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 2025

Date Speaker/eventTopic
22 September 

Kennedy-Wright Panel Discussion: ‘Women and the Reception of the Council of Nicaea’ with Dr Sara Parvis, Professor Rachel Muers and Dr Belinda Washington. Chaired by Professor Lucy Grig. 

*Sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Christian Origins*

6 OctoberDr James Cook‘Re-evaluating the “Carver Choirbook”: New contexts for sixteenth-century sacred song in Scotland'.
Tuesday 14 October Joint PhD Seminar with Centre for Study of World Christianity Alison Zilversmit, ‘Navigating “Tight Corners” of Christian Mission in Colonial Zimbabwe: Charles Mzingeli and the 1945 Land Apportionment Amendment’ and Fr Kevin Douglas, 'Herbert McCabe (1926-2001), Language and the Eucharist'.
3 NovemberRev Dr Matt Baines‘The History and Future of Theological Aesthetics’
17 NovemberDr Rebekah Lamb

‘John Henry Newman on the Ends of Art’

Joint with the Scottish Network for Religion and Literature