Great Mystics Address the Contemporary World

Saturday, 6 March 2010

Symposium Venue:
Lecture Theatre 2, School of Humanities, 11 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TB

10.00 -10.30 Coffee & Registration

10.30 – 11.30

Keynote Speaker:
Prof. Emeritus Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago):
Great Mystics address the contemporary world

11.30 – 12.15 Prof. Oliver Davies (King’s College, London): ‘Negative Theology’ and the Excess of History

LUNCH (12.15-13.55)

14.00 -1 4.45 Dr Joseph Milne (University of Kent, Canterbury): Mystical Aspects of Christian Cosmology

14.45 – 15.30 Dr. Edward Howells (Heythrop College, London): ‘“O Guiding Night!”: Darkness as the Way to God in John of the Cross’ Mysticism’

TEA/COFFEE (15.30 – 16.00)

16.00 – 16.45 Prof. Tina Beattie (Roehampton): BLOODY WOMEN – Luce and Catherine answer back, but who has the last word?

16.45 – 17.30 Dom Aidan Bellenger (Abbot of Downside): ‘Benedictine Opening up and the Mystical Tradition.’

17.40 – 18.15 Roundtable discussion , including ‘question and answer’ session

The event is followed by dinner – please see registration form for details.

Cost (including lunch and coffee): £25 (when registering before 1 February 2010).
Reduced student rates are available.

To download the registration form, please visit www.bris.ac.uk/arts/birtha/greatmystics