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2020
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Scandinavian Studies Seminar
-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...
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Practical Theology Online Research Seminar
-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...
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New Testament Greek Reading Group
-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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RIISS Seminar Series 2020
-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’
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Faculty and Postgraduate Research Seminar in Philosophy of Religion
-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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Divinity Joint Research Seminar
-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
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New Testament Greek Reading Group
-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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RIISS Seminar Series 2020
-Gerry Carruthers (University of Glasgow): ‘Kirk and Nation in Robert Burns’
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Scandinavian Studies Seminar
-Prof Lesley Abrams (Balliol College, Oxford) The Religious Life of Viking Armies