Mondays, 4.10-5.30 Althaus-Reid Room (formerly 1.07), New College (unless otherwise indicated) Everyone is warmly invited to attend the History of Christianity seminars. Semester 2 - 2018 22 Jan 2018 Professor Stewart J. Brown, University of Edinburgh ‘W. T. Stead and the “Maiden Tribute”: Sex, Power and Religion in Late Victorian London’ 29 Jan 2018 Dr Paul Parvis, University of Edinburgh ‘Rabbula and Ibas: odium theologicum in fifth-century Syria’ 6th Feb 2018 (Joint with CSWC seminar) Dr Emma Wild-Wood, University of Edinburgh ‘Where does the wisdom of the white man come in? The Interpretations, Problems and Possibilities of Missionary Sources in the History of Christianity in Africa’ 12 Feb 2018 Dr Jon Balserak, University of Bristol ‘Lies and Simulation in Geneva’s Efforts to Reform France, 1533-1563’ 19 Feb 2018 No seminar (Flexible Learning week) 26 Feb 2018 Russell Newton, University of Edinburgh ‘Godly Types: William Guild and Exegesis in Early Modern Scotland’ 5 Mar 2018 Dr Kathryn Westbrook, University of Edinburgh ‘Slandered and Silenced: the Widows of Early Christianity’ 12 Mar 2018 Lauren Murdoch, University of Edinburgh ‘Painted Christianity? Exploring some Scottish painted wooden ceilings of the early modern period’ 19 Mar 2018 Professor Anne Taves, University of California at Santa Barbara ‘After William James: Revisiting Mystical Experiences in the Study of Religions’ 26 Mar 2018 Dr Laura Mair, University of Edinburgh Title to be confirmed Semester 1 (September - December 2017) 18th Sept 2018 Social- meeting of students and staff who teach and study the History of Christianity 25thSept 2018 Joshua Bruce, University of Edinburgh: When Schism Became Heresy: A Juridical Approach to the Problem of Coercion in Augustine 2nd Oct 2018 Dr Simon Burton, John Laing Senior Lecturer in Reformation History, University of Edinburgh Consultatio Catholica: Method and Reform in the Comenian Circle 9th Oct 2018 Kennedy Wright Lecture (Joint with Centre for the Study of Christian Origins) Professor Gillian Clark, Professor Emerita of the University of Bristol. ‘All were together’: Augustine on Christian Origins 16th Oct 2018 Professor Jeffrey Cox, University of Iowa Towards Eliminating the Concept of Secularization 23rd Oct 2018 School-wide Croall Lectures: Professor Werner Jeanrond, Master of St Benet's, Oxford Lectures on 23rd, 24th, 25th October. All at 5pm in the Martin Hall Hope: Reasons to Hope, Memory and Hope, Hope and Europe’s Future 30th Oct 2018 Professor Emerita Jane Dawson, University of Edinburgh Scotland, Ireland and the ‘vision’ of a Protestant Britain 8th Nov 2018 Joint session with Theology and Ethics: Rev. Dr Leah Robinson, University of Edinburgh ‘Bad theology’: exploring the Southern Baptist (USA) archives 13th Nov 2018 Dr Noel O’Regan, University of Edinburgh. Singing the Counter-reformation 20th Nov 2018 Dr Nikki Macdonald: Wild words and deviant discourses: taming the tongue in 16th century Scotland 27th Nov 2018 Dr Tom Brown, Hon. Fellow in History, University of Edinburgh. Local Ravenna elites and their use of saints This article was published on 2024-03-19
