The Centre for Catholic Studies and the Michael Ramsey Centre for Anglican Studies welcomed Fr Hans Boersma to give the Richardson Lecture for 2023, with a talk entitled "Creation as Love".

Fr. Hans Boersma holds the St. Benedict Servants of Christ Chair in Ascetical Theology at Nashotah House Theological Seminary in Wisconsin.

His latest book is entitled Pierced by Love: Divine Reading with the Christian Tradition (Lexham Press, 2023).

His other books include Five Things Theologians Wish Biblical Scholars Knew (IVP Academic, 2021); Seeing God (Eerdmans, 2018); and Heavenly Participation (Eerdmans, 2011).

His main theological interest is the retrieval of the sacramental ontology of the Great Tradition of the church.

Fr. Boersma is an ordained priest within the Anglican Church in North America.

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