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
| Date | Seminar |
|---|---|
| 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 October | Discussion of Covenant and Calling: Towards a Theology of Same-Sex Relationships - Prof Robert Song |
| 21 October | Religion, 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 November | The shape of nineteenth century eschatology - Dr Judith Wolfe |
| 25 November | Postgraduate research hub |
Semester 2
| Date | Seminar |
|---|---|
| 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 2016 | John 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 2016 | Stories 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 2016 | A Johannine structure for a Christian theology in conversation with Islam, Prof Daniel A. Madigan |
| 23 March 2016 | Eschatology and suffering, Prof Karen Kilby |