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Ysgrif yn trafod perthynas symbolaidd Lladin a'r Gymraeg, yr angen am ddysgu Lladin er mwyn archw... more Ysgrif yn trafod perthynas symbolaidd Lladin a'r Gymraeg, yr angen am ddysgu Lladin er mwyn archwilio hanes pobl frodorol, ac yn dadlau tros ddysgu Lladin a Ffrangeg drwy'r Gymraeg fel ieithoedd rhyngwladol heddiw.
Papers and articles by Carys Moseley
Erthygl ar gyfer Esboniadur y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol. Cyhoeddwyd yn 2017
Article for the December 2016 bulletin of Cytun (Churches Together in Wales) based on a seminar I... more Article for the December 2016 bulletin of Cytun (Churches Together in Wales) based on a seminar I gave in the churches' tent at the National Eisteddfod in Abergavenny, 4 August 2016.
Erthygl ym Mwletin Cytun, Rhagfyr 2016, yn seiliedig ar fy seminar ym mhabell yr eglwysi, Eistedd... more Erthygl ym Mwletin Cytun, Rhagfyr 2016, yn seiliedig ar fy seminar ym mhabell yr eglwysi, Eisteddfod y Fenni, 4 Awst 2016
Erthygl ar gyfer Esboniadur y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol. Cyhoeddwyd yn 2016
Erthygl ar gyfer Esboniadur y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol ar bwnc Drych Tywysogion, "genre" llenyd... more Erthygl ar gyfer Esboniadur y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol ar bwnc Drych Tywysogion, "genre" llenyddol ac athronyddol o'r cyfnod Clasurol, y Canol Oesoedd a'r Dadeni. Cyhoeddwyd yn 2016
Erthygl ar yr Aruchel (the Sublime) ar Esboniadur y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol. 2016
Dadleua'r papur hwn fod Johannes Duns Scotus (1266-1308) wedi llunio rhai agweddau o'i foeseg Cyf... more Dadleua'r papur hwn fod Johannes Duns Scotus (1266-1308) wedi llunio rhai agweddau o'i foeseg Cyfraith Naturiol mewn ffordd sy'n arddangos tebygrwydd a chyfatebiaeth i elfennau o gyfreithiau'r Cymry a chyfreithiau'r Hen Ogledd. (Mwyo fanylion i ddod maes o law.)
Diwinyddiaeth, Mar 2014
This paper proposes a new interpretation of major themes in the work of Johannes Wallensis OFM (c... more This paper proposes a new interpretation of major themes in the work of Johannes Wallensis OFM (c.1220-1285), arguing that many are best understood as stemming from his critical defence of Welsh legal and political sovereignty in parallel with his approach towards debates on the Franciscan Rule and the developing 'usus pauper' controversy.
I am currently translating this paper from Welsh into English and French.
This paper is the printed version of the lecture which I gave back in September 2013 on this topic (see 'Talks' section here).
Rowan Williams' attempt to speak for the common good and rein in the extremes of liberal individu... more Rowan Williams' attempt to speak for the common good and rein in the extremes of liberal individualism is at the core of his Hegelian co-ordination of ecclesiology and political theology. His is a managerial approach which co-ordinates his Anglican ecclesiology with a Hegelian political theology. Behind the approach of Rowan Williams lies a common liberal Anglican tradition of absorbing large tracts of Hegel's work to forge a political theology that is wedded to a liberal establishment ideology of managing not only the established Church of England and the global Anglican provinces, but also alternately co-opting and marginalising other more orthodox Christian theologies and churches. This paper aims to show how Williams' political thinking was secular from his first publication on politics, a paper on Welsh devolution based on an address given in 1979. This secular approach is rooted in a theological approach that advocates divine retreat from the world. I then analyse critically Williams' reading of Hegel in the three papers he wrote in the 1990s as he climbed the Anglican episcopal ladder. Reading Hegel enables Williams to theologise his secular post-Kantian political theory. I argue that Williams strives to read Hegel in a non-esoteric style, evading the hints towards Hegel's esoteric and pagan roots found in Gillian Rose and Andrew Shanks, to whom he is indebted for his reading of Hegel. Subsequently I show how all this has been incorporated into a managerial approach to types of theology, with an apophatic method peculiar to Williams being employed to manage more kataphatic and orthodox types. The doctrines of eschatology and creation constitute the outer poles of this method. This was the framework for Williams' discussion of the Islamic community in England and modern Palestine in his 2008 speech 'Islam in English Law'. The twin focus on England and Palestine, and on the definitions of religious community appropriated from J. N. Figgis and Gillian Rose, may account for the ambivalence towards the idea of the use of violence by the community in the speech.
Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations, Jan 1, 2010
Reinhold Niebuhr’s support for the foundation of the state of Israel is argued to be an expressio... more Reinhold Niebuhr’s support for the foundation of the state of Israel is argued to be an expression of his Christian realism, and as such is based on his ethics but not his theology. The first section assesses Niebuhr’s support for Jewish return to the Land of Israel in relation to modern protestant and Jewish support for relocation of the Promised Land back from America to British Mandate Palestine. The second section demonstrates that Niebuhr’s support for Zionism grew out of his threefold moral, political and theological realism. This meant taking into account Israel’s relation to the United States, and increasingly evidenced a national supersessionist outlook. The third section argues that this shift was undertaken via the role of the temporarily messianic nation, whereby the USA replaced Israel as a nation with a mission. In the fourth section, it is argued that the natural theology that underlies Niebuhr's ethics constitutes a 'Hebraic' turn which is ironic given that he does not ground his Zionism in the covenant with Abraham. The last section argues that Niebuhr’s support for Israel’s foundation needs to be understood within his reconstruction of natural law, along with his critique of the fusion of nationalism and religion in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As Niebuhr’s approach to Israel was based on ethics not dogmatic theology and exegesis, and as it became part of a notion of America as messianic, it failed to be passed on adequately to the mainline protestant churches.
Studies in Christian Ethics, Jan 1, 2008
KeywordS abortion; Anglo-Catholicism; fatherhood; feminism; Rowan Williams; sociology ... In a pa... more KeywordS abortion; Anglo-Catholicism; fatherhood; feminism; Rowan Williams; sociology ... In a paper published in 1989, rowan williams asserts that Christians ... Studies in Christian Ethics 21.2 (2008) 250268 doi: 10.1177/0953946808094345 © 2008 SaGe Publications, Los ...
Books by Carys Moseley
This book argues that problems with recognizing the State of Israel lie at the heart of approache... more This book argues that problems with recognizing the State of Israel lie at the heart of approaches to nationhood and unease over nationalism in modern Protestant theology, as well as modern social theory. Three interrelated themes are explored. The first is the connection between a theologian's attitude to recognizing Israel and their approach to the providential place of nations in the divine economy. Following from this, the argument is made that theologians' handling of both modern and ancient Israel are mirrored profoundly in the question of recognition and ethical treatment of the nations to which they belong, along with neighboring nations. The third theme is how social theory, represented by certain key figures, has handled the same issues. Four major theologians are discussed: Reinhold Niebuhr, Rowan Williams, John Milbank, and Karl Barth. Alongside them are placed social theorists and scholars of religion and nationalism, including Mark Juergensmeyer, Philip Jenkins, Anthony Smith, and Adrian Hastings. In the process, debates over the relationship between theology and social theory are reconfigured in concrete terms around the challenge of recognition of the State of Israel as well as stateless nations.
Karl Barth was well-known for his criticism of German nationalism as a corrupting influence on th... more Karl Barth was well-known for his criticism of German nationalism as a corrupting influence on the German protestant churches in the Nazi era. Defining and recognizing nationhood as distinct from the state is an important though underappreciated task in Barth's theology. It flows out of his deep concern for the capacity of nationalist dogma - that every nation must have its own state - to promote warfare. The problem motivated him to make his famous break with German liberal protestant theology.
In this book, Carys Moseley traces how Barth reconceived nationhood in the light of a lifelong interest in the exegesis and preaching of the Pentecost narrative in Acts 2. She shows how his responsibilities as a pastor of the Swiss Reformed Church required preaching on this text as part of the church calendar, and thus how his defence of the inclusion of the 'filioque' clause in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed stemmed from his ministry, homiletics and implicit missiology.
