Douglas Knight

This fraternal encounter which brings us together, Pope Benedict XVI of Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, is God’s work, and in a certain sense his gift. We give thanks to the Author of all that is good, who allows us once again, in prayer and in dialogue, to express the joy we feel as [...]

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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI
Your Holiness, beloved Brother in the Lord,
It is with sentiments of sincere joy and satisfaction that we welcome you to the sacred and historical city of Istanbul.
This is a city that has known a treasured heritage for the growth of the Church through the ages. It [...]

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John Paul II’s “theology of the body,” which he laid out in 130 general audience addresses between 1979 and 1984, is arguably the most creative Christian response to the sexual revolution and its “pulverization” of the human person to be articulated in the twentieth century. Its philosophical core is Wojtyla’s claim that what we might [...]

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I am always ready to talk up any theological discussion going on in the UK, so I’m keeping an eye on Statford Caldecott’s Second Spring which is offering
Theology of the Body – London day conference

Give Me Sensible Reasons To Believe:
the true teaching of the Catholic Church about
SEX SEX and the reasons WHY
A one-day [...]

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Society for the Study of Christian Ethics conference 2007
The Ideology of Managerialism in Church, Politics and Society
7th-9th September, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, UK
Presenters include
Professor Michael L. Budde,
Chair of the Department of Political Science,
DePaul University
Professor John Milbank,
Professor in Religion, Politics & Ethics,
Nottingham University
Professor Allen Verhey,
Professor of Christian Ethics, Duke Divinity School
Dr. Bernd Wannenwetsch,
Lecturer in Ethics, [...]

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The Christian Church began as a reconstructed version of the notion of God’s people – a community called by God to make God known to the world in and through the forms of law-governed common life – the ‘law’ being, in the Christian case, the model of action and suffering revealed in Jesus Christ. It [...]

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I am wondering about theological education in London, and in particular wondering about this term ‘Christian university’. So I am off around the internet to find examples of thriving theological faculties in the hope that they will provide some inspiration. First stop:
Duke Divinity School
The Doctor of Theology program provides students with academically rigorous training, [...]

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Amy Welborn has started covering Pope Benedict” visit to the Ecumenical Patriarch.
The Vatican has posted details of the services to be celebrated:
The Divine Liturgy begins with an invocation of the Holy Trinity: “Blessed be the kingdom of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit…”. Three litanies follow, a longer one and [...]

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I have created some new links –
to Sandro Magister at Chiesa for intelligent theological commentary from the Vatican. For more gossipy Vatican news stories see John Allen.
to Janet E. Smith, Professor of Moral Theology at Sacred Heart Detroit and a superb commentator on Evangelium Vitae and much else – see her ‘Articles’
to the [...]

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What a relief to get out of ordinary time.
As I watched,
thrones were set in place,
and an Ancient One took his throne;
his clothing was white as snow,
and the hair of his head like pure wool;
his throne was fiery flames,
and its wheels were burning fire.
A stream of [...]

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Conversation keeps turning to theology in London. Sometimes the mood is despondent, sometimes constructive and ambitious. How to begin? Now I appreciate this won’t interest the majority of you who are outside the UK. But it does seem as though the Brits have to talk to each other through the Americans – we are noticeably [...]

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One highlight of the AAR, though there was no fanfare, was the arrival of Communion and Otherness: Further Studies in Personhood and the Church, the second volume of Metropolitan John Zizioulas.
I intended to post a chunk from the cracking Preface by Rowan Williams and the author’s dedication to George Florovksy and Colin [...]

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These, of course, are points that Joseph Ratzinger has been making for years, indeed decades. In Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures, he synthesizes his arguments into a series of finely-tuned propositions on which all men and women of good will would do well to reflect. Among the most important of these propositions I would [...]

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Knight went to the AAR. He was briefly allowed to leave his desk, London, and the whole UK for the Annual Conference of the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) in Washington DC.
Highlights were:
Volf Krötke (Berlin) at the Barth Society, ably introduced by Philip Zeigler.
Luke Bretherton (KCL – [...]

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So when we think about the processes of production, about the whole pattern of an economy, we should be asking in what sense it is intelligent production – work directed towards the maintenance of a recognisably human environment. That recognisably human environment is, for the Christian believer, one in which the habits of self-examination and [...]

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Up until a couple of years ago I was keeping a bibliography which had reached about a thousand items, representing the trails into non-theological territory which I hoped to follow once I had got The Eschatological Economy out of the way. This bibliography was in MS Access on my overworked laptop – the laptop that [...]

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The University of St Thomas Center for Catholic Studies is dedicated to the integration of faith and reason in every facet of life. Our programs and services create an environment where students, alumni and others can engage their faith within contemporary culture and grow both intellectually and spiritually.
The Center for Catholic Studies is an [...]

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The real Christ for the Orthodox Church is the Christ of the gospels and Acts; the Christ of the writings attributed to the apostles John and Paul, and Peter and James and Jude. There is no other Christ for the Orthodox Church. A Christ produced by scholars, mystics, poets or politicians – or even by [...]

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Seventy Church of Engand and Roman Catholic bishops were urged today to intervene to help thousands of Christian students at British universities from having the organisations representing them banned.
Among those asked to take action to save Christian Union societies were the Archbishops of Canterbury and Westminster.
The rise of secularism in the UK is among the [...]

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How about a Cosmic Liturgy retreat-and-conference at Oxford next Easter?
Cosmic Liturgy

Over Easter 2007 we are offering an educational and [...]

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