“Theology and Human Flourishing" with Clive Marsh, University of Leicester
Channel: FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Date: 2018-12-17

The Davide Zordan Lecture is an event annually held in late Autumn. It was established to honor the memory of Davide Zordan (photo), a senior researcher of the Center for Religious Studies of FBK, who died in 2015, when he was only 47 years old. In tune with the Center’s mission to study the interaction between religion and innovation, the Lecture’s focus is on the role of theology in a secular society.

In this year’s presentation, Clive Marsh (University of Leicester) will talk about “Theology and Human Flourishing: Explorations in Contemporary Understandings of Salvation”. Today, when the theme of “redemption” appears outside of Christianity in the arts and popular culture, it is unclear how salvation is to be understood and articulated. Has “happiness” anything to do with salvation? How are the traditional concerns of a doctrine of salvation addressed directly and indirectly in Western culture (i.e., in art, music, TV, film, positive psychology, and economic life) nowadays? After distilling the results of some case-studies in formulating a contemporary exposition of salvation, Marsh will concentrate his effort on showing what a cultural theology of salvation might mean in practice.

The lecture will be held in English with simultaneous translation into Italian.

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