After Nature
Preacher: Dr Jacob Sherman, Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion, Cambridge UniversityJacob Sherman is University Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. Previously, he has been assistant professor of philosophy and religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies, a visiting fellow in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, and a visiting lecturer in philosophy of religion at King's College London. He is the author of numerous journal articles, editor of The Participatory Turn: Spirituality, Mysticism, Religious Studies (SUNY Press 2008), and author of Partakers of the Divine: Contemplation and the Practice of Philosophy (Fortress Press 2014). His research largely focusses on questions of metaphysics and religion, especially the reappraisal and reinterpretation of premodern traditions within contemporary philosophy and theology. He is currently working on challenges to the modern concept of nature and its vi