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Fall 2025 - Most Anticipated Books for Christian Readers! - Page 3 of 9 - The Englewood Review of Books The second half of 2025 promises a ton of excellent new books! Here are 60+ of our most anticipated books of Fall 2025 for Christian Readers…

From Englewood Review of Books, Prof. Brian Brock's _Joining Creation’s Praise: A Theological Ethic of Creatureliness_ tops the list of most anticipated theological books! Click through to read more:

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Kirby Laing Chair of New Testament Exegesis at University of Aberdeen Apply for the Kirby Laing Chair of New Testament Exegesis role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

Job: Kirby Laing Chair of New Testament Exegesis

University of Aberdeen - Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History @abdndivinity.bsky.social

Closing date 31 August

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNP093/k...

How To Do Christian Ethics Discover how pressing contemporary moral issues can be approached and discussed in a distinct and coherently theological fashion. This book displays a more dir…

New faculty publication!

How to Do Christian Ethics: Living the Grammar of Christian Life Every Day, edited by Brian Brock, Nadine Hamilton, and Daniel R. Patterson.

Click through for more info!

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/how-to-do...

Call for Papers:

Beyond Eurocentrism and Arabocentrism: Race, Ethnicity, and Knowledge Production in the Arabo-Islamic 'Golden Age'

Hosted by DHPA on 12–13 September 2025.

The deadline for abstract proposals is 30 July 2025. Click through for more information:

agya.info/publications...

A green and white advert for the Association for the Study of Death and Society (ASDS) early career mentoring scheme, featuring an enthusiastic quote from a former participant, and the new ASDS logo.

After enthusiastic feedback on the pilot, the
@asdsdeath.bsky.social PGR/ECR 2025-26 mentoring scheme is open for applications - closing 8/9/2025!

Further information is available at deathandsociety.org/mentoring/ - or feel free to get in touch by email.

Come and work with us!

With our vibrant research culture and robust postgraduate research community, we look forward to welcoming a new Kirby Laing Professor of New Testament. Please see the job ad just below for furthers and particulars. Please share widely!

www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/vacanci...

@feministtheology.bsky.social is running their first summer writing room on Wednesday this week (25th) 2-4pm BST

Doesn’t matter what you’re working on, just a couple of hours of dedicated and accountable writing time!

Link sent out via email - sign up to join. All welcome #writing

Calling all alumni!

You're invited to an online event on how postgraduate study can support your goals.

Thur 26 June, 1300-1400
Register: abdn.io/1ug

👉Career benefits of postgrad qualifications — upskilling to career changes
👉Flexible study options
👉Exclusive financial support for alumni

Call for Participants Have you attended a Church of Ireland ordination service? Are you interested in sharing your experiences and insights? This study is for you! It focuses on the experiences of individuals who have attended Church of Ireland ordination services as part of a PhD research project at the University of Aberdeen. It is led by you, aiming to represent how you talk about your experiences of these services in your own words. The focus is on your personal beliefs whether they are a form of Christianity or something else, particularly whether certain actions performed during the ordination you attended made a difference to these. The study will involve a short survey and the possibility of a follow-up interview, all conducted online for your convenience. Who can take part? Adults aged 18 or older Anyone who has attended a Church of Ireland ordination service (including the making of deacons, the ordination of priests/presbyters, or the consecration of bishops – you do not have to know which service to take part) People who do not regularly attend church are particularly welcome What will it involve? Completing a short online survey (approximately 20 minutes) via Microsoft Forms at your convenience Option to participate in a follow-up interview conducted via Microsoft Teams Confidentiality and anonymity: Your responses will be kept confidential and anonymised Only provide your contact details if you agree to follow-up with an interview You can withdraw from the study at any time without explanation Interested in taking part? Please contact me at c.west.24[at]abdn.ac.uk to express your interest or for more information. This study is supervised by Dr Katie Cross who can also be contacted at k.cross[at]abdn.ac.uk with any questions. Your experiences and perspectives are important to me, and I look forward to hearing from you!

Have you attended a Church of Ireland ordination service or know someone who has? I’m conducting a survey as part of my PhD project at @abdndivinity.bsky.social, supervised by the wonderful @drkatiecross.bsky.social, and would love to hear from you! Please get in touch and feel free to share.

It's TEDx talk time 😍

Publication day!

My article, “Introductory Matters: Tracing the Aims of Proverbs 1:1–7 through the Book’s First Collection,” published in SJT, is now up under FirstView

doi.org/10.1017/S003...

The article is a minor rework of a paper I gave last year at the @abdndivinity.bsky.social PGR Symposium

YouTube video by TEDx Talks What do you want to be buried with? | Dr. Jennifer Riley | TEDxAberdeen

You've been waiting for it! Now here it is: Dr. @jen-studies-death.bsky.social's TED talk on Death, Ritual, and Grave Goods!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMlj...

