Research Seminar
Martinmas 2025
The weekly research seminar, to which all staff and students interested in systematic & historical theology are invited, takes place on Wednesdays during term and typically follows this pattern:
11am-12.30pm Theology Seminar in St Mary’s College Hall
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.cIf you are not on the Theology Research Seminar list, and would like to receive reminders and texts, please email the seminar coordinator, Dr Dafydd Daniel, demd1 [at] st-andrews.ac.uk.
In Martinmas (Semester 1) 2025, the seminar continues its autumn practice of reading through the history of theology. Following our reading of Jonathan Edwards in the context of responses to the Enlightenment last year, we are reading texts by Friedrich Schleiermacher this semester.
Schedule
Week 1 (17 Sept) Introduction: Why theologians continue to argue about Schleiermacher (Jared Michelson).
–> Please read Schleiermacher’s letters XXVII-XXXI
Week 2 (24 Sept) On Religion, Speech 2, pp. 26-62 (discussion led by Jared Michelson)
Week 3 (1 Oct) On Religion, Speech 2, pp. 73-101 (discussion led by Cody Brown)
Week 4 (8 Oct) Schleiermacher and the God-World Relation: The Christian Faith §§47-48, 50-51, 54-55; optional: first letter to Lücke (discussion led by Daniel Pederson)
Week 5 (15 Oct) Schleiermacher and Christology: The Christian Faith §§86-99; optional: On Christmas Eve, pp. 52-74 (discussion led by Bruce McCormack)
ILW No seminar
Week 7 (29 Oct) Schleiermacher and the Trinity: The Christian Faith §§123, 170-72; optional: second letter to Lücke (discussion led by Jarek Jankowski)
Week 8 (5 Nov) Schleiermacher and Sin: The Christian Faith §§66-74 (discussion led by Jarek Jankowski)
Week 9 (12 Nov) Schleiermacher and the Atonement: The Christian Faith §§103-105 (discussion led by Joshua Ralston)
Week 10 (19 Nov) Schleiermacher and the Final Judgement: The Christian Faith §§158-163 (discussion led by Cody Brown)
You may view past schedules of research seminars on the seminar archive list.
