Day: 4 June 2019

Analysis: Diarmaid MacCulloch on the Theology & Religious Studies decline

Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford, reflects on a British Academy report that theology and religious studies risk disappearing from universities ‘just at the time when we need them most’.  In an increasingly adversarial culture, graduates have an unrivalled understanding of humanity in its glorious untidy complexity.   […]