“By the Word Preach’d”: Preaching, Emotion and the Anglican Tradition

Date: Saturday 30 June 2018
Time: 9.45am–2.30pm
Venue: St John’s Cathedral, 373 Ann St, Brisbane
Enquiries: uqche@uq.edu.au or phone: (07) 3443 2402.
Registration: Free. Free. All welcome. Includes lunch. RSVP to Lisa Clarke, advising any dietary requirements, by Tuesday 26 June: lclarke@stjohnscathedral.com.au, or click on the link below:

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This day of talks and readings will explore the ways in which preachers have appealed to the emotions of their listeners across the ages. After a reading of a sermon by the seventeenth-century preacher and poet John Donne, the day will include a lecture on sermons and emotions by Rev. Dr Erica Longfellow (New College, Oxford), and a roundtable discussion focusing on religious language and the emotions, past and present. The lecture and roundtable will engage both with Donne’s sermon and the Book of Common Prayer.

Keynote speaker

Rev. Dr Erica Longfellow (Chaplain and Dean of Divinity, New College, Oxford)

Roundtable speakers

• Rev. Dr Erica Longfellow (Chaplain and Dean of Divinity, New College, University of Oxford) 
• The Very Rev’d Dr Peter Catt (Dean, St John’s Anglican Cathedral, Brisbane)
• The Right Rev’d Dr Jonathan Holland (Principal, St Francis College, Southern Queensland)
• Dr Jennifer Clement (Senior Lecturer in Literature, The University of Queensland)

Presented by the UQ node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions and St John's Cathedral, Brisbane.

Image: Late seventeenth-century copy of John Donne (1616), by Isaac Oliver. National Portrait Gallery, London.