Miroslav Volf delivers his third Aberdeen Gifford Lecture entitled ‘Amor Fati: Nietzsche’s Universal Affirmation and Limited Love’. @abdndivinity.bsky.social @yaledivinityschool.bsky.social

Miroslav Volf continues his 2025 Gifford Lectures in Aberdeen, speaking this evening on ‘Odium Mundi’ with the help of Schopenhauer. @abdndivinity.bsky.social @yaledivinityschool.bsky.social

Are you a student member seeking greater participation in the SCE? Consider nominating yourself to serve on the 2026 Nominating Committee. Check your email for details, which went out on Monday 4/28. (Grad student supervisors: feel free to nominate your own students!)

New alumnus publication! Dr. Nathan McConnell's new monograph will be available at the end of May. Click through to learn more!

www.routledge.com/Prisoners-of...

New Testament and Early Christianity - Online MTh Earn a UK Masters degree in the New Testament and Early Christianity, flexibly, online. Learn with us anywhere and manage your study hours to suit you.

For those who may be looking for Master’s level study by distance, here is some information about the new flexible programme offered by @abdndivinity.bsky.social . There is also a residential M.Th. on.abdn.ac.uk/degrees/new-...

📢 Contributors wanted for practicaltheologyhub.com! 📢

We welcome:
✏️ Short essays, poetry, creative and experiential writing on religious practice (500-2000 words)
🙏 All faith backgrounds, interdisciplinary ideas
📝 Single or co-authored pieces

Interested? DM me or contact editor@biapt.org.

New Testament and Early Christianity - Online MTh Earn a UK Masters degree in the New Testament and Early Christianity, flexibly, online. Learn with us anywhere and manage your study hours to suit you.

Our NEW! masters degree in New Testament and Early Christianity is OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS! Click through now to learn more! (And please share widely!)

on.abdn.ac.uk/degrees/new-...

Image is red and gold artwork - gold in a checkerboard pattern over a red background. It is entitled Resonance of Being - Son and is made with mineral pigments, gold, gesso, and ink on canvas and the artist is Makoto Fujimura. the text of the advert reads 'Gifford Lectures 2025 at Aberdeen: Miroslav Volf, Amor Mundi, God and the Character of our relation to the World.' It also shows an image of Miroslav Volf, and the Aberdeen university logo alongside the Giffords logo.

If you'd like to cross something off of your To Do List this Friday afternoon, it only takes a minute to sign up for the Gifford Lectures 2025... 😉 forms.office.com/e/fnFd4XmGNw

It was an excellent night to be an Aberdeen Divine wearing a black jumpsuit 💃🏼💃🏼

Yay @drkatiecross.bsky.social of course you’re the most inspiring lecturer! You’re amazing - well deserved celebration 🥰

Apologies! We should have tagged them! Congratulations again to our outstanding colleagues!

@drkatiecross.bsky.social

@jen-studies-death.bsky.social

We are ELATED! to celebrate the recognition of Divinity faculty members this year at the @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social excellence awards:

Dr. Jennie Riley for Early Career Public Engagement with Research

Dr. Katie Cross for Most Inspiring Lecturer

CONGRATULATIONS to these well deserved colleagues!

YouTube video by Personalist Manifestos Joining Creation's Praise - A Conversation with Brian Brock

Prof. Brock recently joined Divinity alum Dr. Michael Morelli to chat about his new book, _Joining Creation's Praise: A Theological Ethic of Creatureliness_. Click through to watch/listen!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbZ3...

Waiting, Witnessing, Embodying: A Trauma-informed Approach for Theological Qualitative Research Trauma has become a cultural touchstone and is an increasingly popular topic in theological research. While this is to be welcomed, there is little guidance for trauma researchers in theology, particu...

How can theologians approach #qualitativeresearch safely? My new article offers a #trauma-informed framework prioritising:
👷🏻‍♀️ Researcher + participant safety
🫀 The role of the body
🫶🏻 Practical strategies for ethical, empathetic research
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... (or DM me for access!)

Humanities-discipline Graduates from 2005 are invited to join a 20 year reunion on 9 Aug. A return to campus will be followed by dinner and drinks in the city centre that evening. To join or learn more, email alumni@abdn.ac.uk. We hope you'll be able to join this special anniversary celebration!

image of the university of Aberdeen in the background with layover text: theme confirmed: join us for Miroslav Volf's series: “Amor Mundi: God and the Character of Our Relation to the World”.

Professor Miroslav Volf will speak on the theme: “Amor Mundi: God and the Character of Our Relation to the World”. Don't miss out! Join us for the #GiffordLectures in person or online by registering: forms.office.com/e/fnFd4XmGNw

We are delighted to announce our upcoming series of #AberdeenUniversity #GiffordLectures with Professor Miroslav Volf, which will be delivered between 12th and 20th of May 2025. For registration (including for an online streaming link) and more information see: www.abdn.ac.uk/dhpa/events/...

Prof. Joachim Schaper welcomes speakers and guests to the weekend's proceedings on "The One and the Many" here in the Christ's College Divinity Library.