The Christian invention of time

The Christian invention of time

The Christian invention of time

event Saturday, September 25, 2021 schedule 6.30pm - 7.20pm BST
Booking closed
Booking closed
event Saturday, September 25, 2021 schedule 6.30pm - 7.20pm BST
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Open to: 
Alumni and guests
Theme: 
Art and culture, Humanities

This session looks at the first great revolution in thinking about and experiencing time: how we inhabit time was fundamentally altered by the gradual development of Christianity in the Roman Empire. This transformation changed the Greek and Roman notions and practices of temporality, and gave us not just the week, but new ways to understand waiting, suddenness, eternity, simultaneity and so forth. The session will explore some of the ways that our world is still ordered by this revolution. 

The Christian Invention of Time

Speakers

Professor Simon Goldhill (King's 1975 and Fellow of King's)

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Simon Goldhill is Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge and Foreign Secretary of the British Academy. His books have been translated into ten languages and won three international prizes. He has lectured and broadcast all over the world. 

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