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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)

18^th Sept 2018	Social- meeting of students and staff who teach and study the History of Christianity
25^thSept 2018	Joshua Bruce, University of Edinburgh: When Schism Became Heresy: A Juridical Approach to the Problem of Coercion in Augustine
2^nd Oct 2018	Dr Simon Burton, John Laing Senior Lecturer in Reformation History, University of Edinburgh Consultatio Catholica: Method and Reform in the Comenian Circle
9^th 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
16^th Oct 2018	Professor Jeffrey Cox, University of Iowa Towards Eliminating the Concept of Secularization
23^rd 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
30^th Oct 2018	Professor Emerita Jane Dawson, University of Edinburgh Scotland, Ireland and the ‘vision’ of a Protestant Britain
8^th Nov 2018	Joint session with Theology and Ethics: Rev. Dr Leah Robinson, University of Edinburgh ‘Bad theology’: exploring the Southern Baptist (USA) archives
13^th Nov 2018	Dr Noel O’Regan, University of Edinburgh. Singing the Counter-reformation
20^th Nov 2018	Dr Nikki Macdonald: Wild words and deviant discourses: taming the tongue in 16th century Scotland
27^th 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 9 Sep, 2019