research Interests
religious epistemology, especially in the patristic tradition of the ‘spiritual senses’
rationality, the passions and religious truth claims
gender theory and philosophy of religion
the relation of apophatic and cataphatic claims in philosophical theology
the future of ‘natural theology’: revisiting teleological and design arguments
evolutionary theory, game theory and Christian philosophical theology
systematic theology and its relation to philosophy of religion
Research Supervision
During the period of her Leverhulme Research Fellowship Professor Coakley’s intake of new doctoral students will necessarily be limited. Nonetheless she continues to welcome general enquiries about the study of Philosophy of Religion and Theological Ethics at graduate level in the faculty, especially for projects bridging the divide between philosophy and theology. She herself works in both the analytic and continental strands of philosophy of religion, and this inclusiveness is characteristic of the teaching of Philosophy of Religion at Cambridge.
www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/directory/sarah-coakley
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Professor Sara Coekley (University of Cambridge)
XIII International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa
Rome, 17-20 September 2014
"Gregory of Nyssa on Spiritual Ascent and Trinitarian Orthodoxy: A Reconsideration of the Relation between Doctrine and Askesis" The Pontifical University of the Holy Cross
Gregory of Nyssa, also known as Gregory Nyssen (Greek: Γρηγόριος Νύσσης; c. 335 – c. 395), was bishop of Nyssa from 372 to 376 and from 378 until his death. He is venerated as a saint in Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Lutheranism, and Anglicanism. Gregory, his brother Basil of Caesarea, and Gregory of Nazianzus are collectively known as the Cappadocian Fathers.
Gregory lacked the administrative ability of his brother Basil or the contemporary influence of Gregory of Nazianzus, but he was an erudite theologian who made significant contributions to the doctrine of the Trinity and the Nicene creed. Gregory's philosophical writings were influenced by Origen. Since the mid-twentieth century, there has been a significant increase in interest in Gregory's works from the academic community, particularly involving universal salvation, which has resulted in challenges to many traditional interpretations of his theology.
Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity
Fellow, Murray Edwards College
Email: norris-hulse@divinity.cam.ac.uk
Office Phone: 01223 763002
Download as vCard
Biography:
As Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity, Sarah Coakley holds the established chair at Cambridge in philosophy of religion. She has previously held positions at the Universities of Lancaster, Oxford, and Harvard, and a visiting professorship at Princeton. She has been awarded honorary degrees by the University of Lund, the University of St Andrew's and General Theological Seminary, New York. In 2012 she delivered the Gifford Lectures in Aberdeen on the topic ‘Sacrifice Regained: Evolution, Cooperation and God’. In 2012 she was also elected a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and in 2013 the President of the British Society for Philosophy of Religion.
From January 2011 until September 2014 Professor Coakley served as Deputy Chair of Arts and Humanities in the University.
From October 2014 Professor Coakley has a three-year Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Foundation which she will use to complete various research and publication projects. In the same period she will continue to act as PI in herTempleton World Charity Foundation grant on 'Theology, Philosophy of Religion, and the Natural Sciences'. During this time Professor Coakley’s undergraduate and MPhil teaching is being covered by Dr Jacob Sherman.
Professor Coakley has also over the last five years chaired annual symposia funded by the McDonald Agape Foundation on major topics in theological ethics, with the papers published in Studies in Christian Ethics: 'The Future of Theological Ethics', 25/2 (2012); 'Evolution, Cooperation and Ethics', 26/2 (2013); 'The Ethics of State Punishment', 27/3 (2014). Previous interdisciplinary research projects have included ‘Evolution and the Theology of Cooperation’ (with Martin A. Nowak, funded by The John Templeton Foundation) and ‘Pain and its Transformations’ (with Arthur Kleinman, funded by the Harvard Mind / Brain / Behavior Interfaculty Initiative).
Professor Coakley contributed to Analytic Theology (eds. Oliver Crisp and Michael Rea, OUP, 2009), and with her doctoral and postdoctoral students has continued to participate in international colloquia related to it. In 2009 she also instituted an annual day conference in philosophy of religion bringing together graduate students from Cambridge, Oxford, Nottingham and London. Students of philosophy of religion at Cambridge are encouraged to interact with members of the Philosophy Faculty and other cognate Faculties, and enjoy connections with several European and North American universities with which there are exchange arrangements.
Subject area and speciality
Christian Theology specialists:
The future of 'systematic theology'
The patristic, scholastic, and contemporary doctrine of the Trinity
Pneumatology and the filioque problem
Chalcedonian and post-Chalcedonian christology and the problem of the communicatio idiomatum
Philosophy of Religion specialists:
The origins and relations of analytic and continental philosophy of religion
'Analytic theology'
The contemporary status of arguments for God's existence
The 'hiddenness' of God and 'apophatic' claims about God
The epistemology of 'religious experience'
College
Murray Edwards College:
Research Interests
religious epistemology, especially in the patristic tradition of the ‘spiritual senses’
rationality, the passions and religious truth claims
gender theory and philosophy of religion
the relation of apophatic and cataphatic claims in philosophical theology
the future of ‘natural theology’: revisiting teleological and design arguments
evolutionary theory, game theory and Christian philosophical theology
systematic theology and its relation to philosophy of religion
Research Supervision
During the period of her Leverhulme Research Fellowship Professor Coakley’s intake of new doctoral students will necessarily be limited. Nonetheless she continues to welcome general enquiries about the study of Philosophy of Religion and Theological Ethics at graduate level in the faculty, especially for projects bridging the divide between philosophy and theology. She herself works in both the analytic and continental strands of philosophy of religion, and this inclusiveness is characteristic of the teaching of Philosophy of Religion at Cambridge.
www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/directory/sarah-coakley
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www.pusc.it