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Prof. Thomas O’Loughlin discusses with Dr Sara Parks the origins of the Christian notion of a ‘gospel’ and how it moved from being a political notion in the Roman Empire, to being a…
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Professor Frances Knight introduces the two distance learning MA programmes run by the department: the MA in Church History; and the MA in Systematic and Philosophical Theology. All details in this…
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What makes a good liturgy? Many approaches are taken to this question – and it is a question everyone asks, at least implicitly, after every act of participation. In this video Professor Thomas…
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Kevin McGinnell and Tom O’Loughlin discuss the challenge of creating an incarnational liturgy fifty years after the close of the Second Vatican Council.
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Kevin McGinnell and Tom O’Loughlin discuss the complexity of how liturgy is perceived / received / celebrated in contemporary multi-ethnic urban Britain. An underlying assumption of most…
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One of the major developments in Christianity in recent years has been the growth of ecumenical approaches to liturgy. Here one of the leaders of those conversations in the English-speaking world,…
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Martin Luther (1483-1546) is the most famous of the sixteenth-century reformers who began his attach on the practices of the Catholic Church five centuries ago in 1517. Here Dr Simeon Zahl looks at…
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There are many definitions of theology and in this video Dr Simeon Zahl shared his view of what he does as a theologian and why he thinks it important. He sees himself as engaging in a formal manner…
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Tables are a part of everyday life, but they also have
significance in many religious rituals which are connected with food / eating. Here Prof. Tom O’Loughlin looks at a range of
meanings…
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The Eucharist is a central ritual of Christians, and a
central to that ritual is the use of a cup of wine for which thanks have been
offered to God. But what is often forgotten is that in this…
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Footwashing has been part of the ritual inheritance of Christians since at least the time John composed his gospel, but it has also been a much misunderstood and avoided ritual. Here Thomas…
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Dr Frances Knight explores some of the religious dimensions
of the life and works of Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) and in particular his Ballad of Reading Goal and De Profundis. She also examines…
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Edward Gibbon (1737-94) published his most famous work, The
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in 1776. Famous or notorious in
presenting the rise of Christianity as the cause of the decline of…
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Professor Jeremy Gregory examines the case that the history
of religion is as close as we can get to ‘total history’: looking at all
aspects of individuals in societies in the past in the…
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All religions use time as a central element
in the way they celebrate. They have a sacred year – a sequence of festivals
arranged in an annual cycle. Most also have a sacred month or a sacred…
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Dr Francisca Rumsey looks at the importance of liturgy in
Christianity. She takes her starting point on its importance the fact that
human beings are ritual animals. We constantly communicate with…
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Dr Francisca Rumsey discusses the book know as the ‘maryrology’ with Prof. Tom O’Loughlin You can find other videos in the Sacred Calendars series here;…
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Dr Francisca Rumsey reflects in the significance of the
Second Vatican Council (1963-5) in conversation with Prof. Tom O’Loughlin
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Prof. Tom O’Loughlin examines what is meant by
the word ‘word’ and its complex uses in Christian theology Other videos in the A-Z of Theology series can be found here;…
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Prof. Tom O’Loughlin examines what is meant by the word ‘myth’
when used by theologians and he argues that myths are sets of symbols that are
transparent for transfinite…
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Prof. Tom O’Loughlin examines what is meant by the word
‘codex’ and how this was the characteristic book-form in early Christianity.Other entries in the A-Z of Theology playlist can…
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Professor Tom O'Loughlin and Rabbi Mendy Lent discuss the Jewish festival of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement when Jews traditionally observe this holy day with a 25-hour period of fasting and…
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All religions use time as a central element
in the way they celebrate. They have a sacred year – a sequence of festivals
arranged in an annual cycle. Here Rabbi Mendy Lent introduces one of the…
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Every religion has –
whether they are proud of it or not – special things and places. Most human
beings – whether they are proud of it or not – have objects of special…
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Anyone who has heard of the Marriage Feast at Cana (Gospel of John 2:1-11) has heard of ‘the six stone jars, for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty…
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Prof. Roland Deines explores the ways that the study of
ancient Galilee, around the time of Jesus, can throw light on the historical
Jesus and the origins of his movement as we hear of it in the…
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Professor Judith Mossman (Dept of Classics, University of
Nottingham), and expert on Greek tragedy, introduces one of the most powerful
of the plays of Euripides: The Bacchae. This gives us…
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Plutarch (A.D. 46 – after 120), from Chaeronea in Boeotia, was one of the most prolific Greek writers of antiquity and his work is exactly contemporaneous with the period of the earliest…
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Mr Neil Smyth (the Senior Librarian for the Faculty of Arts)
discusses with Professor Tom O’Loughlin (Department of Theology and Religious Studies) the
importance of the library in…
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Mr Neil Smyth (the Senior Librarian for the Faculty of Arts) discusses with Professor Tom O’Loughlin (Department of Theology and Religious Studies) how the library can help those who are…
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Mr Neil Smyth (the Senior Librarian for the Faculty of Arts)
discusses with Professor. Tom O’Loughlin (Department of Theology and Religious Studies)
how Undergraduates can make the best use of…
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Dr Alison Milbank and Professor Tom O'Loughlin talk with Joe Scales, an undergraduate student in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, about the enjoyment they get from teaching…
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Dr Christina Lee, Associate Professor of Viking Studies in the School of English, looks at what we know about the religion of the Vikings. She introduces their mythology and explored the fact that we…
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Tom Gray talks about career opportunities in Pharmacy at one of the University's open days. For more information visit:http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/pharmacy/index.aspx
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Dr Frances Knight describes a ‘map of salvation’ produced by
the founder of the Salvation Army in 1890 that encapsulates his religious
vision.
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Prof. Richard Bell introduces the life and thought of Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860). The video gives an account of his epistemology – and how he was influenced by Kant – as a basis for…
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2015 is the eighth centenary of Lateran IV – often described as the most important western church council between the Council of Nicea (325) and the Reformation. Dr Claire Taylor of the Dept of…
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Dr John McDade explores Friedrich Nietzsche’s (1844-1900) notion of a ‘ladder of cruelty’ within the development of religion. McDade argues that this is, in some way, a secular…
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Dr Harith bin Ramli describes the annual celebration of the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, known as 'the Milad'. It is a time of joyful celebration, but also a time for recalling the…
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Dr Musharef Hussain, an Iman in Nottingham, explains what happens during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. During this month one of the most obvious practices is that of fasting during the hours of…
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Video for Ancient Religions and Cognition, a project developed by Dr Esther Eidinow from the Department of Classics at the University of Nottingham and Professor Tom Harrison at Liverpool University,…
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Tom tells us about his PhD, and why he chose to progress from undergraduate to postgraduate study at Nottingham.
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Tom talks about the teaching opportunities available for PhD students.
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