The concern to deny that nations exist primordially in creation was a crucial reason for Barth's dissent from his contemporaries over the orders of creation, and his polemic against 'natural theology' was largely by rejection of the German liberal idea that the rise and fall of nations is part of the cycle of nature, supposedly reflecting divine action. Against this conceit, Barth advanced his famous doctrine of the election of Israel as part of the election of the community of the people of God. This provides the way into understanding the division of the world into nations, and the divine recognition of all nations as communities wherein people are meant to seek God.
Talks by Carys Moseley
Ydy credu mewn Duw yn dylanwadu ar agweddau pobl heddiw? Ydy credoau pobl yn effeithio ar eu hymd... more Ydy credu mewn Duw yn dylanwadu ar agweddau pobl heddiw? Ydy credoau pobl yn effeithio ar eu hymddygiad neu beidio? Oes perthynas rhwng pleidleisio a chredu yn Nuw? Ydy pobl Cymru, a'r sawl sy'n eu hystyried eu hunain yn Gymru, yn wahanol i bobl 'Brydeinig' yn hyn o beth? A oes cysylltiad rhwng 'Cymreictod' ac arddel Cristnogaeth mewn enw, a rhwng 'Prydeindod' a seciwlariaeth? Ydy'r bleidlais dros y dde eithafol yn un grefyddol neu beidio?
2 yp, dydd iau 4 Awst, Pabell yr eglwysi, Eisteddfod Genedlaethol y Fenni.//
This seminar will look at the evidence about Wales and Welsh people regarding the influence or otherwise of belief in God on social attitudes and behavior. I shall discuss some key questions arising from the data, such as: is there a relationship between voting and belief in God? Is there a relationship between considering oneself to be Welsh and nominally Christian, and Between self-ascribed British identity and secularism? Is the vote for the far right a religious vote or not?
This presentation puts forward a critical assessment of reporting and media comment on responses ... more This presentation puts forward a critical assessment of reporting and media comment on responses to the UK government’s ‘Counter-Extremism Strategy’. Briefly tabulated are those questions journalists did and did not ask about the CES, which topics in the CES were covered or not and why. On the philosophical level several fundamental problems arise. Is the UK government attempting to define ‘true religion’, and should it? Representative responses from religious bodies are assessed critically. Going beyond conventional wisdom about the roots of the CES in the New Labour government’s Prevent Strategy, the academic origins of the concept of ‘extremism’, religious or not, in the social sciences, is shown here, and then its appearance in policy and legislation. The question is asked whether the CES is a new Clarendon Code for England and Wales, or whether it represents a new incarnation of an Enlightenment approach to relations between religion and the state. In conclusion the level of religious literacy in the British media on this subject is assessed, and the implications thereof for public understanding of religion/s, religious freedom and freedom of speech.
Seminar yw hwn fydd yn cyflwyno'r prif ddiwinyddion ac athronwyr sgolastic (h.y. academaidd) o'r ... more Seminar yw hwn fydd yn cyflwyno'r prif ddiwinyddion ac athronwyr sgolastic (h.y. academaidd) o'r gweldydd Celtaidd yn y Canol Oesoedd. Bydd yn dangos fod cysylltiadau rhyngddyn nhw sydd heb eu canfod na'u dadansoddi o'r blaen, ac yn dangos sut roedd y bobl yma'n rhan o brif lif deallusol y Canol Oesoedd Catholig yn Ewrop.
Rhan o gyfres seminar 'Cymru, Cristnogaeth a'r Celfydydau'. Ystafell 2.03, Adeilad John Percival (Adeilad y Dyniaethau), Colum Road, Prifysgol Caerdydd, 6 yh. 11 Chwefror 2016
Statistical evidence suggests that Wales is different from England and Scotland as regards religi... more Statistical evidence suggests that Wales is different from England and Scotland as regards religious belief, behaviour and opinion. In short, even after accepting secularisation and major cultural changes, the population as a whole is slightly more likely to hold traditional beliefs associated with Christianity. At the same time there are slightly more people who indicate that they have ‘No Religion’.
