Centre for Theology and Public Issues

📅 You can now sign up for our January conference, "Whose Christianity Anyway?"

Register now for free! https://edin.ac/41CvAKw

Important note!
✅ While registering, please choose whether you will attend in-person, or online.
🥪 Please bring your own lunch.
☕️ Tea & refreshments will be provided.

Whose Christianity Anyway? Join us for this timely and curial academic conference at the University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, co-sponsored by the CTPI.

We are looking forward to another exciting colloquium coming up.
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𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙄𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝘿𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙁𝙖𝙞𝙩𝙝-𝘽𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝘼𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙢.
📅 4 April 2025
Hybrid, alongside a face-to-face gathering at the University of Edinburgh

📢 Call for Papers: 15 January 2025.
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Organisers and supporting groups include:
Dr Steve Taylor, Director AngelWings Ltd;
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities - University of Edinburgh
Researching Indigenous Studies and Christianity https://riscnetwork.wixsite.com/risc
Centre for the Study of World Christianity
CTPI

Grassroots and Indigenous Digital Faith-Based Activism Colloquium—Call for Papers Digital technology is changing the world. In response to global challenges, diverse grassroots faith-based organisations, indigenous or otherwise, are using digital technologies to activate for jus…

Watch the recording of our recent Book Launch event at the School Of Divinity, New College, University Of Edinburgh

"New Research on Animals in Religious Thought."

New Research on Animals in Religious Thought: Book Launch @uoedivinity Martin Hall, New College, School of Divinity16 October 2024__Book Launch event for two new books: Ask the Animals: Developing a Biblical Animal Hermeneutic (...

📢 Update about CTPI sponsored conference, "Whose Christianity Anyway?" on 9-10 Jan 2025.

⏰ CfP extended: 8 Nov (12pm).
🌐 Hybrid event, with in-person keynotes & social events.
📖 Planned output: Journal issue of selected papers.
Registration: Eventbrite link will be out next week!

Due to a high level of interest from across the globe (USA to S Korea to NZ!), the organisers of the CTPI sponsored conference “Whose Christianity anyway?” have taken the decision to extend the call for papers deadlines by a week to 12pm GMT on November 8th, 2024. This conference explores the various claims to Christianity from within the field of theology and beyond, and we are delighted to have two outstanding keynote speakers lined up for the event: Professor Jan Werner Müller and Dr Marietta Van Der Tol.

When capacity for speakers is reached, priority will be given to speakers who can attend in person, however this conference will support hybrid participation to aid the international aspect of its topic and the abstracts submitted.

Following the conference, the best papers will be selected for inclusion in an edited journal volume published after the event.

For more details and the full call for papers, see

Delighted to announce the keynote speakers for the upcoming conference: Prof Jan-Werner Müller (Princeton University) and Dr Marietta van der Tol (Cambridge University).

Hope you'll join us too. There's still time to send an abstract! (Deadline: 1 November)

School Of Divinity, New College, University Of Edinburgh

🔗 https://edin.ac/407uciw

🚨Exciting work opportunity here with us at CTPI,
School Of Divinity, New College, University Of Edinburgh!

𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 𝘿𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙥𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙁𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬 𝙞𝙣 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙋𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙘 𝙄𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙚𝙨

🗒️Part-time, fixed term (12 months). Apply before 29 October.

Research Development Fellow in Theology and Public Issues The part-time (17.5 hours per week) Research Development Fellow in Theology and Public Issues will contribute to the strategic development of Edinburgh’s Centre for Theology and Public Issues (CTPI), which has been a leading centre for research in public theology for more than 40 years. We aim to ...

New Research on Animals in Religious Thought.
📅 16/10/24
⏲️ 4:10 - 5:30 pm
🥂5:30 pm: Refreshments

You are warmly invited to hear short presentations and join in discussion to mark the launch of two new books: Ask the Animals: Developing a Biblical Animal Hermeneutic (eds, Arthur W. Walker-Jones and Suzanna R. Millar) and The Bible and Farm Animal Welfare (David Grumett). Suzanna R. Millar and David Grumett will speak on the two new publications, along with a response by Peter Atkins. There will be opportunities to join in discussion and interaction.

