We had a full and thought-provoking weekend at the New Trinitarian Ontologies Conference in Cambridge last week. The talks are all available on YouTube, and some are excellent.
My paper is available to read on academia.edu and to watch on YouTube.
September travel
I’ll be speaking at DITA10 (Duke) on 6 September, at Baylor University on 11 September, and at New Trinitarian Ontologies (Cambridge) on 13 September.
Please come if you’re in any of those places!
New Directions in Philosophical Theology
I have received a £174,000 ($230,000) grant from the Templeton Religion Trust to lead a two-year research project entitled ‘New Directions in Philosophical Theology’.
The aim of the project is to lay the groundwork for a field-shaping programme of research in philosophical theology, defined as a theology resourced by methods and insights from within systematic theology and continental philosophy. It plans to do so (a) by building relationships with theological centres and outstanding individual researchers that already engage continental philosophy constructively for theological advancement, and (b) by formulating a shared understanding of the tasks and questions that should be prioritized over the subsequent c. five years in the field of philosophical theology.
The project will be based here at St Andrews, and draw on the School of Divinity’s rich expertise in systematic theology and continental philosophy, as well as its flourishing work in the neighbouring field of analytic theology.
If you are with an institution that works in the area outlined above, and would like to be involved, please get in touch with me.
The University of St Andrews is now hiring a two-year research fellow to work with this project. Please consider or pass on the advertisement to potential candidates.
Reading R.M. Rilke & T.S. Eliot Theologically and Philosophically
In March 2019, Thomas Pfau (Duke) and I convened a four-day colloquium gathering a small group of theologians, philosophers, literary scholars and poets to read R.M. Rilke’s Duino Elegies and T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets together and discuss their theological and philosophical dimensions.
Left to right: Kevin Hart (Virginia), David Wellbery (Chicago), Malcolm Guite (Cambridge), Judith Wolfe (St Andrews), Rowan Williams (Cambridge), Thomas Pfau (Duke). Not pictured: Christoph Schwöbel (St Andrews), Gavin Hopps (St Andrews)
Themed Issue of Modern Theology: Philosophy & Theology in Germany, 1918-1933
Just out…
A number of new articles and talks have recently been published online:
‘The Eschatological Turn in German Philosophy’, Modern Theology 35, no 1 (January 2019), https://doi.org/10.1111/moth.12460
‘The Philosophy of Hope’, panel discussion with Melvyn Bragg (host), Beatrice Han-Pile, and Robert Stern, on In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00017vl
‘Religious Aspects of Heidegger’s Black Notebooks’, podcast of a lecture given in Lund, Sweden, as part of a colloquium entitled Heidegger and Theology – After the Black Notebooks, https://religionochteologi.podbean.com/e/judith-wolfe-religious-aspects-of-the-black-notebooks/
‘Martin Heidegger and Catholicism: The Unexpected Enemy in the Black Notebooks’, a brief piece for The Tablet, now re-posted on The Roundel, the blog of Systematic & Historical Theology at St Andrews.
The author-accepted manuscript of another article, entitled ‘The End of Images: Towards a Phenomenology of Eschatological Expectation’, to be published in 2019 in a book entitled Image as Theology, will be available shortly in the University of St Andrews’ research repository, PURE.
In Our Time: Hope
I am speaking on Melvyn Bragg’s BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time on the Philosophy of Hope, together with Beatrice Han-Pile and Robert Stern.
Listen at the BBC Radio 4 page.
Hope (G.F. Watts, 1886, Tate Britain)
Oxford History of Modern German Theology
My colleagues Johannes Zachhuber (Oxford), David Lincicum (Notre Dame) and I have just signed a contract with Oxford University Press for a 3-volume, edited Oxford History of Modern German Theology to be published around 2022.
More information is available at the project website.
Symposium: Religion & Philosophy in Germany, 1918 – 1933
Prof. Thomas Pfau (Duke University) and I are convening a small symposium on Religion & Philosophy in Germany, 1918-1933, at Duke University in November. Please see the symposium website for more information. Spaces are very limited, but if you are interested, please email me.
Oxford Handbook of 19th-Century Christian Thought
OUP has just announced the Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Christian Thought, to be published in June 2017, on which Joel Rasmussen, Johannes Zachhuber and I have been working for the last four years. Visit the catalogue or see the Table of Contents below.