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…
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Review: That All Shall Be Saved
by Matthew Joss Graduate Student of St. Mary’s College Logos Institute, University of St. Andrews ___________ That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation, by David Bentley Hart (Yale, 232 pp. £20.00)…
University Receives £3.4 Templeton Grant for Theology Encyclopaedia
The School of Divinity at the University of St Andrews has secured its largest ever research grant of £3.4 million from the John Templeton Foundation to support the creation and launch of a free, online encyclopaedia…
Review of Brian E. Daley’s God Visible: Patristic Christology Reconsidered
By Adam Renberg, PhD Candidate in Historical Theology at the University of St. Andrews _________________________________________ Daley, Brian E. God Visible: Patristic Christology Reconsidered (Oxford: Oxford…
Review of Candida R. Moss’s Divine Bodies: Resurrecting Perfection in the New Testament and Early Christianity’
By Ethan Johnson, PhD candidate in New Testament at the University of St. Andrews __________________________________________ Moss, Candida R. Divine Bodies: Resurrecting Perfection in the New Testament and Early…
Research Grant for “New Directions in Philosophical Theology”
Professor Judith Wolfe has received a £174,000 ($230,000) grant from the Templeton Religion Trust to lead a two-year research project entitled “New Directions in Philosophical Theology.” The aim of the project is to…
St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology project: an interview with Brendan Wolfe
The Roundel caught up by e-mail with Brendan Wolfe, Principal Research Fellow at St Mary’s and the Managing Editor the St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology project. The Roundel: Thank you for your time. Can you give…
A Review of Rowan Williams’ Christ the Heart of Creation
By Patrick McGlinchey, PhD Candidate in Systematic Theology at St. Mary’s _______________________________ Christ the Heart of Creation by Rowan Williams (London: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2018) xvi + 304 pp. What does it…
The Seventh Art: Considering Film as Theology
by Joel Mayward, PhD Candidate in St. Mary’s ITIA In Joel and Ethan Coen’s film Hail, Caesar! (2016), a hilarious scene unfolds around a boardroom table at a fictional 1950s Hollywood film studio. Producer and “fixer”…
More Poetry and Literature, Please. A Brief Reflection on the Rilke and Eliot Symposium
Today, March 21st, is World Poetry Day, which is really just an excuse to offer a brief reflection on the Rilke and Eliot symposium held at St. Mary’s earlier this month. St. Mary’s hosted a number of scholars to…
The theologians, You and I
By Dr. Oliver Langworthy, Associate Lecturer in Patristics, St. Mary’s ____________________________ I recently published on the subject of how Gregory Nazianzus received the title of the Theologian. The article was…