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Dr Triin Laidoner ‘Wetting’ the Mothers’ Mounds in Egils saga Skallagrímssonar? A Study of kumbla brjótr in Egill’s lausavísa (no. 4) Abstract: Dísir are accepted by many scholars to represent dead foremothers who were widely known and celebrated in Scandinavia. It is therefore not unreasonable to assume that the activities revolving around them were at least initially...

During the spring term we will be reading a selection of texts from the undisputed letters of Paul. The schedule of readings is designed to give attendees exposure to several passages central to descriptions of the Apostle Paul’s thought (including his view of the sacraments) and to reconstructions of the...

Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick (Queen’s University Belfast and Ulster University): ‘There was no harm about her if she were not married’: Bad Bridget and deviant Irish motherhood in North America, 1838-1918’

In 2019/20 the Seminar starts the first of two years of exploration of recent philosophical interpretations of the Apostle Paul in relation to questions of truth, knowledge and politics. This year will consider works by Alain Badiou and Jacob Taubes. In 2020/20, we will continue reading of works by Stanislas...

A series of research lectures in the spring semester on Wednesday mornings in the Divinity Library. This Seminar will profile the work of our post-doctoral research fellows in Divinity. ‘“Body theodicy”: Theological complicity in the bodily trauma of women’ :: Dr Katie Cross  

During the spring term we will be reading a selection of texts from the undisputed letters of Paul. The schedule of readings is designed to give attendees exposure to several passages central to descriptions of the Apostle Paul’s thought (including his view of the sacraments) and to reconstructions of the...

Gerry Carruthers (University of Glasgow): ‘Kirk and Nation in Robert Burns’

Prof Lesley Abrams (Balliol College, Oxford) The Religious Life of Viking Armies

During the spring term we will be reading a selection of texts from the undisputed letters of Paul. The schedule of readings is designed to give attendees exposure to several passages central to descriptions of the Apostle Paul’s thought (including his view of the sacraments) and to reconstructions of the...

Speaker: Bradford Bow (Aberdeen)