The Theological Task Before Us
By Oliver D. Crisp, Professor of Analytic Theology, St. Mary’s College Theology is a way of life. That sounds like a platitude, or a cliché. Perhaps it is. Nevertheless, it is true. Theology is sometimes characterized…
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The Case of Iconoclasm
By Dr. Natalie Carnes, Associate Professor of Theology at Baylor University, currently visiting St. Andrews under the “Baylor at St. Andrews” program. She is the author of Image and Presence and Beauty Though the term…
Martin Heidegger and Catholicism: The Unexpected Enemy in the Black Notebooks
by Judith Wolfe, Professor of Philosophical Theology and the Deputy Head of the School of Divinity, St. Mary’s College In the autumn of 1931, Martin Heidegger began to record his private thoughts and intellectual…
An Interview with Professor Christoph Schwöbel
Professor Christoph Schwöbel, the 1643 Chair of Divinity, joined St. Mary’s this fall from the University of Tübingen. Below he offers thorough answers to questions pertaining to his position at St. Andrews, his plans…
The Season of Advent: Bonaventure on the Prophetess Anna in the Lukan Infancy Narrative
By Dr. William Hyland, Lecturer in Church History, St Mary’s College Currently in one aspect of my research, I am engaged in exploring the interplay between exegesis, theology and devotion in the writings of the…
Judith Wolfe on BBC4 program ‘In Our Time’
Judith Wolfe, St. Mary’s Professor of Philosophical Theology, spoke on Melvyn Bragg’s program In Our Time on the philosophy of hope. To the ancient Greeks, hope was closer to self-deception, one of the evils left in…
SST Meeting 2018
The annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Theology will soon arrive. We asked Dr. O’Donnell, an Executive Committee member of the SST, to share her thoughts on the upcoming meeting. For more information, visit…
Welcome to the Roundel
The Roundel is the graduate blog of the School of Divinity’s Systematic & Historical Theology subject group. It is named after the Roundel, the distinctive 16th-century tower, overlooking St Andrews Cathedral, that…
Announcement of Prof. Dr. Christoph Schwöbel
The School is delighted to announce that Prof. Dr. Christoph Schwöbel will take the 1643 Chair in Divinity in September 2018. The chair fell vacant at Prof. John Webster’s death in 2015. Prof. Schwöbel is presently…
Pastor or Theologian? Rejecting the False Dichotomy
This post is authored by Gerald Hiestand. Gerald is Senior Associate Pastor at Calvary Memorial Church in Chicago, Illinois, and co-founder and executive director of the Center for Pastor Theologians. He is the author…
