Thursday, January 20, 2011

House Lecture - Canon Andrew Shanks



Revd Canon Andrew Shanks will give a House Lecture on Hegel and religious Faith.
Couratin Room, Thursday 3rd February at 4.30pm. All Welcome.

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Andrew Shanks is the Canon Theologian, in charge of the Cathedral’s educational programme. He has been at Manchester Cathedral since 2004. Previously he worked as a parish priest in Leeds, an inner city parish and a housing estate, and in rural North Yorkshire; and as an academic theologian at the universities of Lancaster and Leeds.

He has also lived and worked in Ethiopia and in Upper Egypt. His published books include Hegel’s Political Theology (1991), Civil Society, Civil Religion (1995), God and Modernity (2000), “What Is Truth?” Towards a Theological Poetics (2001), Faith in Honesty (2005), The Other Calling (2007), Against Innocence: Gillian Rose’s Reception and Gift of Faith (2008). He is married to Dian Leppington, who is also a priest.

The Revd Canon Andrew Shanks: canon.shanks@manchestercathedral.org
http://www.manchestercathedral.org/whos-who/cathedral-chapter