Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch
Silence in Christian History: the witness of Holmes' Dog
Event details
Lecture series title: Silence in Christian History: the witness of Holmes' Dog
Dates: 23, 24, 26, 30 April; 1,3 May 2012 all at 5.30pm
Venue: St Cecilia's Hall, Cowgate, Edinburgh EH1 1NQ
[Image credit: Chris Guibbons]
Biography
Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch will deliver the 2011-2012 Gifford Lecture Series at the University of Edinburgh.
Diarmaid MacCulloch, Kt, DD, FBA, FRHistS, FSA, Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford, Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, and prize-winning author, has written extensively on the sixteenth century and beyond it.
His 'History of Christianity: the first three thousand years' (Penguin Press) and the BBC TV series based on it first appeared in 2009, and won him the Cundill Prize, the world’s largest prize for history, in 2010.
His series ‘How God made the English’ is due for showing on BBC2 in early 2012.
He was knighted in the New Year’s Honours List of 2012.
Lecture videos and abstracts
Lecture videos, and abstracts, are available for each lecture, providing an overview of the series:
- Lecture 1: Introduction: voices and silence in Tanakh and Christian New Testament
- Lecture 2: Catholic Christianity and the arrival of ascetism, 100-400
- Lecture 3: Silence through schism and two Reformations: 451-1500
- Lecture 4: Silence transformed: the third Reformation 1500-1700
- Lecture 5: Getting behind noise in Christian history
- Lecture 6: Silence in modern and future Christianities
This article was published on May 15, 2012