N. T. Wright will be presenting the 2018 Gifford Lectures, “Discerning the Dawn — History, Eschatology and New Creation”, at the University of Aberdeen. The lectures will take place in the King’s College Conference Centre on successive Monday and Wednesday evenings at 6:00 pm, beginning 12th February and concluding 7th March. The lecture topics are below:
Lecture 1 The Fallen Shrine: Lisbon 1755 and the Triumph of Epicureanism
Lecture 2 The Questioned Book: Critical Scholarship and the Gospels
Lecture 3 The Shifting Sand: The Meanings of ‘History’
Lecture 4 The End of the World? Eschatology and Apocalyptic in Historical Perspective
Lecture 5 The Stone the Builders Rejected: Jesus, the Temple and the Kingdom
Lecture 6 A New Creation: Resurrection and Epistemology
Lecture 7 Broken Signposts? New Answers for the Right Questions
Lecture 8 The Waiting Chalice: Natural Theology and the Missio Dei
For more information, see The Gifford Lectures website./
