Strudwick Lecture

Vincent Strudwick Lecture

at Kellogg College, University of Oxford

The Vincent Strudwick Lecture is named in honor of Oxford theologian and scholar Canon Dr. Vincent Strudwick who has been a longtime professor at, and friend to, the Graduate Theological Foundation. Established in 2011 and sponsored by the GTF, the Vincent Strudwick Lecture is held annually at Kellogg College, University of Oxford. The Vincent Strudwick Lecture was established in recognition of the important scholarship and contributions of The Revd Canon Dr. Vincent Strudwick.

About Vincent Strudwick

Canon Vincent Strudwick played an early and pivotal role in the forging of an institutional affiliation in the 1990’s between the GTF and the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. He served for many years as Director of the Department’s annual Oxford Theology Summer School. He has stated that although “emeritus and no longer able to contribute actively, I continue to value and support the work of GTF and the opportunities it has created for those involved in ministry, am grateful to the Foundation for this annual lecture, and delighted that the Summer Theology Program at Christ Church continues under the Directorship of Canon Angela Tilby.”

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Lecturers

Rabbi Dame Julia Neuberger (2019)
Member of the British House of Lords

Lecture: Civility in Public Life

Neil MacGregor (2018)

Former Director of the British Museum and current founding Director of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin

Lecture: Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples

Linda Woodhead, MBE, FAcSS (2017)

Professor of Sociology of Religion in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University (UK)

Director of the Institute of Social Futures

Lecture: The Religion of No Religion: Are the ‘Nones’ Religious, Spiritual or Neither?

Professor Mona Siddiqui, OBE, FRSE, FRSA (2016)

Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies at the University of Edinburgh

Lecture: The politics of piety: voices and values in public life

Baron Williams of Oystermouth (The Rt. Revd Dr. Rowan Williams) (2015)

Master of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge

Former Archbishop of Canterbury, Metropolitan of the Province of Canterbury and Primate of All England

Former Bishop of Monmouth and Archbishop of Wales

Lecture: “Religion and Belief in Public Life: proposed new legislation in a time of cultural change”

Dr. Richard Holloway (2014)

Former Gresham Professor of Divinity (London)

Former Bishop of Edinburgh (Scottish Episcopal Church)

Lecture: “Seeing Visions and Hearing Voices: Another look at religious experience and expression”

The Rev’d Canon Dr. Jane Shaw (2012)

Dean of Grace Cathedral (San Francisco, California)

Fellow and Evelyn Underhill Professor of Historical Theology (GTF)

Former Chaplain and Fellow (New College, University of Oxford)

Lecture: “Cultivating a Moral Imagination: Religion, Art and the Humanities in the Public Sphere”

Lord Harries of Pentregarth (2011)

Former Bishop of Oxford, England

Honorary Fellow (GTF)

Gresham Professor of Divinity (London)

Lecture: “Allies or opponents? Secular and religious contributions to public policy”