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Liverpool Hope University will award five honorary degrees during this year’s Summer Graduation with an emphasis on honouring those who have worked to support education and religion.
Mr E Rex Makin and Sister Cyril Mooney, IBVM will be awarded Doctorates of Humane Letters. Professor Andrew F Walls, Professor Lamin Sanneh and Dame Mary Tanner will be awarded Doctorates of Divinity.
Professor Pillay, Vice-Chancellor at Liverpool Hope University, said: “It is with respect and pleasure that we honour these great people who have made such important contributions in several parts of the world.
“The efforts of all of the recipients of our honorary degrees in academic research, philanthropy and humanitarian work is an example to us all and we are delighted to bestow these honours on them along with our other graduates this Summer.”
The honorary degrees will be presented during the Summer Graduations at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral on Tuesday 17th to Thursday 19th July.
Mr E Rex Makin
Mr Makin studied law at the University of Liverpool, gaining his LLB in 1945 and LLM in 1947. By 1949, Mr Makin had set up his own solicitors firm, E. Rex Makin and Co, in Liverpool city centre and over the years he has been involved in some of the city’s most high profile cases, the first of which was the case known as the Murder at Knowsley Hall, when at the age of 29, Mr Makin represented Harold Winstanley who was accused of murder. He has also handled such high-profile cases as Hillsborough and Heysel and represented the parents of the Walton sextuplets when their six daughters were born.
He is a great supporter of the arts and education, particularly in Liverpool and has been on the board for St George’s Hall. He was given the Freedom of the City of Liverpool in 2003.
He was also awarded a lifetime achievement award from the Law Society in November 2009, to mark 60 years of service in the profession.
Mr Makin writes a weekly column in the Liverpool Echo, which has appeared in the newspaper’s Friday afternoon edition every week since November 1993 – making him the newspaper’s longest serving columnist.
Mr Makin said: “It is wonderful to be selected for this mark of recognition for what I have tried to do for my city and its learning establishments. I have thoroughly enjoyed watching Liverpool Hope University mature and blossom over the years.”
Professor Andrew F Walls
Andrew Walls is a graduate of the Universities of Oxford and Aberdeen. He began service in West Africa in 1957, working at Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone, and at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he was Head of the Department of Religion. For many years he was Professor of Religious Studies and Riddoch Lecturer in Comparative Religion at the University of Aberdeen, before becoming founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World at the University of Edinburgh. He has lectured in all six continents, and been Visiting Professor of World Christianity at Yale and at Harvard Universities.
He is an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, a past President of the British Association for the Study of Religions, a past General Secretary of the International Association of Mission Studies, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. He has published widely in Christian history, World Christianity and the history of religions; his best-known publications include The Missionary Movement in Christian History (Orbis 1996) and The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History (Orbis 2002). He is General Editor of the Methodist Missionary History Project.
On receiving the honorary degree, Professor Walls said: “I am deeply moved such an honour from a university that I admire so much for its vision and achievements.”
Sister Cyril Mooney, IBVM
Sister Cyril Mooney is an internationally-recognised educational innovator. Born in Bray, on Ireland’s east coast, she joined the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Loreto) in 1956 and began her pioneering work in India the following year.
Sister Cyril began the Child-to-Child Outreach Programmes in 1964 going out with college and school students each Saturday into the surrounding villages to teach, and sending the students each evening to slums in the city to work with children not able to attend school. As part of Inter College’s work towards social justice, Sister Cyril was also involved in working to free domestic staff from professional money lenders.
Sister Cyril is responsible for the creation of a system of Value Education, which has been introduced in many schools all over India, and she has developed a new course on Human Rights Education, which is being introduced in about 50 government and other secondary schools in West Bengal. It is estimated that through Sister Cyril’s work more than 450,000 Indian girls and women have gained access to education.
Sister Mooney commented on her honorary degree: “I feel very honoured to be invited to receive a Doctorate from Liverpool Hope University. I receive this honour for my staff of Loreto Sealdah, who have enjoyed educating children from all backgrounds but especially those from the streets and slums of Kolkata.”
Dame Mary Tanner
Dame Mary Tanner served on the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches from 1975, becoming a Vice Moderator in 1986 and Moderator of the Commission in 1991, chairing the Fifth World Conference on Faith and Order in Santiago de Compostela in 1993. She is currently the President for Europe of the World Council of Churches.
From 1982-1991 she was a member of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission and the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission on Unity and Mission, as well as a member of the Special Commission on Orthodox Participation in the World Council of Churches. She served as Co-secretary of the Meissen Conversations with the Evangelical Church in Germany, the Porvoo Conversations with the Nordic and Baltic Lutheran churches and the Reuilly Conversations with the French Lutheran and Reformed churches.
Within the Church of England and the Anglican Communion Mary Tanner was a member of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Commission on Women and the Episcopate, the International Theological and Doctrinal Commission and the Windsor Continuation Group. She was a consultant to the ecumenical sections of the 1988 and 1998 Lambeth Conferences and acted as Ecumenical Dean for the Archbishop of Canterbury at the 2008 Conference.
Dame Mary Tanner said: “As President for Europe of the World Council of Churches, I am especially honoured and delighted to be receiving an honorary doctorate from Liverpool Hope University, the only ecumenical University in Europe. I see it as a sign of the University’s commitment to reconciliation and unity of the Church and the world.”
Professor Lamin Sanneh
Lamin Sanneh was educated on four continents. He earned degrees in history and Islamic studies and has taught in several Universities, including the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and Harvard, before joining the staff at Yale in 1989.
He is the D. Willis James Professor of World Christianity at the Yale Divinity School, Professor of History and Professor of International and Area Studies at Yale University. He is a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, an Honorary Research Professor at the School of Oriental & African Studies in the University of London, and the recipient of an honorary doctorate at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Professor Lamin Sanneh was a founding member of C100 of the World Economic Forum.
He was appointed by John Paul II to serve on the Pontifical Commission of the Historical Science at the Vatican and by Pope Benedict XVI to the Pontifical Commission on Religious Relations with Muslims.
He is the author of over two hundred articles in scholarly journals and of more than a dozen books on Islam and Christianity. He is book series editor of the new Oxford Studies in World Christianity, and the author of a forthcoming book, Beyond Jihad: Islam and Society in West Africa to be published by Harvard University Press.
Professor Lamin Sanneh said: “I feel humbled by the privilege of the honour of the award, and by the knowledge of the great tradition of this institution in its commitment to the search for truth and service to one another.”
