Colin Gunton Memorial Lecture 2025: Professor Nicholas Adams

The 2025 Colin Gunton Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Nicholas Adams, Professor of Philosophical Theology at the University of Birmingham.

Professor Adams develops philosophical tools to help repair theological problems. His Eclipse of Grace: Divine and Human Action in Hegel (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) is an excellent example of his distinctive approach. Relatedly, he pursues questions of truth and argumentation in inter-religious encounter, drawing on his long term engagement in the practice of Scriptural Reasoning.

Professor Adams will lecture on: "Toxic Positivity: How Philosophy Cheerfully Undermines Faith”

Schedule:

17:00-18:00h: Reception (River Room (K2.14), Strand Campus)

18:00-19:30h: Colin Gunton Memorial Lecture by Professor Nicholas Adams (Nash Lecture Theatre (K2.31), Strand Campus)

Student presentations will take place between 14:00h and 16:30h in the Nash Lecture Theatre (K2.31), Strand Campus, and are open to those with a (present or past) King’s affiliation.

 

Please register in advance using the link at the top of this page. We will operate on a first-come-first-served basis.