The First World War Burial Cross of 2nd Lieutenant W.S. Gardner - presented by Canon Professor George Pattison

 

Presented by Canon Professor George Pattison, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, University of Oxford.   The twentieth century saw some of the bloodiest and most devastating conflicts in human history, and often between supposedly Christian nations. The slaughter of millions on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918, in particular, devastated the confidence of Christianity in Europe, and prompted a wholesale reconsideration of the nation-state's trinity of King, God and Country. In this talk, Canon Pattison considers his great uncle's burial place in France to reflect upon the effects of global warfare upon Christianity in the twentieth century.   George Pattison has been Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and a Canon of Christ Church Cathedral since 2004. After 14 years as a parish priest he was Dean of King's College Chapel, Cambridge for 10 years before moving to Denmark (2002-3), where he taught Practical Theology. He has published widely on theology and art, and modern religious thought, especially Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky and other existentialist theologians. His books include Crucifixions and Resurrections of the Image and God and Being.   Thursday, 28th June in Deddington Parish Church.

 

An introduction from Canon Professor George Pattison.

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