With the anniversary next year of 1700 years since the Council of Nicaea, consideration is being given in ecumenical circles for establishing in the common lectionary a Feast of Creation, such as the Orthodox already observe. “God, maker of heaven and earth, all things visible and invisible” seems to be the only element of the Nicene Creed to lack a feast day.
Janet Soskice recently took part in an ecumenical colloquium at Assisi on this proposal, and will tell us something about it, and give a version of her own paper on the doctrine of creation and the glory of creatures.
Speaker Bio
Janet Martin Soskice is William K. Warren Distinguished Research Professor of Catholic Theology. Dr. Soskice’s work lies at the intersection of Christian theology and philosophy. She has been particularly interested in questions of method and the Doctrine of God: religious language, metaphysics and epistemology, narrative and genre, doctrine of creation, women and religion, beauty and western art, science and religion, and theological writing. Her most recent book publication is Naming God: Addressing the Divine in Philosophy, Theology and Scripture (Cambridge University Press).
Dr. Soskice is a past president of both the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain and the Society for the Study of Theology, and has been a Eugene McCarthy Visiting Professor at the Gregorian University in Rome and president of the Cambridge University Catholic Association. She is a member of the English and Welsh Anglican/ Roman Catholic Committee and takes part in Christian/Muslim dialogue.