David Fergusson MA BD DPhil FRSE
Professor of Divinity
| Roles: | Principal of New College |
New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh, EH1 2LX
Telephone: +44 (0)131 650 8912Fax: +44 (0)131 650 7952
Biography
Trained in philosophy and theology, David Fergusson worked for several years as a parish minister in the Church of Scotland. Prior to returning to Edinburgh where he held a lectureship from 1986, he was Professor of Systematic Theology in the University of Aberdeen (1990–2000).
He has delivered the Bampton Lectures in Oxford (2001), the Gifford Lectures in Glasgow (2008), the Warfield Lectures in Princeton (2009) and has lectured widely in the USA, Europe, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Australia. In 2013, he will deliver the Birks Lectures at McGill University, Montreal and the Hulsean sermon at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
External appointments
- Director of the Scottish Journal of Theology
- Trustee of Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton
- Deputy Chair of REF Sub-Panel for Theology & Religious Studies