Topics: voting at recent UK General Elections; ‘British values’ (freedom of religion, etc.); Sex-selective abortion debate; Same-sex marriage debate (tied to freedom of religion); UKIP vote in Wales may be from ‘No Religion’ people, not ‘Christians’.
Presentation given to the annual conference of the Law and Religion Scholars' Network (LARSN) at the Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff University, Wales. 11th of May 2015
Ysgrif yn trafod perthynas symbolaidd Lladin a'r Gymraeg, yr angen am ddysgu Lladin er mwyn archw... more Ysgrif yn trafod perthynas symbolaidd Lladin a'r Gymraeg, yr angen am ddysgu Lladin er mwyn archwilio hanes pobl frodorol, ac yn dadlau tros ddysgu Lladin a Ffrangeg drwy'r Gymraeg fel ieithoedd rhyngwladol heddiw.
Erthygl ar gyfer Esboniadur y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol. Cyhoeddwyd yn 2017
Article for the December 2016 bulletin of Cytun (Churches Together in Wales) based on a seminar I... more Article for the December 2016 bulletin of Cytun (Churches Together in Wales) based on a seminar I gave in the churches' tent at the National Eisteddfod in Abergavenny, 4 August 2016.
Erthygl ym Mwletin Cytun, Rhagfyr 2016, yn seiliedig ar fy seminar ym mhabell yr eglwysi, Eistedd... more Erthygl ym Mwletin Cytun, Rhagfyr 2016, yn seiliedig ar fy seminar ym mhabell yr eglwysi, Eisteddfod y Fenni, 4 Awst 2016
Erthygl ar gyfer Esboniadur y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol. Cyhoeddwyd yn 2016
Erthygl ar gyfer Esboniadur y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol ar bwnc Drych Tywysogion, "genre" llenyd... more Erthygl ar gyfer Esboniadur y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol ar bwnc Drych Tywysogion, "genre" llenyddol ac athronyddol o'r cyfnod Clasurol, y Canol Oesoedd a'r Dadeni. Cyhoeddwyd yn 2016
Erthygl ar yr Aruchel (the Sublime) ar Esboniadur y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol. 2016
Dadleua'r papur hwn fod Johannes Duns Scotus (1266-1308) wedi llunio rhai agweddau o'i foeseg Cyf... more Dadleua'r papur hwn fod Johannes Duns Scotus (1266-1308) wedi llunio rhai agweddau o'i foeseg Cyfraith Naturiol mewn ffordd sy'n arddangos tebygrwydd a chyfatebiaeth i elfennau o gyfreithiau'r Cymry a chyfreithiau'r Hen Ogledd. (Mwyo fanylion i ddod maes o law.)
Diwinyddiaeth, Mar 2014
This paper proposes a new interpretation of major themes in the work of Johannes Wallensis OFM (c... more This paper proposes a new interpretation of major themes in the work of Johannes Wallensis OFM (c.1220-1285), arguing that many are best understood as stemming from his critical defence of Welsh legal and political sovereignty in parallel with his approach towards debates on the Franciscan Rule and the developing 'usus pauper' controversy.
I am currently translating this paper from Welsh into English and French.
This paper is the printed version of the lecture which I gave back in September 2013 on this topic (see 'Talks' section here).
