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News
'Accountability as Relational Virtue'
Dr Andrew Torrance is to be part of a major new, interdisciplinary, research project at Baylor University in the USA bringing together an interdisciplinary team of scholars from Baylor, St Andrews, Harvard Medical School, and Hope College, with expertise in the fields of philosophy, theology, psychology, psychiatry, sociology, and criminology.
Alexander (Sandy) Wedderburn
We have received the sad news that Prof. Dr Alexander J.M. Wedderburn, who was Lecturer in New Testament at St Mary's from 1974 to 1989, passed away on 31 March 2018 at the age of 76. For an obituary please click the link above.
Science and Religion Summer School 2018
22 June - 12 July 2018. For ages 16 to 18, the International Summer Programme (ISP) offers pupils from around the world the unique opportunity to experience courses taught in the Scottish academic tradition by current academic staff. This course, amongst a range of options, offers students the opportunity to explore the burgeoning field of science and religion. Details, including application, here.
Highlights
Top in the National Student Survey...again
Students in St Mary’s have once again ranked us as the best department in the UK in our subject group - Theology and Religious Studies. As Head of School, Dr Stephen Holmes notes, 'There are many university league tables, and we treat some of them with more than a pinch of salt, but the National Student Survey asks graduating students directly about their experience on their course, and so matters.'
£1.6 million for new Logos Institute
The Faculty has received a £1.6 million grant to launch the Logos Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology. Four new professorial fellows include Oliver Crisp, Stephen Evans, Peter van Inwagen and Michael Rea and a new senior appointment is to be advertised. Six, full-fee doctoral scholarships were available starting 2016. There is also be a new MLitt programme in Analytic and Exegetical Theology.
