Turn to the Social
The Theology Research Seminar recently heard from Dr Justin Stratis of Trinity College Bristol. Dr Stratis presented ‘Modern English Trinitarianism and the Turn to the Social – Exploring the Welch Thesis’. This is part…
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Formation and Interpretation
It’s three weeks until our upcoming Formation and Interpretation: Ways of Knowing and Knowledge of God conference. Register here (£5 to cover refreshments, free for students of St Mary’s College) We pause to meet one…
How did this get on my plate?
I had a feeling that a lecture entitled ‘Consuming Animal Creatures: The Ethics of Eating Animals’ was potentially going to challenge my omnivorous habits. As I mentioned in my previous post, theology should include…
High steaks? On Animals Volume 2
On 22nd February, Professor David Clough visited the University of St Andrews Theology Research Seminar. Clough is Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Chester and involved with many projects, including…
The Word, the Words and the Trinity
Dr Brandon Gallaher presented in our third week of the Theology Research Seminar for the spring semester. Dr Gallaher is a lecturer in Systematic and Comparative Theology at Exeter University. Dr Gallaher’s earlier…
Sacramental and creaturely tradition
There is much here to which I gladly say Amen, but I am yet to rejoin the Catholic fold and so I still murmur. Professor Lewis Ayres was clear in his stance that the best ecumenical discussions which he has pursued are…
…Totius Traditionis Mirabile Sacramentum
For the second meeting of its spring semester, the St Andrews theology research seminar was privileged to welcome Professor Lewis Ayres. He is Professor of Catholic and Historical Theology at Durham University and…
The Safety of Abstraction
As much as I was engaged by the content of Dr. Alistair McFadyen’s seminar, I was even more engaged by his method of embodied reflection. As both a theologian and a police officer, he is uniquely situated to discuss…
On Having Enemies
Our first Theology Research Seminar of 2017 welcomed Dr Alistair McFadyen, Senior Lecturer in Theology, University of Leeds, and author of Bound to Sin: Abuse, Holocaust and the Christian Doctrine of Sin. Dr McFadyen…