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Honorary Fellow of the College), the Project has drawn together scholars of several faiths in the UK and from 'It is hard to conceive of the Project without Pamela, who was both hopeful and realistic'. throughout the world to explore the nature of love as the Ultimate Reality of the universe. Pamela was a key member of an international colloquium held in the College in November 2016, when philosophers, theologians, leaders of religious communities and social scientists came together from many countries, assisted by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation, to debate the ‘cutting-edge issues’ in the place of love in religious thought and experience. A report of the conference and some of the papers given can be found on ‘www.loveinreligion.org’. It is hard to conceive of the Project without Pamela, who was both hopeful and realistic about the outcome, writing at one point that ‘it is difficult to imagine what our contemporary global world might look like, if the Abrahamic religions actually shared – in current practice – the two love commandments and the one God who is love itself.’ Two themes about love in particular absorbed Pamela during her time with the Project, and both touched on her wider and personal concerns as a feminist philosopher of religion, especially concerned that young women venturing upon their careers would be given the respect and recognition that they deserved. The first theme was the place of love in forgiveness, and I well remember her making an impact on the selection panel for her post as Fellow in May 2001, when she offered a paper on forgiveness for a ‘demonstration’ lecture given to staff and students. In a paper published in 2016, headed ‘When Forgiveness and Justice come apart’, she argued that expecting forgiveness from a woman injuriously wounded – experiencing intimate violence – can often obstruct justice. The more, she insisted, that a woman seeks a changed relationship with her offender, the more it may become urgent to withhold forgiveness for a period during a process of ethical reparation. This argument was typical of Pamela’s bringing into a rigorous philosophical argument a desire that women be not imposed upon and made willing victims, so holding love and justice together. Her second theme was more located in her own personal situation, living with cancer with great courage. It was to find in our very human vulnerability the seeds of loving relationships. She observed that we often associate vulnerability with violence in our imagination. We either think of our ‘wound-ability’ as a state where we are simply a hapless victim of violence or something to be avoided by inflicting violence on others. Pamela was ambitious to change our ‘social imaginary’, re-imagining vulnerability by transforming ‘an exclusively dark myth of fear and violence’, into a pattern of experience which is open to mutual affection with others. Just five months before her death, Pamela was able to journey with me to a conference at the University of Leuven on the theme of ‘Relation, Vulnerability and Love’, where we together presented the aims of the Love Project, and she explained her own particular track of research, declaring that ‘Reciprocal affection in vulnerability would aim to renew our conception of love. But this affecting needs to be learnt by allowing ourselves to attend to each other.’ The conference was a moment I will long remember, when she gave her ‘attention’ to a number of former students who were also presenting there, and recalled with me her memories of being in and around Leuven as a young woman scholar, when all of life was in front of her. In the colloquium on love in November 2016, she said this in commenting on the Gospel passage where Jesus sets out love for God and neighbour: ‘If we return to the scriptural passage from Mark 12:28-31, we might find four ingredients for true neighbour-love. First, we need to show how love means both caring for and caring about the wound (vulnus) which opens us up to the possibility of mutual affection (‘your heart’). Second, we need to strive to know a one God whose love reveals the world as it actually is (‘your soul’). Third, we need to show that shared or collective knowledge in religion is a knowing whom to love as the neighbour, and how to love that person (‘your mind’). Fourth, we need to discern how we have the capacity for this love (‘your strength’).’ This was the agenda for philosophical investigation that Pamela wanted to carry through herself, but which she now leaves as a legacy to us. Professor Paul S. Fiddes is Principal Emeritus and Director of Research at Regent's Park College. He is also Director of the Project for the Study of Love in Religion. 28
STUDENT RECOGNITION Sophie Aitmehdi (Jurisprudence, 2015) Vice-President Elect of the University Law Society Peter Burke-Smith (Geography, 2014) Vice President of University Lightweight Rowing Club Kathryn Cole (History and Economics, 2013) Oxford Student Union President-Elect Kiya Evans (History and English, 2016) Producer of ‘Blavatsky's Tower’ at the Michael Pilch Studio Savannah Fishel (Philosophy and Theology, 2015) Social Secretary of the University LGBTQ+ Society Theophina Gabriel (Philosophy and Theology, 2016) Founder and Editor of Onyx magazine Jacob Greenhouse (Philosophy and Theology, 2016) Half Blue for Eton Rugby Fives Laura Hamilton (Philosophy and Theology, 2014) President of Oxford Women in Business Ella Holden (English, 2015) Art and Literature Editor of the Oxford Student Thomas Jordan (English, 2015) Editor of the ISIS Magazine Founder of the Mental Health Support Network Suzie King (English, 2014) Marketing Manager for the original musical, ‘STOP’, which appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe Philippa Lawford (English, 2016) Director of ‘Blavatsky's Tower’ at the Michael Pilch Studio David Marchington (English, 2015) Vice President of The Oxford Guild Georgia Reddington (English, 2015) Co-Director of ‘I Know You’ at the Burton Taylor Theatre Executive Make-Up Artist for several University musicals Rosie Richards (Theology and Religion, 2015) President of the Oxford Alternotives Producer of ‘Rewritten’ at the Michael Pilch Studio Ellie Siora (History, 2015) Writer and Director of ‘Rewritten’ at the Michael Pilch Studio Hebe Westcott (English, 2014) Committee and Blue for the University Netball Team Ali White (History and Politics, 2015) Co-Chair of the Oxford University Liberal Democrats Esther-Jane White (Theology, 2014) Member of the University Netball team Member of the University band, Garfunkel Hannah Wooldridge (History and Economics, 2015) Treasurer of Oxford Women in Business IN MEMORIAM Regent’s Park College Pamela Sue Anderson Edward A. Barton David Boone Arthur Francis Charles Garrett Hal Germer Marie Isaacs Alan Kreider Matthew Neale Howard Tillotson Ian Tomlinson Charles Whitworth Barrie White Greyfriars Hall Br Thomas Boyle
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