Event Archive

In 2019/20 the Seminar starts the first of two years of exploration of recent philosophical interpretations of the Apostle Paul in relation to questions of truth, knowledge and politics. This year will consider works by Alain Badiou and Jacob Taubes. In 2020/20, we will continue reading of works by Stanislas...

MA Theology and Religious Studies, Bachelor of Theology, and Bachelor of Divinity students are warmly invited to the following meetings that will be held in the Chaplaincy, on Tuesdays, from 10.00-11.30am. 19 Nov: Inter-disciplinary Colloquy  

In the first half-session of 2019/20, the Theological Ethics research seminar will focus on political theology and the Christian tradition. We will read several important historical texts in the tradition of Christian political thought, as well as Oliver O’Donovan’s The Desire of the Nations: Rediscovering the Roots of Political Theology....

In this First Half-Session of 2019/20 the seminar will read and discuss the first volume of Karl Barth’s account of the doctrine of reconciliation as found in his Church Dogmatics, IV/1, The Doctrine of Reconciliation (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1958) [§§57-63]. Both German and English versions of the volume can be...

Over the autumn term the Classics & Patristics Reading Group will be reading and translating the Latin text of some of the stories in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, starting with that of Daedalus and Icarus (Metamorphoses, Book VIII, lines 183-235).  The group will meet on Thursdays, 1.00-2.00 p.m.,with the first two meetings,...

The Practical Theology Research Seminar will run fortnightly on Thursdays, from 10am-12pm (beginning 3rd October) in HMG01, Humanity Manse. Our text is Courtney Goto’s Taking on Practical Theology (2018). Professor Goto is currently of Boston University, and this ground-breaking work has attracted a lot of attention in the field recently. While...

"'Pronounced by Mr Byres to be an undoubted Raffaelle': James Byres as Artist, Expert and Dealer", William Paton (History of Art, Aberdeen)

Speaker: James Miller (Nottingham) 

MA Theology and Religious Studies, Bachelor of Theology, and Bachelor of Divinity students are warmly invited to the following meetings that will be held in the Chaplaincy, on Tuesdays, from 10.00-11.30am. 12 Nov: Study Skills 3: Dr Sam Newington  

In the first half-session of 2019/20, the Theological Ethics research seminar will focus on political theology and the Christian tradition. We will read several important historical texts in the tradition of Christian political thought, as well as Oliver O’Donovan’s The Desire of the Nations: Rediscovering the Roots of Political Theology....