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Prof David Fergusson MA BD DPhil FRSE
Educated in philosophy and theology, David Fergusson worked for several years as a parish minister in the Church of Scotland.
Before returning to Edinburgh to his present position, he was Professor of Systematic Theology in the University of Aberdeen from 1990-2000.
Research and academic interests
His research interests include issues in Christian doctrine, theological ethics and the history of Reformed theology, especially in its Scottish context.
He has served as President of the Society for the Study of Theology (2000-2002) and is a director and editorial board member of the Scottish Journal of Theology. From 2005-8, he was chair of the UK Association of University Departments of Theology and Religious Studies.
He has delivered the Cunningham Lectures in Edinburgh (1996), the Bampton Lectures in Oxford (2001), the Gifford Lectures in Glasgow (2008) and the Warfield Lectures in Princeton (2009). He has also lectured in Korea, Hong Kong, Japan and Australia.
From 2010-12, he is principal investigator for an AHRC/ESRC funded-project on Christianity, Psychotherapy and Spiritualty in Scotland 1945-2000. For further details of the project see www.theologyandtherapy.div.ed.ac.uk.
Selected publications
Cambridge Dictionary of Theology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011) co-edited with Karen Kilby, Ian McFarland and Iain Torrance.
Blackwell Companion to 19th Century Theology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2010)
Faith and Its Critics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
Scottish Philosophical Theology (Exeter: Imprint Academic Press, 2007)
Church, State and Civil Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)
Additional publications
A list of additional publications is available in PDF format.
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This article was published on Jan 23, 2012