Professor David Hempton, Senior Professor at Harvard University and Dean of Harvard Divinity School, will give a series of lectures titled Networks, Nodes, and Nuclei in the History of Christianity, c. 1500-2020. Event Details Historians of Christianity, even when innovative in theory and method, have mostly written within national, denominational, or institutional frameworks. Yet many of the most important changes and developments within Christianity have been transnational in scope, trans-denominational in character, and not easily contained within institutional or hierarchical structures. What difference would it make to reimagine the history of Christianity in terms of transnational networks, nodal junction boxes of encounter and transmission, and a greater sense of the core memes and messages of religious traditions and expressions? That is the principal question to be explored in the following set of lectures. Dates: 4-14 October, 5.30-6.30pm The lectures may be followed by questions. Latest finishing time is 7pm. Venue: The Playfair Library, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh EH8 9YL This event is open to all but tickets need to be booked in advance. Tickets for individual lectures can be booked here: Book Tickets Gifford Seminar At this year's Seminar, Gifford lecturer Professor Hempton will join leading academics to discuss questions from the audience arising from his Gifford Lecture Series, “Networks, Nodes, and Nuclei in the History of Christianity, c. 1500-2020". The Seminar will be held online. If you would like to attend please email mark.newman@ed.ac.uk to request the link. Date: 13 October, 1-2pm Venue: Microsoft Teams Panel: Professor Hempton will be joined by Susan Hardman-Moore, Professor of Early Modern Religion, and Professor Brian Stanley, Professor in World Christianity, both of New College Chairperson: Professor Stewart Brown Further Information Further information about this event is available on the University of Edinburgh Website: Gifford Lectures 2020/21 This article was published on 2024-03-19
