Iris Murdoch and the Western Theological Imagination

Miles Leeson is Director of the Iris Murdoch Research Centre at the University of Chichester and Senior Lecturer in English Literature. He is also Visiting Research Fellow at Kingston University. Frances White is Deputy Director of the Iris Murdoch Research Centre and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Chichester.

• PART ONE: THEOLOGICANS, CHURCHES AND MYSTICS.- 1. Matthew Mills – Seeking Goodness: A Dialogue between Iris Murdoch and Peter Abelard.- 2. Anne Rowe– Iris Murdoch and Julian of Norwich.- 3. Peter Webster – Iris and the Christians: What did the British Churches make of Murdoch 1954-c1983.- 4. Frances White – Despite herself: Iris Murdoch, the reluctant Christian?.- 5. Paul Fiddes - The Theological Roots and Implications of Iris Murdoch’s Idea of the Mystical Christ.- PART TWO: THEOLOGY IN FICTION AND IN PHILOSOPHY.- 6. Miles Leeson - Iris Murdoch and Fictionalised Theology.- 7. Daniel Read - Iris Murdoch and The Book of Job.- 8. Hannah Maria Altorf – ‘The Point at which Plato starts making jokes’: The Fire and the Sun as Religious Text.- 9. Scott Moore – Forgiveness and the ‘Beautiful, Unexpected Strangeness of the World’ in Iris Murdoch.- PART THREE: OTHER ART FORMS AND MODES OF SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE.- 10. Andrew Taylor – Dispersal and Gathering in Iris Murdoch’s The Bell and Andrei Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev.- 11. Rob Hardy– ‘Seeing morethan we are supposed to’: Iris Murdoch and the Occult.