Event Archive

2021

September

• Theological Ethics Research Seminar

  27 September 2021, 15:00 - 17:00

  Christian Ethics as Prophecy in Turbulent Times

May

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  Friendship House Music and Stories

  12 May 2021, 15:30 - 16:30

  Friendship House is pleased to announce a virtual event on 12 May from 15:30-16:30 featuring Professors John Swinton and Grant Macaskill alongside Fiona Kennedy OBE, each sharing stories and memories linked to music. The goal is to help students and community members alike combat the loneliness which has taken hold...

January

• Philosophy of Religion PG/Faculty Seminar

  28 January - 13 May 2021

  The seminar will run as a weekly discussion of selected texts among faculty and research students within the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy.   The theme for this session is ‘conscience’, as a locus for studying certain interrelations between biblical theology, natural religion, and the history of moral philosophy. Readings will...

• New Testament Research Seminar

  27 January - 31 March 2021

  Select Wednesdays, 3:30–4:45pm (UK Time), MS Teams 27 January Prof. John Collins (Yale University) “Reflections on Apocalyptic and Apocalypticism 40 Years on from Semeia 14” 10 February Rachel Danley (University of Aberdeen) “Reworking Spatial Metaphors of Temple in Second Temple Judaism” Larissa Rosendale (University of Aberdeen) “Characterisation, Cosmology and Crystals: Gemstones in the...

• Theological Ethics Research Seminar

  25 January - 05 April 2021

  The Theological Ethics Research Seminar for this term is "A Troubled Inheritance: Desire, Power and Theology Abused". The seminar will ask if—or how—we should read the works of a theologian tainted by moral failure, and will focus on the sexual scandals associated with Karl Barth, John Howard Yoder and Jean Vanier. This...

• Practical Theology Research Seminar

  20 January - 31 March 2021

  Our seminar text is The Dangers of Christian Practice: On Wayward Gifts, Characteristic Damage, and Sin by Lauren Winner (Yale University Press, 2018). The text is available through Primo here. Seminars will be held on alternate Wednesdays, from 4.00-6.00pm UK time. As with last term, all sessions will take place online on...

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  PhD Divinity Information Session

  19 January 2021, 16:30 - 17:30

  Interested in a PhD in Divinity at Aberdeen? Join several of our staff for an information session and Q&A on Tuesday, 19 January, 4:30–5:30p (UK Time). Register here.

2020

October

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  Systematic Theology Research Seminar

  06 October - 01 December 2020

  In this somewhat unusual season, the seminar will run as a concise discussion of working papers circulated in advance by faculty and research students in the department. Papers will be made available roughly one week before each session. Sessions themselves will take place in the Divinity Library for those able...

September

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  Practical Theology Research Seminar

  30 September - 09 December 2020

  Seminar text: Ghost Ship, A.D.A. France-Williams All welcome. All Practical Theology PhD students, (on-campus and distance) are expected to attend seminars regularly. Please see attached flyer for seminar dates and more information.  

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  New Testament Research Seminar

  30 September - 25 November 2020

  All PG students are welcome. Please note that all New Testament PhD candidates (resident and distance) are expected to attend seminars regularly as able. Meetings and materials will be on MS Teams. For access and further information, please contact Dr J. Thomas Hewitt (jthomas.hewitt@abdn.ac.uk). Please see attached flyer for dates and...