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Her paper for our conference is entitled: ‘What makes a Gothic novel Christian: From Dracula to Sarah Perry's Melmoth'.

We're continuing to highlight the fantastic speakers who will be presenting at the conference ‘What makes a novel Christian?’ on 13 May @PuseyHouse Professor Alison Milbank is Professor Emeritus of Theology and Literature at @UniofNottingham ... 1/4

What makes a novel CHRISTIAN!? Livestream this Oxford conference with its amazing lineup of voices weighing in— May 13 ticketsource.com/pusey-house/wh…

More details about the conference can be found by going to puseyhouse.org.uk/conferences You can get a ticket now by going to ticketsource.co.uk/pusey-house/

Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Hinterland, Howl, Dappled Things, and The Brick Lane Bookshop Anthology. Her paper for our conference is entitled: 'Mysticism and the Modern Novel.' 4/

For the next few days, we will be highlighting the fantastic speakers who will be presenting at the conference on ‘What makes a novel Christian?’ (13 May) @puseyhouse Prof Bonnie Lander Johnson is Fellow and Associate Professor in English Literature at @downingcollege 1/

His novels have a satirical edge that could easily be compared to Evelyn Waugh’s early work and his most recent novels explore the complexities of keeping the Christian faith in the modern world. 3/

Prof Randy Boyagoda is Vice-Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science, & a Professor in the English Department at the University of Toronto. He is the author of four novels, with a fifth one, Lords of Serendipity, about to be published worldwide in Sept 2026 by @HarperCollins 2/

His paper is entitled: ‘What is seen, what is believed: Belief in/and the Novel.’ More details about the conference can be found by going to puseyhouse.org.uk/conferences and you can get a ticket now by going to ticketsource.co.uk/pusey-house/ 6/6

He contributes essays, reviews, and opinions to publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, the Walrus, First Things, Commonweal, Harper’s, the TLS , the Financial Times, the Guardian, the New Statesman, and the Globe and Mail. 5/

For the next few days, we will be highlighting the fantastic speakers who will be presenting at the conference on ‘What makes a novel Christian?’ on 13 May @puseyhouse So, firstly, Professor Randy Boyagoda... 1/

The lecture will also be live-streamed and the recording will be available on our YT channel: youtube.com/live/sZVHhCN8k…

...grappled with the question of theology’s role in the modern research university, and how their arguments relate to contemporary debates about the ‘demarcation’ of science, the nature of academic disciplines, and the value of theology.

Join us next Wednesday 29 April at 4pm for our first lecture of the term by David Williams. His lecture will explore how three very different 19th-century theologians, who helped to found modern universities (Friedrich Schleiermacher, John Henry Newman, and Abraham Kuyper)...

And we have lectures coming up on ‘What makes theology scientific?’, E.L. Mascall, liturgy and ethical formation, and Prudentius’ hymns. The Peter Toon Lecture on ‘The Prayer Book and the Quiet Revival’ will be delivered by @_F_B_G_ on 27 May.

3. We have a conference at the end of the term on ‘Natural Law & War’, held in partnership with the Chase Center at Ohio State University, and the School of Civic Leadership at @UTAustin (18-19 June)

2. Public lectures by Prof Tracey Rowland and Prof Jason Blakely will be delivered @PuseyHouse as part of the conference on ‘MacIntyre in the Conflicts of Modernity’, held in partnership with the Canterbury Institute & the Aquinas Institute of Blackfriars Hall (11-12 June)

We have some excellent lectures and conferences coming up at @puseyhouse ! 1. What makes a novel Christian? (13 May) Speakers: Randy Boyagoda, Bonnie Lander Johnson, Alison Milbank, Grace Oliver, Lori Peterson Branch, @HollyOrdway , @beatrixscudeler , Clare Walker Gore.

We are delighted that the Bishop of Oxford @oxforddiocese will be our preacher this evening for High Mass at 6pm. This will follow Evensong at 5:30pm.

We have had some fantastic speakers recently at @PuseyHouse : Erik Varden, Rowan Williams, Iain @dr_mcgilchrist & Mary Harrington @moveincircles Did you know that you can watch the recordings of their lectures on our YT channel?