Theology and Ethics 2015

Wednesdays, 11:10am - 12:50pm, Martin Hall

The seminars are for postgraduates and staff, and others are most welcome. For enquiries, please contact Dr David Grumett (david.grumett@ed.ac.uk)

Semester 1

DateSeminar
30 September  How God suffers: Bonhoeffer, Moltmann and theological language -  Dr Michael Mawson
7 October  Starting with religious life: spirituality, phenomenology, and the future of Christianity - Prof George Pattison
14 OctoberDiscussion of Covenant and Calling: Towards a Theology of Same-Sex Relationships - Prof Robert Song
21 OctoberReligion, story and material culture - School seminar 4pm
4 November A Mencian question to Augustine: is my self-reflection your contemplation? - Revd JunSoo Park Encountering the Other in Rudolf Otto and Emmanuel Levinas - Dr Teodor G. Borz
11 November  Karl Barth, Peter Ochs and supersessionism - Dr Susannah Ticciati
 11 NovemberThe shape of nineteenth century eschatology - Dr Judith Wolfe
25 NovemberPostgraduate research hub

Semester 2

DateSeminar
13 January 2016

Towards an ethics of mess: childhood, natality and the sacralization

of the everyday, Dr Anna Strhan

20 January 2016

Putting hell first: cruelty, historicism and the missing moral theology,

Dr John Perry

27 January 2016John McIntyre: imagination and theology, Evan Graber
3 February 2016

Against the Manichees: migration, exclusion and the shaping of the

theo-political imagination, Dr Anna Rowlands

10 February 2016Stories from the margins ** School seminar**
2 March 2016(jointly with the Religious Studies Research Seminar and the World Christianity Research Seminar) Roman Catholic–Buddhist dual belonging: imagining the impossible?,  Prof Gavin D’Costa
8 March 2016(jointly with the World Christianity Research Seminar) How can the African Church be more African and more universal?, Rt Revd Dr Graham Kings
16 March 2016A Johannine structure for a Christian theology in conversation with Islam, Prof Daniel A. Madigan
23 March 2016Eschatology and suffering, Prof Karen Kilby