THE CHURCH & THE WORLD
2016
The Newman Lectures began as an idea in 2013 and was put on with a wing and a prayer in 2014.
Since then we have grown into a well-respected lecture series, regularly filling large venues on the University of East Anglia campus.
Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor
Former Archbishop of Westminster
THE CHANGING FACES OF THE PAPACY
Rt Revd Dr Graham James
Bishop of Norwich
Francis Campbell
Vice Chancellor of St Mary's University, Twickenham
THE CHURCH IN SOCIETY AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THE STATE
Rt Revd Philip Egan
Bishop of Portsmouth
'MORE CATHOLIC THAN THE POPE':
THE ENCOUNTER OF ANGLO-CATHOLICISM WITH THE PAPACY AND THE REVIVAL OF A NORFOLK SHRINE
'GAUDIAM ET SPES:
THE CHURCH AND THE MODERN WORLD
NEWMAN LECTURES
2015
16 February
Professor John Morrill
University of Cambridge
The Culture of Prayer Amongst Persecuted English Catholics 1560-1760
23 February
Professor Carole Rawcliffe
University of East Anglia
Christ the Physician Walks the Wards: Religion and Medicine in Later Medieval England
2 March
Professor Eamon Duffy
University of Cambridge
John Henry Newman
9 March
Professor Henry Mayr-Harting
University of Oxford
Confession:
Yesterday and Today
16 March
Dr Karen Smyth
University of East Anglia
John Lydgate's Medieval Identities:
Monk, Poet, and Graffiti Artist
CATHOLICS &
ENGLISH HISTORY
2014
10 March
Dungeon, Fire and Sword
Professor John Morrill
University of Cambridge
17 March
Gladstone and Newman:
the limits of conscience
Professor John Charmley
University of East Anglia
24 March
Thomas a Becket and
the Victorians
Professor Nicholas Vincent
University of East Anglia
31 March
Thomas Tresham and liturgical space in the recusant age
Dr Andrew Eburne
University of East Anglia