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Professor David Fergusson FBA

The doctrines of creation and providence, relationship of church and state, engagement with the 'new atheism', and the history of Reformed theology, especially in Scotland
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2013
Subjects
Religion
Sections
Theology and Religious Studies
Website
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/divinity/

10-Minute Talks: Atheism in debate

20 Jan 2021 Professor David Fergusson FBA

Professor David Fergusson FBA explains the growing interest in the study of atheism and the different forms this now takes.

Current post

University of Edinburgh Professor of Divinity

2000 -

New College, University of Edinburgh Principal

2008 - 2018

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Rev Professor John Swinton FBA

Theology and mental health, theology of disability, dementia, spirituality health and healing, practical theology, qualitative research methods, ecclesiology and ethnography, end of life care, theodicy and the problem of evil.

Rev Professor John Swinton

Professor Garth Fowden FBA

Intellectual currents and imperial horizons in the first millennium CE, from Augustus to Avicenna, Central Asia to the Atlantic. Emergent Islam in its late antique context

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Professor Gavin Flood FBA

Hindu religious literature in the Middle Ages (post-Gupta period); comparative religion, with particular reference to Hinduism and Christianity; philosophical phenomenology and hermeneutics

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