Love in Religion: A Common Ground between Three World Faiths

In this public lecture, Professor Paul Fiddes will explore the common ground opened up between Judaism, Christianity and Islam by the central theme of love, taking a perspective from two dualities in love. Love means the love of both God and neighbour, and it involves the relation between self-sacrificing love and self-fulfilling love. In a range of religions, love is thus seen to be both wanting the best for the other, and desire for union with the other. This has implications for both a doctrine of God and of human nature.

Professor Fiddes is Emeritus Professor in Systematic Theology at the University of Oxford. He is director of the Love in Religion Project (http://https://loveinreligion.org/), and was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2020. In a distinguished career he has authored, edited, and co-authored more than thirty books.

This lecture is free and all are welcome. Refreshments will be available from 17:00.

This event is funded by the British Academy.

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