Event Archive

2017

November

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  Martin Luther: Manhood and Pugilism

  09 November 2017, 16:15 - 18:00

  Please register via Eventbrite: Professor Roper's recent book on Martin Luther provides a critical reassessment of the German Reformer during the anniversary of his alleged 'posting of the 95 theses' on a church door in Wittenberg. Luther, not the 'deus ex machina', and not the benign reformer, but a manipulative and...

• Classics & Patristics Reading Group, Autumn 2017

  09 November 2017, 13:00 - 14:00

  Reading and translating passages from the Latin text of Augustine’s Confessions. 

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  Commemorating the Anniversary of the Russian October Revolution

  08 November 2017, 19:30 - 21:00

  ACREEH in Cooperation with the Friends of the Library Wed 8 November 2017, 19.30-21.00 in the Seminar Room of the Special Collection Centre, Sir Duncan Rice Library, Lower floor Professor Tony Heywood: Leith, Gallipoli and the Russian Revolution Professor Paul Dukes:  Aberdeen and the Russian Revolution Followed by a TV mini-documentary: Russia under Soviet Power...

• New Testament Seminar, Autumn 2017

  08 November 2017, 16:00 - 17:30

  Reading the book of Jubilees.   Especially if you are an on campus NT PhD student, I hope to see you all there! Everybody else is also very welcome.

• History Postgraduate Seminar Series, 2017-2018

  08 November 2017, 15:00 - 16:00

  Explorans Supram-Disciplinam (Exploring the Meta-Discipline)

• Old Testament Research Seminar, Autumn 2017

  07 November 2017, 14:00 - 16:00

  The Holiness Code (Leviticus 17-26): its literary history and its theology

• Theological Ethics Research Seminar, Autumn 2017

  06 November 2017, 15:00 - 17:00

  Time and venue: 3-5 PM, Humanities Manse, ground floor seminar room 1 Seminar Text: All readings will come from Luther’s WorksAmerican Edition edited by Jaroslav Pelikan and published by Fortress and Concordia (all volumes are in the library). 6 Nov., “The Sermon on the Mount,” 1532. LW vol. 21, pp. 3-44.  

• Systematic Theology Seminar, Autumn 2017

  06 November 2017, 10:00 - 12:00

  This seminar will allow students to explore and engage the theological work of one of the most important contemporary figures in European Protestant thought – Wilfried Härle.  Text: Wilfried Härle, Outline of Christian Doctrine: An Evangelical Dogmatics translated by Ruth Yule; co-translated and edited by Nicholas Sagovsky (Grand Rapids [MI] /...

• Classics & Patristics Reading Group, Autumn 2017

  02 November 2017, 13:00 - 14:00

  Reading and translating passages from the Latin text of Augustine’s Confessions. 

• Philosophy Talks 2017-18

  01 November 2017, 15:00 - 16:45

  Alexander Douglas (St Andrews) "Spinoza and the British Idealists: Acosmism, Determination, and Negation" 1 Nov 2017 at 3:00