The Reverend Professor Jeremy Begbie, of Wolfson College, will preach the University sermon on Sunday, in the University Church, Great St Mary's, at 11.15am.
A graduate of the Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen, Jeremy Begbie is an Associate of the Royal College of Music, a Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music and a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music.
Currently an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Music, Professor Begbie is also the inaugural Thomas A. Langford Research Professor in Theology at Duke Divinity School, North Carolina, and the founding Director of Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts.
Ordained in the Church of England, formerly Associate Principal at Ridley Hall, and sometime Director of Theology Through the Arts at the Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies in the Faculty of Divinity, Jeremy Begbie directed the research project Theology Through the Arts at the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts at St Andrews, where he was an Honorary Professor.
He teaches systematic theology, specialising in the interface between theology and the arts and with a particular research interest in the interplay between music and theology. As a professionally trained musician, Professor Begbie delivers performance-lectures worldwide.
His publications include Voicing Creation’s Praise: Towards a Theology of the Arts; Theology, Music and Time and, most recently, Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music, which won the Christianity Today book award in the Theology/Ethics category in 2008.
All are welcome at the sermon and the choir of Wolfson College will sing during the service. There will be a wine-reception in Michaelhouse afterwards.
Members of the University should wear their gowns.