History of Christianity

Mondays, 4:10pm, in the Martin Hall unless otherwise stated

All welcome. For enquiries, please contact Dr Felicity Loughlin: f.loughlin@ed.ac.uk

Semester 1: Autumn 2026

Date	Speaker/event	Topic
5, 7 and 8 October	Rev Dr Jooseop Keum (Yonsei University)	Cunningham Lectures ‘What Does It Mean to Be Human? Slavery, Artificial Intelligence, Creation, and Mission.’ Register
19 October Online	Professor Timothy Larsen (Wheaton College/Edinburgh)	“A Pioneering Doctor of the Church: The Education and Ministry of the Theologian and Anglican Nun Evelyn Frost, PhD / Dame Raphael, OSB (1903-1981)"
2 November	Dr Nat Cutter (Melbourne/IASH)	"Exiles, Expatriates, Enslaved, and Enslavers: English-Speakers and Biblical Theology in the Seventeenth-Century Maghreb"
16 November	Professor David W. Bebbington (Stirling)	Book Launch Denominations: A Cultural History of Anglo-American Christianity (Baylor University Press, 2026). With discussion from Eileen Bebbington, Professor Thomas Kidd (Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) and Professor Emma MacLeod (Stirling). Joint Seminar with Theology & Ethics
Wednesday 25 November 12-1:15pm	Dr Charles F. Briggs (Vermont/IASH)	Network for the Study of the Long Reformation: Lunchtime Seminar "Roger Bacon OFM and John of Wales OFM, Fathers of Renaissance Humanism (aliter The Perils of Searching for Founders)"
30 November	Dr Simon Buck (Edinburgh)	"The Scottish Episcopal Church and Atlantic Slavery: Recovering a History of Entanglement" Joint Seminar with Theology & Ethics

Semester 2: Spring 2027

Date	Speaker/event	Topic
28 January	Professor Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge)	2nd Annual Cheyne Memorial Lecture ‘The Church in the House: Ecclesiastical History, Social History, and the Long Reformation'. Hosted by the Network for the Study of the Long Reformation
8 February	Professor Brian Stanley (Edinburgh)	"The Missionary Lexicon: The Changing Vocabulary of British Protestant Expansion from the 17th Century to the Victorian Age" Joint Seminar with the Centre for the Study of World Christianity
1 March		Network for the Study of the Long Reformation: Lunchtime Seminar Details TBC
15 March	David Truschel (Edinburgh)	"The Empire at the End of the World: the Holy Roman Empire and Daniel's Four Monarchies in Luther and Melanchthon"
29 March	Dr Sara Parvis (Edinburgh)	Book Launch Constantinople 381: The Emergence of an Ecumenical Council (Forthcoming: Cambridge University Press, 2026)

This article was published on Tuesday 19 March 2024