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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...

"Taking time to talk: Plato's Euthydemus on the metaphysics of conversation" with Professor MM McCabe

You are invited by the Rt Revd Anne Dyer (Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney, Scottish Episcopal Church) to the Aberdeen Book Launch of Wondrously Wounded Theology, Disability, and the Body of Christ by Prof. Brian Brock.

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,...

Speaker: Mogens Lareke (CNRS, Lyon) "Spinoza and Hobbes on the Social Contract" Critics contemporary with Spinoza very quickly seized on the similarity of the contract theory outlined in chapter XVI of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (1670) with the doctrines of Hobbes in De Cive (1642) and in the Leviathan (1650). But were Spinoza’s contemporary...

What are you doing next summer? Would you like to gain work experience, network with potential future employers and develop transferable skills? The School of Divinity, History and Philosophy is hosting a workshop this semester on sourcing and securing internships. Pursue internship opportunities: learn about strategies for successful internship applications and effective...

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. 5 Nov: Systematic Theology: Profs Tom Greggs, Paul Nimmo and Phil Ziegler  

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,...