Theologian and bestselling author of C S Lewis biography to give Hulsean Sermon
The Reverend Professor Alister McGrath is to preach the Hulsean Sermon on Sunday, 1 March in the University Church, Great St Mary's, at 11.15 a.m.
The Hulsean Sermon, to be preached on The Truth and Excellence of Revealed Religion, or the Evidence of Christianity originates in the will of John Hulse, of St John's College, who died in 1790.
Professor McGrath is currently Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion and Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, University of Oxford.
He held the Naden Research Studentship for Research in Divinity at St John's College 1978-80, began his academic career in Oxford reading chemistry as an undergraduate and then completing a DPhil in molecular biophysics.
Later Professor McGrath switched to theology and he now holds Oxford higher doctorates in both Divinity and Letters. An Anglican priest since 1981, McGrath was Principal of Wycliffe Hall in Oxford from 1995 to 2004 and Professor of Theology, Ministry and Education at King's College, London, before taking up the Andreas Idreos Chair in Oxford in 2014. He is a Senior Research Fellow of Harris Manchester College.
His particular interests include the use of science by leading atheists, the place of science and religion in debates about the 'Two Cultures' and concepts of rationality and explanation in science and religion.
The author of numerous publications since 1988, Professor McGrath's bestselling biography C S Lewis: a Life appeared in 2013.
All are welcome and there will be a wine-reception in Michaelhouse afterwards for those present.
Members of the University attending should wear their gowns.