The United Kingdom is now in the final stages of an election campaign in which two avowedly nationalist political parties – the Scottish National Party and the United Kingdom Independence Party – seem set to re-configure the map of British politics. They will attract numerous Christian votes, but nationalism and Christian principle are uneasy bedfellows. Continue reading
I’m excited to report that, starting the academic year of 2015-2016, we will be offering a new graduate course entitled ‘Theologies of World Christianity’. It will mainly be aimed at graduate students of our World Christianity cohort (MTh/MSc), but open to other graduate students in the School of Divinity and beyond.1 The new course attempts to introduce students to the wide variety of Christian theologies that have been forming around the world, with particular focus on more recent developments in contexts such as Asia, Africa, and Latin America – with some references also to Europe and North America. Continue reading
by David C. Kirkpatrick
Historiography on Latin American Christianity in the 1970s and 1980s was essentially a monologue on liberation theology. In the last two decades, studies on Pentecostalism have exploded, joining liberation theology on stage. 
These two strands of historiography have been largely understood in terms of a binary, Catholic-Protestant divide: liberation theology as rooted in the former, and Pentecostalism as a Protestant alternative. Professor Brian Stanley gave a paper this week in the History of Christianity seminar that challenged many widely held assumptions regarding liberation theology. I will use this seminar as a springboard for discussing new currents in the study of Latin American social theology and a solution to the historiographical islands that often give rise to partial or inaccurate narratives. Continue reading
Chilembwe Re-Visited
A one-day symposium to mark the centenary of the
Chilembwe Rising in Nyasaland in 1915
Date: 7th February 2015, 10am – 4:15pm
Place: New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh
Cost: £5 registration (on the day). Bring your own lunch. Tea and coffee will be provided.
Speakers:
Plus Closing Panel Discussion
Co-sponsored by: Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, and the Scotland-Malawi Partnership
Further Details from Jean at: j.reynolds@ed.ac.uk