My neighbour beyond fear and discrimination with Sarah Coakley

With increasing division in the UK, renowned theologians and and practitioners examine the crucial question: Who is my neighbour?

With the UK voting to leave the European Union and with increasing division, xenophobia, and confusion over future national and international relationships, the St Martin-in-the-Fields Autumn Lecture Series examines the crucial question: Who is my Neighbour?

What does the Christian commandment to love one’s neighbour as oneself actually mean for us today. Lectures by renowned theologians and practitioners will reflect on this subject in relation to issues of ecology, immigration, fear and discrimination, the present political climate both in UK, Europe and the USA. We also contemplate how that the lives of our poorest neighbours may in fact be God’s gift to us as a church and as a nation.

Entry is free and open to all.

Sarah Coakley is Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. She is a leading scholar in the fields of Philosophy of Religion and Theological Ethics and has wide interdisciplinary interests. Her major works include Powers and Submissions: Spirituality, Philosophy and Gender (Blackwell, 2002), The New Asceticism: Sexuality, Gender and the Quest for God (Bloomsbury 2015) and God, Sexuality and the Self: An Essay ‘On the Trinity’ (Cambridge University Press, 2011): the first of a four-volume systematic theology. She is an Anglican priest in the diocese of Ely and a minor canon of Ely Cathedral

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