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University of Edinburgh Divinity School
New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh, EH1 2LX, UK
Phone: +44 131 650 8900
Fax:  +44 131 650 7952

http://www.div.ed.ac.uk/

Scholars Involved

The Rev. Prof. Oliver O’Donovan, FBA, Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology

Prof. David Fergusson, FRSE, Professor of Systematic Theology

Prof. Paul Foster, Senior Lecturer in New Testament Language, Literature & Theology

Prof. Larry Hurtado, FRSE, Professor of New Testament Language, Literature and Theology

The Rev. Prof. Oliver O’Donovan FBA

Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology

New College, Mound Place
Edinburgh EH1 2LZ

Phone: +44-131-650-8953


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Homepage:http://www.div.ed.ac.uk/donovan

Research Profile

Conceptual foundations of Moral Theology and Christian Ethics, Christian moral reasoning in relation to Theology and Philosophy, History of Christian Ethics, Moral Thought of Augustine of Hippo, Political Thought of Hugo Grotius, Christian Political Thought (contemporary and historical)

Teaching Profile

Christian Ethics, Christian Political Thought

Selected Publications

Resurrection and Moral Order: An Outline for Evangelical Ethics. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans/Leicester: I.V.P.-Apollos, 1986, 1994

The Desire of the Nations: Rediscovering the Roots of Political Theology. Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Common Objects of Love: Moral Reflection and the Shaping of Community. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002.

The Ways of Judgment. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005.

Prof. David Fergusson, FRSE

Professor of Divinity, Head of the School of Divinity

New College, Mound Place
Edinburgh EH1 2LZ

Phone: +44 (0)131 650 8912

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Homepage: http://www.div.ed.ac.uk/davidferguss

Research Profile 

Prof. Fergusson's research interests include issues in Christian doctrine, theological ethics and the history of Reformed theology, especially in its Scottish context.

Teaching Profile

Scottish Theology
Religion and Science in the History of the Christian Tradition
Selected Texts in Systematic Theology (Reading Group for Doctoral Candidates)
Doctrine of Creation
Church, Sacraments and Ministry

Selected Publications

Church, State and Civil Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

John Macmurray: Critical Perspectives. David Fergusson and Nigel Dower, eds. New York: Peter Lang, 2002.

The Future as God's Gift: Explorations in Christian Eschatology. David Fergusson and Marcel Sarot, eds. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2000.

The Cosmos and the Creator: Introduction to the Theology of Creation. London: SPCK, 1998.

Community, Liberalism and Christian Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Christ, Church and Society: Essays on John Baillie and Donald Baillie. 2nd ed. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2004.

Prof. Paul Foster

Senior Lecturer in New Testament Language, Literature & Theology

New College, Mound Place
Edinburgh EH1 2LZ
Phone: +44 (0)131 650 8917

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Homepage: http://www.div.ed.ac.uk/pfoster

Research Profile

My doctoral research focused upon Matthew's gospel and the community for whom he wrote. I was interested in the way the source material the evangelist inherited was reshaped to address the pastoral and pedagogical needs of his fledgling community and the issues they were facing. Building upon this research, my interest is now developing in the area of non-canonical gospels. Current Research areas include the gospels, the synoptic problem and Q, Judaism in the Greco-Roman world, the gospel of Peter, textual criticism, Ignatius of Antioch.

Teaching Profile

New Testament (particularly Synoptic Gospels), Koine Greek, Textual Criticism, Non-canonical gospels.

Selected Publications

Community, Law and Mission in Matthew's Gospel. WUNT II, 177, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004.

The Gospel of Peter: An Introduction and Commentary. Oxford: OUP, 2009.

ed.: The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers. London: Continuum, 2006.

ed. with Sara Parvis: Justin and his Worlds. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007.

ed.: The Non-Canonical Gospels. London: Continuum, 2008.

The Apocryphal Gospels: A Very Short Introduction, vol. 201. Oxford: OUP, 2009.

ed. with John Kloppenborg et al.: New Studies in the Synoptic Problem. Leuven: Peeters, 2009.

"Passion Traditions in the Gospel of Peter," in: A. Merkt et al. (eds.): The Reception and Development of Early Christian Passion Traditions. WUNT, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009 (forthcoming).

"Prophets and Prophetism in the Gospel of Matthew', in: K. Zamfir et al. (eds.): Prophets and Prophetism in Jewish and Early Christian Tradition. WUNT, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009 (forthcoming).

"Marcion: His Life, Context, and Theological Challenge," in The Expository Times 121 (2009) (forthcoming).

Prof. Larry Hurtado, FRSE

Professor of New Testament Language, Literature and Theology

New College, Mound Place
Edinburgh EH1 2LZ

Phone: +44 (0)131 650 8920

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Homepage: http://www.div.ed.ac.uk/larryhurtado

Research Profile

Gospels (esp. Gospel of Mark), Apostle Paul, Early Christology, Jewish Background of the New Testament, New Testament Textual Criticism, Early Christian Manuscripts.

Teaching Profile

Biblical Studies, New Testament and Christian Origins, Christian Religion of the First Two Centuries, Religious Environment of Early Christianity, Jewish Religion of the Second Temple Period.

Selected Publications 

The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006.

How on Earth did Jesus Become a God? Historical Questions about Earliest Devotion to Jesus. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005.

"P45 and the Textual History of the Gospel of Mark," in C. Horton, ed., The Earliest Gospels, The Origins and Transmission of the Earliest Christian Gospels: The Contribution of the Chester Beatty Gospel Codex P45. JSNT Supplements 30, London: T&T Clark International/Continuum, 2004: 132-48.

"Does Philo Help Explain Early Christianity?" in R. Deines/K.-W. Niebuhr, eds., Philo und das Neue Testament. Tuebingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2004: 73-92.

"Jesus' Death as Paradigmatic in the New Testament," Scottish Journal of Theology 57 (2004), 413-33.

Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003.

"Homage to the Historical Jesus and Early Christian Devotion," Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 1 (2003), 131-46.

At the Origins of Christian Worship: The Context and Character of Earliest Christian Devotion (the 1999 Didsbury Lectures). Carlisle: Paternoster Press, 1999/Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000. 

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The Rev. Professor Oliver O’Donovan, FBA, Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology

Prof. David Fergusson, FRSE, Professor of Systematic Theology

Prof. Paul Foster, Senior Lecturer in New Testament Language, Literature & Theology 

Prof. Larry Hurtado, FRSE, Professor of New Testament Language, Literature and Theology