The discussion will be followed by refreshments at Rainy Hall.

Jointly held with Biblical Studies and Theology & Ethics, at New College.
School Of Divinity, New College, University Of Edinburgh

For more information, visit the webpage: https://edin.ac/4gSyd0f

CTPI is thrilled to support an upcoming conference in 9-10 January 2025, led by graduates of the School Of Divinity, New College, University Of Edinburgh.

Stay tuned for announcements about the keynote speaker/s and registration details.

📢See the second image for details regarding 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘗𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴. Send an abstract (200 words) to [email protected] by 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰. We look forward to a wide and interdisciplinary engagement!

A Church of Scotland report on the recently held event, Devolution@25.

𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 @𝟮𝟱 is an upcoming event, co-organised with SCPO (Scottish Churches Parliamentary Office) of the Church of Scotland. This will be an opportunity to celebrate and reflect on 25 years of the churches’ relationship with the Scottish Parliament.

📅 September 4, 2024 (Wednesday)
⏲️ 10:30 am - 6:30 pm/
📍 Assembly Hall, School Of Divinity, New College, University Of Edinburgh

To register or learn more, click here!

Devolution @25 Reflections, perspectives and visions of the Churches’ relationship with the Scottish Parliament.

We are thrilled to publish an evaluative report on the 'Animals and Religion' event. It provides a brief summary of the keynotes delivered by faculty speakers, Bethany Sollereder, Suzanna Millar, and David Grumett. Beyond the summaries, the report delves into a critical reflection on the conversations that unfolded, and the diverse perspectives shared.

The Centre for Theology and Public Issues (CTPI) remains dedicated to delving deeper into the intersection between nonhuman animals and religious thought. We invite you to stay tuned for upcoming events and information!

The report is compiled by Thiu Elias KC, CTPI Project Manager and PhD Candidate in World Christianity.

https://divinity.ed.ac.uk/centre-theology-and-public-issues/report-event-animals-and-religion

Centre for the Study of World Christianity
School Of Divinity, New College, University Of Edinburgh

Report on event: Animals and Religion An evaluative report of the Animals and Religion event (16 April 2024) at the School of Divinity. Written by Rathiulung Elias KC

Upcoming Event!

"Parable and Politics: Martin Luther King, Jr’s Critique of Idolatry," by Alexander Livingston (Cornell University)

Martin Luther King, Jr’s commitment to the claims of conscience has been a persistent source of fascination and discomfort for political theorists. Prioritizing conscience over law has made King an icon of civil disobedience while the religious terms of this vision of obligation have proven challenging to the discipline’s secularist conceits. Thinking of conscientious service as a practice of worship, this paper seeks to shed new light on the ways King’s public philosophy exceeds the familiar discourses of civil disobedience it has become associated with. In naming commitment to conscience as a means of worship I mean to highlight the ways King figured the sources of injustice he railed against – racism, materialism, militarism – as cases of false worship. One name we can give to such false worship is uncivil obedience. Another is idolatry. Affirming rather than avoiding King’s religious thought offers new insight into how King figured the problem of conscience as a challenge of reattuning and reeducating Americans’ alienated capacity for seeing and feeling the claims of equality. Taking the religious King seriously in this way means to challenge not just how political theorists read King but what we read. I argue that the hundreds of sermons he delivered offer the fullest and most important archive of King’s thinking on the meaning of conscience, obligation, and citizenship. Across this canon, King returned again and again to series of parables as the medium for articulating his moral and political thought. This paper focuses on King’s retelling of one such parable, the parable of the Good Samaritan, as a means of rhetorically unsettling idolatrous attachment and reeducating the proper democratic worship of the conscientious citizen.

School of Social and Political Science at The University of Edinburgh

School Of Divinity, New College, University Of Edinburgh
Please join us 6 June 15:00-17:00,
Chrystal Macmillan Building, Violet Laidlaw Room.
https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/news-events/event/parable-and-politics-martin-luther-king-jrs-critique-idolatry-alexander

Profile of speaker, Alexander Livingston: https://government.cornell.edu/alexander-livingston