Welcome to new and returning students

Students on the programme are in St Andrews 2-6 September 2024 for their study week. Most are taking the ‘Sacred Scripts’ module taught by Prof. Sabine Hyland, others are here for their dissertation study skills workshop. The School of Divinity welcomes new and returning students for whom this is a highlight of each semester.

Article in ‘La Croix’ by one of our current students

La Croix, a Roman Catholic weekly newspaper in France, has published an article by Vladimir Molinié, our of our current students on ‘Bible and the Contemporary World’. The opinion-piece, ‘Monsieur Zemmour, pourquoi faire de la souffrance française un instrument de pouvoir?’ challenges the far-right views of presidential candidate Éric Zemmour. Molinié describes his article as … Read more

New issue of our online journal published

Bible and the Contemporary World vol. 3, no.2 (2021) is now available online. Peter van der Sluijs, ‘The Theologian Who Is Homeless’. Andrew Van Tiem, ‘Amazon and Revelation 18’. David Conway, ‘Othering in Youth Justice’. More information on the journal, which focuses on work undertaken by alumni of this programme.

New book by alumna – Lynn McChlery

Lynn McChlery (MLitt, 2013) has recently published How Do You Know It’s God: Discerning a Vocation to Ministry in Churches (London: SCM, 2021). Lynn’s book has its genesis in her dissertation that was part of her MLitt Bible and the Contemporary World. Lynn subsequently developed this into her PhD dissertation at Durham University in England. She … Read more

New issue of our online journal published

Bible and the Contemporary World vol. 3, no. 1 (2021) is now available online. Ray Land, ‘Unaccountable Being.’ Spencer Davison, ‘The Value of Interpassivity for Evaluating Sermon Handouts in American Evangelical Churches.’ Victoria John-Wawa, ‘The Depiction of God in the Book of Revelation.’ Review: ‘Talking Back to Purity Culture’, Rachel Welcher. Oliver Barclay-Higham, ‘Finally Come … Read more

Theology and the Arts – guest speakers

Chris Wojtulewicz (KU Leuven) was one of our guest speakers at the September 2020 study week for our programme. His book, Meister Eckhart on the Principle: An Analysis of the principium in his Latin Works was published by Peeters in 2017. Another of our guest speakers during the week was Prof. Christopher Southgate (Exeter) who … Read more