The Costan Lectures 2022
The Wonder of Living – A Johannine Renaissance in the Twenty-first Century
David F. Ford , University of Cambridge
Bicentennial Hall
In The Johannine Renaissance in Early English Literature and Theology the American scholar Paul Cefalu found that the Gospel of John inspired a deep, creative response to the transformative yet often traumatic events of the Renaissance, Reformation, and Counter-Reformation in Europe. In these Costan Lectures, which spring from more than twenty years work on The Gospel of John. A Theological Commentary (2021), David Ford asks what a Johannine renaissance might be like in our twenty-first century world. He engages with and improvises upon three key elements of the Gospel of John: the horizon of God and all reality, as introduced in the Prologue; Jesus Christ, the drama of whose incarnation, life and teaching, death and resurrection, is central; and the ongoing drama of life inspired by the Holy Spirit.
-Lecture 1: Worldview
Tuesday 1st November
5:00-6:30 pm
-Lecture 2: Jesus
Wednesday 2nd November
5:00-6:30 pm
-Lecture 3: Spirituality
Thursday 3rd November
6:00-7:30 pm
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