Rowan Williams' attempt to speak for the common good and rein in the extremes of liberal individu... more Rowan Williams' attempt to speak for the common good and rein in the extremes of liberal individualism is at the core of his Hegelian co-ordination of ecclesiology and political theology. His is a managerial approach which co-ordinates his Anglican ecclesiology with a Hegelian political theology. Behind the approach of Rowan Williams lies a common liberal Anglican tradition of absorbing large tracts of Hegel's work to forge a political theology that is wedded to a liberal establishment ideology of managing not only the established Church of England and the global Anglican provinces, but also alternately co-opting and marginalising other more orthodox Christian theologies and churches. This paper aims to show how Williams' political thinking was secular from his first publication on politics, a paper on Welsh devolution based on an address given in 1979. This secular approach is rooted in a theological approach that advocates divine retreat from the world. I then analyse critically Williams' reading of Hegel in the three papers he wrote in the 1990s as he climbed the Anglican episcopal ladder. Reading Hegel enables Williams to theologise his secular post-Kantian political theory. I argue that Williams strives to read Hegel in a non-esoteric style, evading the hints towards Hegel's esoteric and pagan roots found in Gillian Rose and Andrew Shanks, to whom he is indebted for his reading of Hegel. Subsequently I show how all this has been incorporated into a managerial approach to types of theology, with an apophatic method peculiar to Williams being employed to manage more kataphatic and orthodox types. The doctrines of eschatology and creation constitute the outer poles of this method. This was the framework for Williams' discussion of the Islamic community in England and modern Palestine in his 2008 speech 'Islam in English Law'. The twin focus on England and Palestine, and on the definitions of religious community appropriated from J. N. Figgis and Gillian Rose, may account for the ambivalence towards the idea of the use of violence by the community in the speech.
Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations, Jan 1, 2010
Reinhold Niebuhr’s support for the foundation of the state of Israel is argued to be an expressio... more Reinhold Niebuhr’s support for the foundation of the state of Israel is argued to be an expression of his Christian realism, and as such is based on his ethics but not his theology. The first section assesses Niebuhr’s support for Jewish return to the Land of Israel in relation to modern protestant and Jewish support for relocation of the Promised Land back from America to British Mandate Palestine. The second section demonstrates that Niebuhr’s support for Zionism grew out of his threefold moral, political and theological realism. This meant taking into account Israel’s relation to the United States, and increasingly evidenced a national supersessionist outlook. The third section argues that this shift was undertaken via the role of the temporarily messianic nation, whereby the USA replaced Israel as a nation with a mission. In the fourth section, it is argued that the natural theology that underlies Niebuhr's ethics constitutes a 'Hebraic' turn which is ironic given that he does not ground his Zionism in the covenant with Abraham. The last section argues that Niebuhr’s support for Israel’s foundation needs to be understood within his reconstruction of natural law, along with his critique of the fusion of nationalism and religion in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As Niebuhr’s approach to Israel was based on ethics not dogmatic theology and exegesis, and as it became part of a notion of America as messianic, it failed to be passed on adequately to the mainline protestant churches.
Studies in Christian Ethics, Jan 1, 2008
KeywordS abortion; Anglo-Catholicism; fatherhood; feminism; Rowan Williams; sociology ... In a pa... more KeywordS abortion; Anglo-Catholicism; fatherhood; feminism; Rowan Williams; sociology ... In a paper published in 1989, rowan williams asserts that Christians ... Studies in Christian Ethics 21.2 (2008) 250268 doi: 10.1177/0953946808094345 © 2008 SaGe Publications, Los ...
This book argues that problems with recognizing the State of Israel lie at the heart of approache... more This book argues that problems with recognizing the State of Israel lie at the heart of approaches to nationhood and unease over nationalism in modern Protestant theology, as well as modern social theory. Three interrelated themes are explored. The first is the connection between a theologian's attitude to recognizing Israel and their approach to the providential place of nations in the divine economy. Following from this, the argument is made that theologians' handling of both modern and ancient Israel are mirrored profoundly in the question of recognition and ethical treatment of the nations to which they belong, along with neighboring nations. The third theme is how social theory, represented by certain key figures, has handled the same issues. Four major theologians are discussed: Reinhold Niebuhr, Rowan Williams, John Milbank, and Karl Barth. Alongside them are placed social theorists and scholars of religion and nationalism, including Mark Juergensmeyer, Philip Jenkins, Anthony Smith, and Adrian Hastings. In the process, debates over the relationship between theology and social theory are reconfigured in concrete terms around the challenge of recognition of the State of Israel as well as stateless nations.
Karl Barth was well-known for his criticism of German nationalism as a corrupting influence on th... more Karl Barth was well-known for his criticism of German nationalism as a corrupting influence on the German protestant churches in the Nazi era. Defining and recognizing nationhood as distinct from the state is an important though underappreciated task in Barth's theology. It flows out of his deep concern for the capacity of nationalist dogma - that every nation must have its own state - to promote warfare. The problem motivated him to make his famous break with German liberal protestant theology.
