Professor George Newlands
Professor of Divinity
contact details
+44 141 330 5297
g.newlands@arts.gla.ac.uk
office hours: 2:00-4:00 Thursdays
about Prof Newlands
Professor of Divinity.
Educated at Edinburgh, (MA, BD, PhD, D Litt.) Heidelberg and Cambridge(MA, Churchill), he has been Principal of Trinity College, Dean of the Faculty of Divinity and Head of Department in Glasgow, and was previously a University Lecturer in Divinity in Cambridge, and Dean of Trinity Hall. He chairs the Theology, Divinity and Religious Studies panel for HEFCE Research Assessment Exercise 2008.Professor Newlands has been a Visiting Professor in Mainz, a Visiting Scholar in Princeton and in Claremont, California, and has given Henson Lectures in Oxford (Generosity and the Christian Future.) He has convened the Panel on Doctrine of the Church of Scotland, served on the Doctrine Commission of the Church of England, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Current project - The Hospitality of God.
The God of Love and Human Dignity- Essays in Honour of George M Newlands, ed. Paul Middleton (T&T Clark, 2007)
research interests
- Modern theology
- Christology
- History of Christian thought
- Theology and human rights
recent publications
Faith and Human Rights ( with Richard Amesbury) (Fortress, January 2008)
Christ and Human Rights (Ashgate 2006)
Traces of Liberality - collected essays (Peter Lang 2006)
The Transformative Imagination - rethinking intercultural theology (Ashgate 2004)
Fifty Key Christian Thinkers (with Peter McEnhill) (Routledge2004)
John and Donald Baillie - Transatlantic Theology (Peter Lang 2002)