The Durham Grosseteste Project involves looking at the works of Bishop Grosseteste and trying to understand his ideas in the light of the conceptual background of an ordered universe. Grosseteste understood himself to be playing a role in a divinely ordered hierarchy of creatures. He was within a Grand Plan, a teleologically ordered whole whoseContinue reading “Do we live in a universe at all: some thoughts from Mark Robson”
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Creation from Nothing: Mark Robson’s ‘Ontology and Providence in Creation’
Mark Robson’s new book provides a critical perspective on philosophical attitudes to the notion of creation from nothing. Mark is one of the teachers within the Durham Grosseteste Project, based at St Robert of Newminster school. Creation from nothing , ex nihilo, underpins Grosseteste’s fundamental understanding of the created world, and this discussion demonstrates theContinue reading “Creation from Nothing: Mark Robson’s ‘Ontology and Providence in Creation’”
Workshop 2: Medieval Science and the Modern Curriculum: Part 3c ADVANCED SECONDARY
Our third and final group, took what appeared to be a slightly different approach to the other two, but one that ended up with a great deal of continuity with the others. Led by Per, the group involved Andrew Powney from Ampleforth College, Steven Burdon from St Bede’s Lanchester, and Mark Robson from St RobertContinue reading “Workshop 2: Medieval Science and the Modern Curriculum: Part 3c ADVANCED SECONDARY”