Workshop: The Rational Theology of the Cambridge Platonists
Cambridge University Divinity Faculty
28th and 29th July 2022
Organised by the Cambridge Platonist Research Caucus and the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism
Thursday, 28th July, 5.00: Beierwaltes Lecture
Thomas Hanke, Münster: “Aspects of the ‘inner Christ’: rational soteriology as a key feature of philosophy of religion” (Comparing Cudworth and Kant).
Friday, 29th July, 9.00–6.00: Workshop and Reading Seminar
9.00–9.45: Christian Hengstermann, Wuppertal, “Religious Epistemology and Biblical Hermeneutics in Henry More’s Early Poetry and University Sermons”
9.45–10.30: Bogdan Deznan, Bucharest, “Theosis in the Cambridge Platonists”.
Coffee break
11.00–11.45: Marilyn A. Lewis, Bristol, “A Cambridge Platonist Soteriology: Henry Hallywell's The Sacred Method of Saving Humane Souls by Jesus Christ (1677)”
11.45–12.30: Adrian Mihai, Cambridge, “Cudworth and the Problem of Atheism”
Lunch at Selwyn College
2.00–2.30: Douglas Hedley, Cambridge, Introduction to the Rational Theology of the Cambridge Platonists (Reading Seminar)
2.30–4.00: Readings from The Routledge Anthology of the Cambridge Platonists, “Ontology and Metaphysics”
Coffee break
4.30–6.00: Readings from The Routledge Anthology of the Cambridge Platonists, “Rational Theology”
6.00: Drinks reception to celebrate the foundation of The Cambridge Platonist Research Caucus