PHILOSOPHER

Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual. He is the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New York University and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana's Department of Philosophy. He primarily works on continental philosophy (particularly Hegelianism, psychoanalysis and Marxism) and political theory, as well as film criticism and theology, and author of Sublime Object of Ideology, Less Than Nothing.

RADICAL THEOLOGIAN

Rollins is a Northern Irish writer, public speaker, philosopher, producer and theologian. Drawing from various strands of continental philosophy, Rollins' early work operated broadly from within of apophatic theology, while his more recent books move toward the theory and practice of death of God theology. In these books he develops a "religionless" interpretation of Christianity called pyrotheology, which views faith as a particular way of engaging with the world rather than a set of beliefs about the world.

RADICAL THEOLOGIAN

Taylor’s work focuses on the intersections between religion, theology and culture, with a particular emphasis on the impact and interplay of contemporary digital life on religion and belief (particularly Western Christianity). He is particularly interested in religion where it is least obvious and in cultural clinamens- the behaviour and phenomena that escape our categorizing and thus provide opportunity for re-framing how we think and approach life. He works with GCAS as the Chair of the Theology department.

PSYCHOANALYTIC THEOLOGIAN

Murphy is a thinker with 15+ years of professional experience as a teacher, lecturer, and module convener, and a PhD and Post-Doctoral degree in Theology and Philosophical Theology. He is recognised as an excellent instructor of theology, ethics, spirituality, psychology and mental health, with 15+ book chapters or articles with well-known academic journals and publishers, as well as a book monograph on Lacan and John of the Cross, published with Palgrave Macmillan, focused on spiritual direction.

Kant’s transcendental turn, Schelling and Hegel’s notion of God and Religion

Philosophy, Theology, and Political-Economy in Hegel and the Marxist tradition

Nietzsche’s Death of God, and the Freudo-Lacanian traditions view on Religion

Altizer’s Gospel of Christian Atheism, from Blake to Nietzsche to 20th century theology

Žižek’s philosophy orbiting the transcendental turn, quantum physics and Christian Atheism

Rollins’s pyrotheology praxis towards an embodiment of the Church of Contradiction