In this book, Carys Moseley traces how Barth reconceived nationhood in the light of a lifelong interest in the exegesis and preaching of the Pentecost narrative in Acts 2. She shows how his responsibilities as a pastor of the Swiss Reformed Church required preaching on this text as part of the church calendar, and thus how his defence of the inclusion of the 'filioque' clause in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed stemmed from his ministry, homiletics and implicit missiology.
The concern to deny that nations exist primordially in creation was a crucial reason for Barth's dissent from his contemporaries over the orders of creation, and his polemic against 'natural theology' was largely by rejection of the German liberal idea that the rise and fall of nations is part of the cycle of nature, supposedly reflecting divine action. Against this conceit, Barth advanced his famous doctrine of the election of Israel as part of the election of the community of the people of God. This provides the way into understanding the division of the world into nations, and the divine recognition of all nations as communities wherein people are meant to seek God.
Ydy credu mewn Duw yn dylanwadu ar agweddau pobl heddiw? Ydy credoau pobl yn effeithio ar eu hymd... more Ydy credu mewn Duw yn dylanwadu ar agweddau pobl heddiw? Ydy credoau pobl yn effeithio ar eu hymddygiad neu beidio? Oes perthynas rhwng pleidleisio a chredu yn Nuw? Ydy pobl Cymru, a'r sawl sy'n eu hystyried eu hunain yn Gymru, yn wahanol i bobl 'Brydeinig' yn hyn o beth? A oes cysylltiad rhwng 'Cymreictod' ac arddel Cristnogaeth mewn enw, a rhwng 'Prydeindod' a seciwlariaeth? Ydy'r bleidlais dros y dde eithafol yn un grefyddol neu beidio?
2 yp, dydd iau 4 Awst, Pabell yr eglwysi, Eisteddfod Genedlaethol y Fenni.//
This seminar will look at the evidence about Wales and Welsh people regarding the influence or otherwise of belief in God on social attitudes and behavior. I shall discuss some key questions arising from the data, such as: is there a relationship between voting and belief in God? Is there a relationship between considering oneself to be Welsh and nominally Christian, and Between self-ascribed British identity and secularism? Is the vote for the far right a religious vote or not?
This presentation puts forward a critical assessment of reporting and media comment on responses ... more This presentation puts forward a critical assessment of reporting and media comment on responses to the UK government’s ‘Counter-Extremism Strategy’. Briefly tabulated are those questions journalists did and did not ask about the CES, which topics in the CES were covered or not and why. On the philosophical level several fundamental problems arise. Is the UK government attempting to define ‘true religion’, and should it? Representative responses from religious bodies are assessed critically. Going beyond conventional wisdom about the roots of the CES in the New Labour government’s Prevent Strategy, the academic origins of the concept of ‘extremism’, religious or not, in the social sciences, is shown here, and then its appearance in policy and legislation. The question is asked whether the CES is a new Clarendon Code for England and Wales, or whether it represents a new incarnation of an Enlightenment approach to relations between religion and the state. In conclusion the level of religious literacy in the British media on this subject is assessed, and the implications thereof for public understanding of religion/s, religious freedom and freedom of speech.
Seminar yw hwn fydd yn cyflwyno'r prif ddiwinyddion ac athronwyr sgolastic (h.y. academaidd) o'r ... more Seminar yw hwn fydd yn cyflwyno'r prif ddiwinyddion ac athronwyr sgolastic (h.y. academaidd) o'r gweldydd Celtaidd yn y Canol Oesoedd. Bydd yn dangos fod cysylltiadau rhyngddyn nhw sydd heb eu canfod na'u dadansoddi o'r blaen, ac yn dangos sut roedd y bobl yma'n rhan o brif lif deallusol y Canol Oesoedd Catholig yn Ewrop.
