Research Seminar

Candlemas 2026

The weekly research seminar, to which all staff and students interested in systematic & historical theology are invited, takes place on Wednesdays during term. This semester, the seminar is organized jointly with the Logos Institute, and follows this pattern:

11am-12.30pm Seminar in the Senior Common Room
12.45pm onwards Bring-your-own lunch in the Senior Common Room (coffee, tea, and water available)

Seminars will be in person and will not be live-streamed. If you are not on the Theology Research Seminar list, and would like to receive reminders and texts, please email the seminar coordinators, Prof. Oliver Crisp or Prof. Judith Wolfe.

Schedule

Week 1 (28 Jan)         Prof. Oliver Crisp (St Andrews), “Theology in the University”

Week 2 (4 Feb)           Prof. Judith Wolfe (St Andrews), “Theology and the Humanities in the 21st Century”

Week 3 (11 Feb)         Dr Charles Howell (St Andrews), “A Prodigal Return to Modern Metaphysics: Love, Freedom, and the Aesthetics of Glory in Eberhard Jüngel”

Week 4 (18 Feb)         Prof. George Corbett (St Andrews), “Whose Aquinas? The Thomism of Dante and of Étienne Gilson”

Week 5 (25 Feb)         Dr Declan Kelly (Aberdeen), title tbc

Vacation (4 Mar)         Rev Prof Edwin Chr. Van Driel (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary), title tbc

Week 6 (11 Mar)        Scott Davison (Morehead State University) “Petitionary Prayer”

Week 7 (18 Mar)         Dr David Leech (Bristol), “The Heart Has Its Reasons: On the Intelligibility of Religious Heart Knowing”

Week 8 (25 Mar)         to be confirmed

Week 9 (1 Apr)            Dr Sara Mannen (Aberdeen), title tbc

Week 10 (ILW)            ILW – No seminar

Week 11 (15 Apr)       Rev Dr Jared Michelson (St Andrews), title tbc

Week 12 (22 Apr)       Rev Dr Wade Bellesbach (Westfield House, Cambridge), title tbc

You may view past schedules of research seminars on the seminar archive list.