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Mar 09
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The Oxford Summer School will be held in one of the oldest colleges of Oxford University - The Queen's College.


This striking Oxford College is situated in the heart of the city on one of Oxford's oldest roads - the High. Originally named the Hall of the Queen's Scholars at Oxford, the college is the sixth oldest and founded in 1341 by Robert de Eglesfield, a chaplain in the household of Queen Philippa, who named it in her honour.

Around 1700 the controversial decision was made to rebuild the medieval college entirely. The famous architect Nicholas Hawksmoor transformed the college into the Baroque style and the Front Quad has been called the grandest piece of classical architecture in Oxford. The college also boasts one of the finest libraries in England and a magnificent chapel that has remained largely untouched since it was consecrated by the Archbishop of York in 1719.

The college's most notable Christian student was undoubtedly John Wycliffe, the church reformer, who studied here in the fourteenth century. Wycliffe was one of the forerunners to the reformation and was famous for translating the Bible into English.
Oxford - the location for our Summer School - hardly needs an introduction.
Oxford - Radcliffe CameraOxford University is the oldest university in the English-speaking world and is regarded as one of the world's leading academic institutions. Its roots trace back to at least the eleventh century and it became the epicenter of academia in England after scholars settled there following the expulsion of foreigners from the University of Paris in 1167.

Throughout its history, the University has produced gifted men and women in every sphere of human endeavour. These include six Kings, forty-five UK Prime Ministers, six current holders of the Order of Merit, twelve Roman Catholic saints, eighty-six Archbishops and eighteen Cardinals.

As a major centre of learning the city has also witnessed its fair share of religious controversy. In the fourteenth century John Wycliffe suffered the wrath of the Pope for arguing that the Bible should be translated into the vernacular. Two centuries later, bishops Cranmer, Latimer and Ridley were all tried and burned at the stake in Oxford for being protestant. John and Charles Wesley worshipped here and endured the hostility of the University authorities for their weekly prayer meetings, as did George Whitefield following his conversion as a student at the University. Passions again ran high in 1860, when the University Museum housed the famous debate between Thomas Huxley and Bishop Wilberforce on Darwin's The Origin of Species. The religious debate continues to rage today with a number of the world's leading atheists and Christian scholars being based in the city.
 
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