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Research Seminar in Inter-Religious Relations - Marietta van der Tol
'The Christian Nation in Protestant Thought: Old Wine in New Bottles?' Friday, 25 October 2019 12.30-2pm in the Lightfoot Room
This seminar will discuss the kinship between the corpus Christianum and the Christian nation state, compare critical reflections to either from withing continental traditions of Protestant political thought, and reflect on its implications for responses to right-wing populism today.
The respondent is Dr Muthuraj Swamy (Director, Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide, Westminster College).
All colleagues, undergraduate, MPhil and PhD students in the Divinity Faculty or other areas (such as Classics, History, Modern & Medieval Languages, English, Philosophy and FAMES) are warmly welcome to attend this seminar.