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Dr Hannah Burrows (Aberdeen) Showered with Praise: Weatherscapes in Late Tenth-Century Skaldic Verse

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Speaker: Michael Beaney (Humboldt University)

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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...

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A series of research lectures in the spring semester on Wednesday mornings in the Divinity Library. This Seminar will profile the work of our post-doctoral research fellows in Divinity. ‘The Idealist View of Divine Action in Nature’ :: Dr Edward Epsen  

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During the spring term we will be reading a selection of texts from the undisputed letters of Paul. The schedule of readings is designed to give attendees exposure to several passages central to descriptions of the Apostle Paul’s thought (including his view of the sacraments) and to reconstructions of the...

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Catherine Cox (University College Dublin): ‘“Tending to unsettle the Belief of a Catholic Prisoner”: Caplains, Prison Regimes, and the Mind in Mid Nineteenth-Century Ireland’

Marko Kerr: “Wartime propaganda collaboration between the SS and the Associated Press”

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Speaker: Kerstin Andermann (Technical University Dresden/Luneburg University)

During the spring term we will be reading a selection of texts from the undisputed letters of Paul. The schedule of readings is designed to give attendees exposure to several passages central to descriptions of the Apostle Paul’s thought (including his view of the sacraments) and to reconstructions of the...

Jane Rendall (University of York): ‘Correspondence and Community: Maria Edgeworth's Scottish Friends'

A series of research lectures in the spring semester on Wednesday mornings in the Divinity Library. This Seminar will profile the work of our post-doctoral research fellows in Divinity. ‘A Legacy of Misunderstanding: Spinoza’s Doctrine of God and the Charge of Pantheism in Modern Theology’ :: Dr Daniel Pedersen  

During the spring term we will be reading a selection of texts from the undisputed letters of Paul. The schedule of readings is designed to give attendees exposure to several passages central to descriptions of the Apostle Paul’s thought (including his view of the sacraments) and to reconstructions of the...

Tom Barlett (University of Aberdeen): ‘1798 Rebellion: Three contexts and a possible solution’

Professor David Ford: "The Gospel of John as Theological Challenge Now"

This term our text will be Saving Face: Enfacement, Shame, Theology, by Stephen Pattison (2013). Faces our all around us and are a significant theme in the Bible, think about the ‘face of God.’ Facebook is sometimes rather Fakebook, and shame is seen as ‘losing one’s face.’ Many of us...

Dr Triin Laidoner ‘Wetting’ the Mothers’ Mounds in Egils saga Skallagrímssonar? A Study of kumbla brjótr in Egill’s lausavísa (no. 4) Abstract: Dísir are accepted by many scholars to represent dead foremothers who were widely known and celebrated in Scandinavia. It is therefore not unreasonable to assume that the activities revolving around them were at least initially...

During the spring term we will be reading a selection of texts from the undisputed letters of Paul. The schedule of readings is designed to give attendees exposure to several passages central to descriptions of the Apostle Paul’s thought (including his view of the sacraments) and to reconstructions of the...

Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick (Queen’s University Belfast and Ulster University): ‘There was no harm about her if she were not married’: Bad Bridget and deviant Irish motherhood in North America, 1838-1918’

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...

A series of research lectures in the spring semester on Wednesday mornings in the Divinity Library. This Seminar will profile the work of our post-doctoral research fellows in Divinity. ‘“Body theodicy”: Theological complicity in the bodily trauma of women’ :: Dr Katie Cross  

During the spring term we will be reading a selection of texts from the undisputed letters of Paul. The schedule of readings is designed to give attendees exposure to several passages central to descriptions of the Apostle Paul’s thought (including his view of the sacraments) and to reconstructions of the...

Gerry Carruthers (University of Glasgow): ‘Kirk and Nation in Robert Burns’

Prof Lesley Abrams (Balliol College, Oxford) The Religious Life of Viking Armies

During the spring term we will be reading a selection of texts from the undisputed letters of Paul. The schedule of readings is designed to give attendees exposure to several passages central to descriptions of the Apostle Paul’s thought (including his view of the sacraments) and to reconstructions of the...

Speaker: Bradford Bow (Aberdeen)

Calling all Divinity, History, History of Art and Philosophy students at Level 3... Have you already secured, or are you planning to secure an internship, work placement or volunteering position over the summer? Would you like to receive academic credit for completing your summer opportunity? There is a short session on...

A series of research lectures in the spring semester on Wednesday mornings in the Divinity Library. This Seminar will profile the work of our post-doctoral research fellows in Divinity. ‘Debating forgiveness after conflict: Colombian conflict survivors, Matthew 18:21-35, and philosophical critics’ :: Dr Rob Heimburger

During the spring term we will be reading a selection of texts from the undisputed letters of Paul. The schedule of readings is designed to give attendees exposure to several passages central to descriptions of the Apostle Paul’s thought (including his view of the sacraments) and to reconstructions of the...

Samantha Walton (Bath Spa University): 'The Living World: Nan Shepherd and Environmental Thought'

Chapter Workshop: Solveig

Speaker: Giovanna Colombetti (Exeter)

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...

A series of research lectures in the spring semester on Wednesday mornings in the Divinity Library. This Seminar will profile the work of our post-doctoral research fellows in Divinity. ‘Pneuma and Descent according to Paul’ :: Dr J Thomas Hewitt

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

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....

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,...

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....

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. 29 Oct: Church History: Dr Marie-Luise Ehrenschwendtner and Rev Dr Ken Jeffrey  

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...

We are pleased to welcome Dr Tom Birkett (University College Cork) to talk on 'Filling the Gaps? Approaches to Retelling the Myths of the Masterbuilder and Thor’s Journey to Geirrøðargarðr'. The talk will take place in 50/52 College Bounds, room CB009, at 4pm. For those new to the seminar series,...

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: Franz Berto (University of St Andrews)

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. 22 Oct: Study Skills 2: 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....

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...

"Trailblazing Women Connoisseurs in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain: Art and Reinventing the Past through the Travelling Gaze", Professor Juliet Simpson, University of Coventry

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. 15 Oct: New Testament and Greek: Prof Grant Macaskill and 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....

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,...

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. 8 Oct: Old Testament and Hebrew Bible: Prof Joachim Schaper and Dr Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer  

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...

Speaker: Aidan McGlynn (Edinburgh) Pornography and Objectification Reconsidered A familiar feminist criticism of so-called “mainstream” pornography is that it objectifies women, but it’s not clear how we should interpret this claim. This makes it hard to know whether we should endorse the criticism, or what kind of response it calls for. In this...

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. 1 Oct: Study Skills 1: 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....

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,...

Aaron Thom (Aberdeen): "Casting Light on Cavarozzi: One of Caravaggio's Finest Followers"

Speaker: Gregg Caruso (SUNY Corning)

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. 24 Sept: Practical Theology: Dr Katie Cross and Dr Leon van Ommen  

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,...

This conference is hosted by the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law.   For more information, please visit the conference website.

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. 17 Sept: Christian Ethics: Dr Mike Laffin

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...

For the first session of the Scandinavian Studies Seminar Series for 2019-20, on Thursday 12 September, we are pleased to welcome Dr Caitlin Ellis (Oxford) to talk on 'Poets, Rulers, Mercenaries: Orkney, Dublin and their Networks'. The talk will take place in 50/52 College Bounds, room CB009, at 4pm. For...

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,...