Biblical reflections of Christina Rossetti TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | Books | Divinity | New College Library | nineteenth-century | University of Edinburgh   At this week’s Biblical Studies Research Seminar in the School of Divinity, the speaker is  Dr Alison Jack,  on“Reading the Parable of the Prodigal Son with Christina Rossetti”. Down …Continue reading →

Early twentieth-century Christianity in Korea TAGS: Christianity | Divinity | Korea | New College Library | Presbyterian | research | twentieth-century | University of Edinburgh | World Christianity The School of Divinity’s World Christianity seminar series  continues with  “No Neutrality for Brutality”: The Missionary Position on Indigenous Resistance Movements in Colonial Korea, 1910-1919 by Han Kang-Hee. These two …Continue reading →

Christianity in the Far East? TAGS: Books | China | Christianity | Divinity | missions | New College Library | nineteenth-century | Tibet | twentieth-century | University of Edinburgh | World Christianity The Centre for the Study of World Christianity at the School of Divinity hosts its Research Seminar today, and the speaker is Andrew Kaiser, on: ” Lessons for Today from …Continue reading →

To Africa with Love TAGS: Africa | Archives | missions | New College Library | research | Scotland | Special Collections | World Christianity | Z Collection Today’s Centre for the Study of World Christianity Research Seminar is presented by Dr Jack Thompson, ‘African mission photography: Light on Darkness’. This item, Reports of the Glasgow Missionary Society, from …Continue reading →

Israel, the Assyrians and a shoemaker’s gift TAGS: Biblical Studies | Disruption | Divinity | donations | eighteenth-century | history | Israel | New College Library | nineteenth-century | Presbyterian | rare books | Special Collections | U.S.A. | Z Collection At todays’ opening seminar in the Divinity Biblical Studies Research Seminar series, the speaker is Dr Carly Crouch, Lecturer in Hebrew Bible, University of Nottingham, on “Israel and the Assyrians”. On …Continue reading →

Science and religion : a natural history TAGS: Divinity | eighteenth-century | natural history | New College Library | rare books | religion | science | Special Collections | University of Edinburgh Today’s Opening Lecture for the 2012-13 academic session at the School of Divinity will be given by Professor Wentzel van Huyssteen of Princeton Theological Seminary, and will launch the new …Continue reading →

New College Library welcomes the Yale-Edinburgh Conference TAGS: Divinity | Funk | Holy Spirit | missions | New College Edinburgh | New College Library | online | Pamphlets | revival | Special Collections | World Christianity The Centre for the Study of World Christianity at the University of Edinburgh is hosting the Yale-Edinburgh Group Conference on the History of the Missionary Movement and World Christianity this …Continue reading →

Researching the motherhood of God TAGS: Church of Scotland | Divinity | hymnbooks | New College Library | research | Theology & Ethics The School of Divinity at New College hosts a colloquium on June 7, 1:00 – 4:30 on Women, Language, and Worship in the Church of Scotland – see the blog or facebook …Continue reading →