Theology and Ethics 2017

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

Semester 2

24 January Dr Ashley Cocksworth  Theorizing the (Anglican) lex orandi: what is the ‘law of prayer’ for?
31 January Joanna Leidenhag  Does panpsychism invite theism? A re-examination of the position of theism within contemporary philosophy of mind  •  Josef Linnhoff  What does it mean to associate with God? Interpretations of shirk (idolatry) in modern Muslim thought
7 February  Revd Prof Philip Ziegler: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s evangelization of the doctrine of God
14 February Prof Linn Marie Tonstad, book discussion of God and Difference: The Trinity, Sexuality, and the Transformation of Finitude
7 March Canon Prof Elaine Graham: Do progressives need God? In defence of radical theology
14 March Prof Jay Thomas Oord : Models of providence
19, 20 and 21 March 

Gunning Lectures by Prof Ann Taves - Religions as worldviews and as ways of life

28 March Andrew Johnson  The implicit dimensions of explicit faith: attending to the holistic character of Christian believing  •  Chris Medland  Faith-based social activism in Edinburgh: meanings, motives and definitions in three local organizations

 

Semester 1

27 September 

 

  Dr Deborah Casewell  Is repetition possible? Re-reading Kierkegaard through Eberhard Jüngel’s Heideggerian ontology.

 

4 October 

 

  Revd Prof David Fergusson  Providence in the Reformed tradition.

 

11 October 

 

  Dr Gisela Kreglinger  Coming to our senses: a spirituality of wine for worship, feasting and the everyday.

 

18 October 

 

  Revd Dr Harriet Harris and the Revd Canon John McLuckie Spiritual but not religious?

 

23, 24 and 25 October at 5 p.m

 

  Prof Werner Jeanrond Croall Lectures  Reasons to Hope.

 

1 November  

 

  Dr Richard Sudworth  Anglican Christian–Muslim relations: the ecclesial turn

 

8 November

 

  Revd Dr Leah Robinson  ‘Bad theology’: exploring the Southern Baptist (USA) archives

 

15 November 

 

  Clement Wen 'Between ecclesiology and eschatology: reconsidering Pannenberg's doctrine of election'   

  George Walters-Sleyon  Poverty, prisons and theology in Scotland

 

22 November 

 

  Revd Canon Dr Michael Fuller  Big data: ethical problems and theological responses

 

 

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