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 Simon Burton‘Realising the Heavenly Church Upon Earth: Mysticism and Apocalypticism in Basel Conciliarism’