Tag: News
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Conference: ‘Justice: Rights and Wrongs’
McDonald Centre Annual Conference, 2009 The McDonald Centre held a conference in 2009 entitled ‘Justice: Rights & Wrongs’ in the Blue Boar Lecture Theatre at Christ Church, Oxford. The conference celebrated and critiqued Nicholas Wolterstorff’s important recent book on the historical and theological foundations of the idea of human dignity. The conference considered the questions arising from Wolterstorff’s…
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Was Jesus a Pacifist? A Debate
On 30 October 2008, Richard B. Hays of Duke University and Nigel Biggar debated non-violence in the New Testament. The event was co-sponsored by the Hursley Theological Society and chaired by Markus Bockmuehl of Keble College. Hays is the author of the the bestselling The Moral Vision of the New Testament. A printed version of their…