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Conference 2012 Programme
What it Means to be a Person
The Religious Philosophy of John Macmurray
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10:30 Arrival and registration, with tea and coffee
11:00 Introduction to the day
11:05 Esther McIntosh: ‘Religion in Public: Macmurray on Religion and Politics’
12:00 Questions
1:00 Buffet LUNCH – hopefully in the garden
2:00 Announcements
2:05 Panel Discussion: John Macmurray – a philosopher for the 21st Century
2:45 Questions
3:15 Plenary Session
4:00 Tea
Disperse by 5:00
Conference 2012
What it Means to be a Person
The Religious Philosophy of John Macmurray
Macmurray’s focus on agency and relationality allows for a non-dogmatic and non idealistic understanding of religion as being about the fulfilment of positive person-to-person relationships.
Saturday 20th October 2012
10.30am-4.30pm
The Friends’ Meeting House
43 St Giles
Oxford OX1 3LW Click for directions
Main address:
‘Religion in Public: Macmurray on Religion and Politics’
by Esther McIntosh, Research fellow at the Faculty of Education and Theology, York St. John University, and author of ‘John Macmurray’s Religious Philosophy – What it means to be a Person’.
Panel Discussion:
John Macmurray – a philosopher for the 21st Century
John Macmurray’s philosophy may have been neglected in the last century, but is finding increasing sway in psychology, mental health, sociology, emotional education, bioethics, politics and feminist theology.
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