The Critic published (18 March) Nigel Biggar's review of The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Cultural Violence and Cultural Restitution (Pluto Press), a book by archaeologist Dan Hicks (Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, University of Oxford). Biggar's review, 'Whites and wrongs', offers a counter-examination of the claims and conclusions set out by Hicks and closes with a clarion call for scholarly rigour and intellectual...
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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.