Moving to Liblog

Dear Followers,

Just to let you all know that the Theology blog is now moving to a general library blog where you will receive all the library news as well as that specifically for Theology. Hopefully you will find the new portal full of up-to-the-minute information which will be useful to you.

Please feel free to post up any comments on the new site.

Books that Shook the World!

The Chancellor of the Cathedral, Canon Dr. Anthony Cane, will be giving a series of free lectures in Chichester Cathedral.  The lectures are all free and will follow the Choral Evensong, starting at  6.30pm. The dates and books being discussed are as follows:

Thursday 5th May: The King James Bible

Thursday 12th May: Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

Thursday 19th May: Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

Thursday 26th May: Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Christian Theology – The March Collection of the Month

This months collection of books will hopefully appeal to those studying the module, ‘Principles of Christian Theology’.  The ten books chosen are available to view and can be borrowed from the library display.

American Journal of Theology and Philosophy

The January 2011 issue of the American Journal of Theology and Philosophy is now available via the library ’electronic resource’, ‘Project Muse’.  This volume (no. 32), issue 1, covers issues on:

Hegelian Spirit in Question: The Idealistic Spirit of Liberal Theology

Religious Imagination in a Late Secular Age: Extending Liberal Traditions in the Twenty-first Century

The Ambiguous Heritage and Perpetual Promise of Liberal Theology

Reflections on the Benefits and Risks of Interdisciplinary Study in Theology, Philosophy, and Literature

Religion and the Ritual of Public Discourse

If you need any help accessing these articles, please let me know.

Come and join in the Library Workshops!

Over the next few weeks the Librarians with be holding Library Workshops over the lunchtime period and across both campuses. The workshops cover various topics including using e-books; e-journals and ‘rss’ feeds. For a list of the workshop titles and all the dates and times (initially for the first workshops at Chichester), you can either pick up a leaflet at either campus library; see the library notice boards; or look at the list on the ‘My Library’ page on Portia.

Church History – The January Collection of the Month

The January collection of the month is on Church History and will hopefully be of specific use to those of you study THL131. on ‘Introduction to Church History’. 

As usual, the books can be found on the display shelves on the 1st floor of the library.  Please free to borrow any of the items from the display.

Talk by Dr. Agnetta Sutton – ‘Embryonic or Adult Stem Cells: a question of life and death’

Many of you will know Dr. Agneta Sutton. This week she is giving a talk entitled ‘Embryonic or Adult Stem Cells: a question of life and death’. Her talk will start at 7.30pm on Thursday 20th January, 2011, in the Parish Centre in Hislop Close, behind ‘Our Lady of Sorrows’ Catholic Church, Clarence Road, Bognor Regis. The talk is free and should finish at around 9pm.

The Library Opening Hours Extended Until Midnight (Monday-Thursday) For The Next 5 Weeks.

The Library/Learning Resource Centre will be open until midnight (Monday – Thursday) for reference and study.  These hours will be from today, Monday, 15th November until Thursday, 16th  December 2010.  The library counter hours will remain as normal, closing at 9.45pm, so make sure you have any items that you wish to borrower, booked out before the issue desk closes.

Introduction to Spirituality

For all those studying THL171 – Introduction to Spirituality, this months display of books on the first floor of the library is taken from the ‘recommended reading’.  Have a look at the ’Collection of the Month’ shelves and feel free to borrow any items on display.  For a preview, please see the ‘collection of the month’ link to the left of this blog.

Exciting News about the ‘Dead Sea Scrolls’

Dr. Clive Field of the University of Birmingham reports that,

“Ever since their discovery in the late 1940s in eleven caves in the neighbourhood of Qumran, in the Judean Desert at the north-west end of the Dead Sea, the Dead Sea Scrolls have been incrementally transforming our knowledge of the Old Testament, Jewish life and thought between 20 BC and 70 AD, and the origins of Christianity. They are considered one of the greatest archaeological finds of the last century.

Access to the scrolls (at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem) has always been extremely limited, mostly to some 300 accredited scholars (apart from occasional exhibitions). So it is exciting news that, as part of its twentieth anniversary celebrations, the Israel Antiquities Authority yesterday announced that it is teaming up with Google’s Israeli Research and Design Centre in a $3,500,000 project to digitize all 30,000 fragments and make them freely available online.

Images will be created to the highest possible resolution, using infrared technology (which will allow researchers to see parts of the fragments that have turned black with age). The first images should be available next Spring, although the entire project will not be completed for some considerable time. The scrolls – in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek – will be accompanied by transcriptions and English translations, with translations into other languages to follow”.