Theology and Ethics 2017
Wednesdays, 11:10am - 12:50pm, Martin Hall
The seminars are for postgraduates and staff, and others are most welcome. For enquiries, please contact Dr David Grumett (david.grumett@ed.ac.uk)
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.
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| 4 October |
Revd Prof David Fergusson Providence in the Reformed tradition.
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| 11 October |
Dr Gisela Kreglinger Coming to our senses: a spirituality of wine for worship, feasting and the everyday.
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| 18 October |
Revd Dr Harriet Harris and the Revd Canon John McLuckie Spiritual but not religious?
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| 23, 24 and 25 October at 5 p.m |
Prof Werner Jeanrond Croall Lectures Reasons to Hope.
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| 1 November |
Dr Richard Sudworth Anglican Christian–Muslim relations: the ecclesial turn
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| 8 November |
Revd Dr Leah Robinson ‘Bad theology’: exploring the Southern Baptist (USA) archives
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| 15 November |
Clement Wen 'Between ecclesiology and eschatology: reconsidering Pannenberg's doctrine of election' George Walters-Sleyon Poverty, prisons and theology in Scotland
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| 22 November |
Revd Canon Dr Michael Fuller Big data: ethical problems and theological responses
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