Rhan o gyfres seminar 'Cymru, Cristnogaeth a'r Celfydydau'. Ystafell 2.03, Adeilad John Percival (Adeilad y Dyniaethau), Colum Road, Prifysgol Caerdydd, 6 yh. 11 Chwefror 2016
Statistical evidence suggests that Wales is different from England and Scotland as regards religi... more Statistical evidence suggests that Wales is different from England and Scotland as regards religious belief, behaviour and opinion. In short, even after accepting secularisation and major cultural changes, the population as a whole is slightly more likely to hold traditional beliefs associated with Christianity. At the same time there are slightly more people who indicate that they have ‘No Religion’.
Topics: voting at recent UK General Elections; ‘British values’ (freedom of religion, etc.); Sex-selective abortion debate; Same-sex marriage debate (tied to freedom of religion); UKIP vote in Wales may be from ‘No Religion’ people, not ‘Christians’.
Presentation given to the annual conference of the Law and Religion Scholars' Network (LARSN) at the Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff University, Wales. 11th of May 2015
Trosolwg o arolygon barn ar grefydd gan gwmniau sy'n aelodau o'r 'British Polling Council', yn da... more Trosolwg o arolygon barn ar grefydd gan gwmniau sy'n aelodau o'r 'British Polling Council', yn dangos sut mae patrymau gwahanol yng Nghymru am rai pynciau nag yng ngweddill y Deyrnas Unedig. Cyflwyniad Saesneg oedd hwn yn wreiddiol ar gyfer cynhadledd flynyddol y 'Law and Religion Studies Network' (LARSN), ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd, 11 Mai 2015.
Mae'r papur nawr ar gael yn yr adran 'Dysgu Groeg a Lladin drwy'r Gymraeg' ar y wefan hon.
Papur yw hwn a draddodwyd yng nghynhadledd undydd cyfrwng Cymraeg yr Adran Athroniaeth ym Mhrifys... more Papur yw hwn a draddodwyd yng nghynhadledd undydd cyfrwng Cymraeg yr Adran Athroniaeth ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd, ar y 9fed o Orffennaf 2014. Ar y foment mae'n mynd drwy'r broses o gael ei adolygu gan gymheiriad er mwyn ei gyhoeddi.
Rwy'n paratoi darlith ar rai o syniadau diwinyddol a gwleidyddol y Brodyr Llwyd cynnar, gan roi p... more Rwy'n paratoi darlith ar rai o syniadau diwinyddol a gwleidyddol y Brodyr Llwyd cynnar, gan roi pwyslais arbennig ar Sion o Gymru (Johannes Wallensis neu John Waleys OFM) (1230? - 1284), y diwinydd cynharaf o Gymru y gwyddom amdano,
Rwy'n dadlau fod Sion yn ffigur mwy pwysig ymhlith y Ffransisgiaid ym Mhrydain ac Ewrop na sylweddolid eisoes gan ysgolheigion ym maes hanes diwinyddiaeth ac hanes damcaniaeth wleidyddol , ac yn ei osod yng nghyd-destun diwinyddion mawr ei gyfnod, yn ogystal a'i gefnogaeth o Simon de Montfort, 6ed Iarll Caerliwelydd, ar yr adeg pan oedd Simon yn cefnogi Llywelyn Ein Llyw Olaf ac yn sefydlu Senedd cyntaf Lloegr.
Bydd y ddarlith hefyd yn holi ynglyn a pharhad rhai o syniadau athrawiaethol a gwleidyddol pwysicaf y Ffransisgiaid, a'u perthnasedd i Gymru heddiw, e.e. dadleuon am y rheswm am ddyfodiad Iesu Grist, apocalyptiaeth a hanes, a damcaniaethau Cristnogol yn cefnogi sofraniaeth werinol, a'r cytbwyso rhwng hawliau goddrychol ac hawliau gwrthrychol.
Lluniau ar Power Point am ddiwinyddion scolastic y gwledydd Celtaidd
Mae’r papur hwn yn cael ei arfarnu gan dîm golygyddol Gwerddon ar y foment. Mae’n seiliedig ar dd... more Mae’r papur hwn yn cael ei arfarnu gan dîm golygyddol Gwerddon ar y foment. Mae’n seiliedig ar ddarlith a roddais ym mis Gorffennaf 2014 i gynhadledd undydd yr Adran Athroniaeth ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd.
