In his Standpoint feature essay (published 18/09/2019), Nigel Biggar analyses the problems raised by recent intemperate criticisms of his 'Ethics and Empire' project, explains their larger civic significance, and proposes some solutions. In particular, he challenges universities to take seriously the responsibility to promote the practice of intellectual virtues, so that graduate citizens will leave their alma maters capable of rational public dialogue about emotively controversial...
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The McDonald Centre fosters conversation both between Christian theology and other disciplines, and between academia and those who shape public deliberation and policy. Into its discussions it draws scholars from around the world, as well as public office-holders, civil servants, policy-makers, and opinion-formers. By publishing the research it supports, the Centre communicates to academic, church, and wider public audiences. The work of the Centre responds to a growing awareness that sensitively engaged and carefully articulated moral and political theology has an important contribution to make to the flourishing of institutions and individuals within liberal democracies.
The McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics & Public Life is a research institute at the University of Oxford.