The Revd Professor Trevor Hart from the University of St Andrews School of Divinity will deliver the Margaret Harries lecture on religion in the Chaplaincy Centre at 5.15pm on 27 May.
The lecture is titled "On God and goodness: Religious vision and moral capacity". Trevor Hart has been Professor of Divinity and Principal of St Mary’s College in the University of St Andrews since 1995. He has published widely in systematic and historical theology, and is currently researching and writing on the place of imagination in religious belief and theology. He is director of the recently established Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts in St Andrews.The Margaret Harris lecture on religion has been an annual University event since 1965. Past lecturers have included many eminent names from the field of religion and philosophy including Terry Waite, Sir Kenneth Dover, Rabbi Julia Neuberger and Sir Jonathon Porritt.