Call for papers
The second Scottish Dogmatics Conference will be held from 10-12 June 2026 at the University of St Andrews. The theme of the conference is “The God Who Speaks,” and the plenary sessions will feature Ellen Davis (Duke), David Fergusson (Cambridge), Janet Soskice (Cambridge/Duke), Andrew Torrance (St Andrews), and Kevin Vanhoozer (TEDS).
The organizers of the conference invite the submission of paper proposals on this theme from postgraduate students in doctoral programs and those with completed doctoral degrees. We are especially seeking papers that offer theologically constructive accounts of the conference theme, as the focus of the conference is on constructive dogmatics and systematic theology, rather than upon exegesis, the history of doctrine, or social scientific approaches to religion. Papers that engage the Christian tradition as a means of theological retrieval are most welcome, and preference will be given to papers that offer constructive proposals rather than merely critiques of existing ideas.
Paper proposals of no more than 200 words in length should be sent by December 31, 2025 to scottishdogmatics@gmail.com. The actual papers should be approximately 3,500 words in length (to be delivered in 30–35 minutes with 5–10 minutes for Q&A). Some of the papers delivered at the conference will be selected for publication in the conference volume together with the five plenary papers.
Plenary Speakers
Ellen Davis
"Preaching and the Art of Silence"
David Fergusson
"Word and Spirit as the Two Hands of God: An Ancient Image Reassessed"
Janet Soskice
"Calling Upon the NAME of the LORD"
Andrew Torrance
"How Might Churches Hear God’s Voice When It Challenges Tradition?"
Kevin Vanhoozer
"'Like the Roar of Many Waters’: A Dogmatic Account of the Voice from Heaven"
Conference Organizers
Oliver Crisp (PhD, University of London; DLitt University of Aberdeen) is Professor of Analytic Theology and co-director of the Logos Institute in the School of Divinity, University of St Andrews. He is the author of several books, including Metatheology, Participation and Atonement, Approaching the Atonement, and Analyzing Doctrine. He is also the co-founder of the Los Angeles Theology Conference.
Paul T. Nimmo (PhD, University of Edinburgh) is Professor and King’s Chair of Systematic Theology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and the co-director of the Aberdeen Centre for Protestant Theology. He is the author of Being in Action: The Theological Shape of Barth’s Ethical Vision and Barth: A Guide for the Perplexed as well as the co-editor of Kenosis: The Self-Emptying of Christ in Scripture and Theology, The Oxford Handbook of Karl Barth, and The Cambridge Companion to Reformed Theology. He is also the senior editor of the International Journal of Systematic Theology.
