Research

The following Research seminars have taken place over the last Academic Years:                             

TRIS Research Seminar Series:  Religion, Culture and Identity

24/11/10  Dr Jonathan Wooding, Trinity Saint David, Uses of History in ‘New’ or ‘Secular’ Monasticisms

10/11/10  Dr Andrei Puzynin, Trinity Saint David, Donetsk, Ukraine, Reconstructing the practice of Biblical Interpretation in the tradition of the Gospel Christians

8/12/10  Dr Bill Campbell, Trinity Saint David, Identity Issues in Pauline Interpretation

23/02/11 Dr Mawil Izzi Dien, Trinity Saint David Islamic eco-theology; from the "green man" to the trust concept

09/03/11 Dr Thomas Jansen, Trinity Saint David Bringing the Gods to Mind: Images and Associational Thought in Chinese Folk Buddhist Scriptures

23/03/11 Dr Jonathan Wooding, Trinity Saint David, Uses of History in ‘New’ or ‘Secular’ Monasticisms 

06/04/11 Dr Katharina Zinn, Trinity Saint David, Temples, Cultural Memory and Collective Wisdom – News from Ancient Egypt

03/10/11 Prof. Densil Morgan, “Lampeter, Mirfield and the World: The Life and Work of Bishop Timothy Rees (1874-1939)”

14/11/11 Prof. JanetBurton, Prof. Janet Burton: “From Hermitage to Royal Abbey: Historical Writing and the Creation of a Monastic Identity”

05/12/11 Prof. Martin O'Kane, "From Text to Image: The Reception of the Bible in Welsh Visual Culture”

30/01/12 Dr. William Marx, “Between the Devil and the DeepBlueSea: Medieval Law and Redemption”

20/02/12 Prof. Johannes Hoff, “The In/Visibility of God in Nicholas of Cusa: An Aesthetic Approach to the Foundations of Christian Theology”

08/02/12 Dr Kathy Ehrensperger, Cultural Interaction under Rome: Paul a Hybrid Jew?

22/02/12 Dr. John T.Williams, Aberystwyth, Nonconformists in England and Wales reacting to Biblical Criticism in the Nineteenth Century

07/03/12 Dr. Augustine Casiday, Trinity Saint David, “If you pray truly,”…what happens next ?  The ‘theologos’ according to Evagrius Ponticus

14/03/12 Edward Pillar, PhD Candidate‘I myself…am a slave’: Exploring Romans 7:14-25 as an Example of Paul’s Negotiation of Living Within and Between Conflicting Cultures

21/03/12 Dr. John Morgan-Guy, Trinity Saint David, The Red Flag and a Pair of Scissors; An Anglican Chaplaincy and the 1971 Russian

28/03/12 Ass. Prof.Maya Warrier, Trinity Saint David, ,‘New Age’ Hinduism: A Conceptual Exploration