Divinity Research Seminars

Time: Mondays, 15:00–17:00, starting 22 Jan

Location: Humanity Manse Seminar Room (G01), MS Teams

Chair: Prof. Brian Brock (b.brock@abdn.ac.uk)

The subject of the seminar will be Hans Ulrich’s Transfigured not Conformed.

Schedule

Time: Fortnightly on Wednesdays, 15:00–16:30, starting 31 Jan

Location: MS Teams

Chair: Dr Emma Percy (emma.percy@abdn.ac.uk)

Our fortnightly on-line seminars this term will look at how we might think about flourishing. They will be interspersed with two presentations from our own graduate community.

Schedule

Time: Wednesdays, 15:00–16:30, starting 31 Jan

Location: Humanity Manse Seminar Room (G01), MS Teams

Chair: Dr Katy Hockey (katherine.hockey@abdn.ac.uk)

Schedule

Time: Thursdays, 15:30–17:00, starting 25 Jan

Location: Humanity Manse Seminar Room (G01), MS Teams

Chair: Dr Daniel Pedersen (daniel.pedersen@abdn.ac.uk)

In our seminar this year we will be reading the entirety of Friedrich Schleiermacher’s dogmatics, The Christian Faith, widely regarded as one of the most important works of theology ever written. Whether one agrees or disagrees with Schleiermacher in whole or in part, it is essential reading for understanding theology thereafter and its constructive influence and promise lives on to this day. We will begin by reading roughly the first half of The Christian Faith this autumn, and then read the remainder in the spring.

Schedule

Time: Fridays, 14:00–16:00, starting 26 Jan

Location: KQG3, MS Teams

Chair: Rev. Prof. John Behr (john.behr@abdn.ac.uk)

The Historical Theology Seminar this year will be on Irenaeus of Lyons (and second-century context), focussing on a close reading of the whole of Against the Heresies and the Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching.

There will be a Teams page for this, where material will be posted. Please email John Behr (john.behr@abdn.ac.uk), copying Sophia Theodoratos (s.theodoratos.20@abdn.ac.uk), if you would like participate.

Chair: Dr Sam Newington (s.newington@abdn.ac.uk)

The Religious Studies related seminar this term is in connection with The Aberdeen Classical Association:

https://casnorthscotland.com

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact Dr Newington directly.

Time: Fridays, 14:30–16:00, starting 26 Jan

Location: Humanity Manse Seminar Room (G01), MS Teams

Chair: Dr Daniel Pedersen (daniel.pedersen@abdn.ac.uk)

For Spring 2024 we will be celebrating the publication of two new intellectual biographies of the collective work of Elizabeth (G.E.M.) Anscombe, Phillipa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch—four key figures in 20^th century Anglophone philosophy. The seminar will involve close reading, philosophical analysis, and discussion of a selection of their key works. Each week we will read the equivalent of one article (or equivalent selection from a book—see below). Any students and staff from Philosophy, and Divinity, and beyond are warmly invited to attend.

To read in advance (pick one or both): Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachel Wiseman, Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life (London: Chatto and Windus, 2022); OR Benjamin J.B. Lipscombe, The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).

To purchase or borrow in hard copy: Iris Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good (Abingdon: Routledge, 1970 [2001])

All other readings are available through the Aberdeen Library in electronic copy (to be linked or distributed).

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