Event Archive

Select Wednesdays, 3:30–4:45pm (UK Time), MS Teams 27 January Prof. John Collins (Yale University) “Reflections on Apocalyptic and Apocalypticism 40 Years on from Semeia 14” 10 February Rachel Danley (University of Aberdeen) “Reworking Spatial Metaphors of Temple in Second Temple Judaism” Larissa Rosendale (University of Aberdeen) “Characterisation, Cosmology and Crystals: Gemstones in the...

Wednesday Jan 27th, 3-4.30pm.  Sarah Broadie, St Andrews ‘Virtue and the non-moral goods: an ancient perspective’  Abstract to follow.  For information, contact Federico Luzzi: f.luzzi@abdn.ac.uk

The Theological Ethics Research Seminar for this term is "A Troubled Inheritance: Desire, Power and Theology Abused". The seminar will ask if—or how—we should read the works of a theologian tainted by moral failure, and will focus on the sexual scandals associated with Karl Barth, John Howard Yoder and Jean Vanier. This...

Our seminar text is The Dangers of Christian Practice: On Wayward Gifts, Characteristic Damage, and Sin by Lauren Winner (Yale University Press, 2018). The text is available through Primo here. Seminars will be held on alternate Wednesdays, from 4.00-6.00pm UK time. As with last term, all sessions will take place online on...

Interested in a PhD in Divinity at Aberdeen? Join several of our staff for an information session and Q&A on Tuesday, 19 January, 4:30–5:30p (UK Time). Register here.

Eleanore Neumann: Maria Graham, and her Landscapes Following the 1822 Chilean Earthquake

Virtual Veronese: Immersive Storytelling at the National Gallery

Centre for Global Security and Governance

In this somewhat unusual season, the seminar will run as a concise discussion of working papers circulated in advance by faculty and research students in the department. Papers will be made available roughly one week before each session. Sessions themselves will take place in the Divinity Library for those able...

Seminar text: Ghost Ship, A.D.A. France-Williams All welcome. All Practical Theology PhD students, (on-campus and distance) are expected to attend seminars regularly. Please see attached flyer for seminar dates and more information.