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You’re invited to Regent's 2025 Evening Public Lecture series! Join us in the chapel or tune in online to explore theology, culture, and much more with this year’s summer faculty.

To livestream this and other Evening Public Lectures, visit us at rgnt.net/live.

About the Lecture

To live in the world, we have to imagine it—to make sense of things by seeing coherent wholes in underdetermined data. Christian theology is both a way of imagining the world and a challenge to our need and capacity to imagine. It helps us bring into view both the power and the risks of our continuous interplay of finding and making a world. This lecture will encourage us to see the life of faith as one of awareness both of the unseen depth of the world and of the things that do not make sense in it, trusting in a God beyond our power of imagining.

About the Speaker

Judith Wolfe is Professor of Philosophical Theology at the University of St Andrews. Born and raised in Vienna and educated in Milwaukee, Jerusalem, and Oxford, Prof. Wolfe has previously taught at Bard College Berlin and St John’s College, Oxford. She is interested in the many ways in which theology, philosophy, literature, and art extend and challenge each other, and teaches courses in systematic theology, philosophical theology, and theology and the arts. She has written and edited books on Martin Heidegger, C.S. Lewis, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century theology; her most recent monograph, The Theological Imagination, was published by Cambridge University Press in October 2024. Prof. Wolfe is also founding editor of the Journal of Inklings Studies. Prof. Wolfe has spoken on BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time and PBS’s Closer to Truth, and at festivals, museums, and many conferences. A short documentary about her can be viewed at https://atthethreshold.com/.

Dr. Wolfe is teaching The Theological Imagination from June 9 to 13 as part of Regent’s 2025 Summer Programs.