I am slowly working on a series of papers on the scholastic theologians/philosophers who came fro... more I am slowly working on a series of papers on the scholastic theologians/philosophers who came from the Celtic countries in the medieval and early modern period. The current plan is to turn the work into a monograph and a course for teaching, and to write it up in Welsh, English and French (and maybe Latin.)
Dangosaf yn y papur hwn fod modd darganfod dull o ddysgu Groeg Hynafol a Lladin nad sy'n rhannu'r... more Dangosaf yn y papur hwn fod modd darganfod dull o ddysgu Groeg Hynafol a Lladin nad sy'n rhannu'r agweddau trefedigaethol sydd wedi bod wrth wraidd eu dysgu drwy'r Saesneg yn y Wladwriaeth Brydeinig. Yn amlwg, dylid eu dysgu drwy'r Gymraeg. Dyna pammae angen gwerslyfrau cyfrwng Cymraeg ar eu cyfer. Rhaid mynd i afael â'r syniad o'r 'fantais Gymraeg' sy'n cael ei defnyddio ym maes addysg.
Adolygiad o gyfrol Huw L. Williams ‘Credoau’r Cymry’. Caerdydd: Prifysgol Cymru, 2016, yn rhifyn ... more Adolygiad o gyfrol Huw L. Williams ‘Credoau’r Cymry’. Caerdydd: Prifysgol Cymru, 2016, yn rhifyn LXVI (2017) o ‘Diwinyddiaeth’, tud. 84-89.
Studies in Christian Ethics, Jan 1, 2012
Studies in World Christianity, Jan 1, 2010
Studies in Christian Ethics, Jan 1, 2006
Rachel Muers, Keeping God's Silence: Towards a Theological Ethics of Communication (Malden, ... more Rachel Muers, Keeping God's Silence: Towards a Theological Ethics of Communication (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004). x + 246 pp. £19.99 (pb), ISBN 1405119004. DOI: 10.1177/0953946806071571 In this highly original and ambitious book based on her ...
Studies in Christian Ethics, Jan 1, 2010
Those who think that any worthwhile discussion of economics must emphasise what is applicable wit... more Those who think that any worthwhile discussion of economics must emphasise what is applicable within the 'public' sphere will experience methodological unease from the out-set. Cavanaugh assumes (rightly, in my view) that Christian ethics is for Christians, hence the focus upon ...
Studies in World Christianity, Jan 1, 2007
Studies in World Christianity, Jan 1, 2005
The Expository Times, Jan 1, 2009
Studies in World Christianity, Jan 1, 2003
The thesis charts the development of Karl Barth's theological understanding of nationhood from th... more The thesis charts the development of Karl Barth's theological understanding of nationhood from the inception of his career as an undergraduate to the writing of the section on nationhood in his Church Dogmatics ('Near and Distant Neighbours'). Barth is shown to distinguish nationhood from the state. Nationhood for Barth is the product of human agency working within the providence of the Trinitarian God. It is not an order of creation or nature, nor can it be grounded in the work of the Spirit. Barth's motivation for distinguishing nationhood and the state was to oppose the nationalist dogma that every nation must have its own state, a doctrine which he believed provoked warfare. Barth's understanding of the nation as the 'people' (das Volk) is similar to the concept of ethnos found in the Bible. The maintenance of the distinction between nationhood and the state as a means of countering nationalist dogma is shown to be a major factor in the development of Barth's theology.
This paper proposes a new interpretation of major themes in the work of Johannes Wallensis OFM (c... more This paper proposes a new interpretation of major themes in the work of Johannes Wallensis OFM (c.1220-1285), arguing that many are best understood as stemming from his critical defence of Welsh legal and political sovereignty in parallel with his approach towards debates on the Franciscan Rule and the developing 'usus pauper' controversy.
I shall be uploading English translations of academic articles written in Welsh which are on my p... more I shall be uploading English translations of academic articles written in Welsh which are on my page here.
Nations and Nationalism in the Theology of Karl Barth, 2013
Nations and Nationalism in the Theology of Karl Barth, 2013