David Scott Robinson

New College, University of Mound Place, Edinburgh, EH1 2LX [email protected] +1-604-226-9890

Education

Ph.D. ; Systematic Theology & Ethics 2014 – 2017 Disruption of the Word: Revelatory Community in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Reception of G.W.F. Hegel Supervisor: Professor David Fergusson Examiners: Professor Oliver O’Donovan, Professor Ian McFarland Viva Date: January 2017 M.Div. Regent College, University of British Columbia; Anglican Studies 2004 – 2008 B.A. Briercrest College, Saskatchewan; Biblical Studies & Humanities 1998 – 2003

Research Grants & Awards

$40,000 Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council Canada 2015-2017 $2,150 Archival Research Grant, International Bonhoeffer Society 2015-2016 €1,800 Language Study Bursary, Fondation Catholique Écossaise 2015 £8,000 Doctoral Scholarship, University of Edinburgh, School of Divinity 2014-2015 £11,000 Theological Ethics Scholarship, 2012-2013

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

‘A Cleaving Mind: Hegel and Bonhoeffer on the Fall into Knowledge,’ Modern Theology 32, no. 4 (October 2016): 544-68. ‘Confessing Race: Towards a Global Ecclesiology after Bonhoeffer and Du Bois,’ Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 36, no. 2 (2016): 121-39. with Ryan Tafilowski, ‘Conflict & Concession: Nationality in the Pastorate for Althaus and Bonhoeffer,’ Scottish Journal of Theology 70 (Forthcoming, 2017). ‘Peccatorum Communio: Intercession in Bonhoeffer’s Use of Hegel,’ Studies in Christian Ethics 28:1 (February 2015): 86-100.

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Book Reviews

Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit: The Idealistic Logic of Modern Theology by Gary Dorrien, The Expository Times 127:9 (June 2016), 460-461. Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: The Harlem Renaissance and an Ethic of Resistance by Reggie Williams, Political Theology 17:2 (2016), 212-14. Politics in Friendship: A Theological Account by Guido De Graaff, Studies in Christian Ethics 29:1 (February 2016), 102-6. God, Sex, and Gender by Adrian Thatcher, Studies in Christian Ethics 27:2 (May 2014), 243-7.

Public Essays with Jeff Liou, ‘Our Racist Inheritance: A Report from the Princeton Conference on Faith & Race,’ Comment: Public Theology for the Common Good, online journal (May 14, 2015). ‘A Resilient Public Voice: Rowan Williams in Faith’s Argument,’ Comment: Public Theology for the Common Good, online journal (February 8, 2013). with Stuart Miles, ‘God(s): A User’s Guide: Responding to the Canadian Museum of Civilization Exhibit,’ Comment: Public Theology for the Common Good, online journal (December 21, 2011). ‘Forgetting Ourselves in a Function: W.H. Auden on the Good Society’s Friday,’ Comment: Public Theology for the Common Good (Fall 2011), 62-67.

Conference & Seminar Presentations

Is Christ Divided? Racial Lines in Bonhoeffer’s Work with Hegel & Du Bois July 2016 ‘Engaging Bonhoeffer in a Global Era,’ International Bonhoeffer Congress Basel, Switzerland Confessing Race: Towards a Global Ecclesiology after Bonhoeffer & Du Bois January 2016 ‘Humanity and the Global Future’ Society of Christian Ethics / Muslim Ethics / Jewish Ethics (US) Toronto, Canada Bonhoeffer’s Ecclesiology, Idealism, and the ‘Color Line’ April 2015 ‘Faith & Race,’ Kuyper Centre for Public Theology Princeton Theological Seminary Split Cognisance: Bonhoeffer Reads Genesis After Hegel April 2015 ‘Thinking the Church Today,’ Society for the Study of Theology (UK) University of Nottingham Peccatorum Communio: Intercession in Bonhoeffer’s Use of Hegel September 2014 ‘Sin & Christian Ethics,’ Society for the Study of Christian Ethics (UK) By the Lips of Foreigners: Ecclesial Speech and the Politics of Recognition May 2014 ‘Migration, Faith, & Action: Shifting the Discourse,’ Las Casas Institute University of Oxford

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Gifford Lectures Respondent November 2013 Rowan Williams, ‘Making Representations’ Theology & Ethics Research Seminar, University of Edinburgh

Teaching & Editing

Visiting Lecturer, University of Edinburgh God in Philosophy: Plato to Hume Winter 2017 Introduction to Christian Theology: Doctrines & Debates Fall 2016 Tutor, University of Edinburgh 2014 – 2016 Ethics and Society; Atheism in Debate God in Philosophy; Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding Associate Tutor, Scottish Episcopal Institute 2016 – Present Introduction to Christian Ethics Instructor, Regent College Distance Education 2014 – Present The Christian Mind (John Stackhouse) Devotional Use of the Psalms in Christian History (James Houston) Tell It Slant: Parables as Spiritual Direction (Eugene Peterson) Editorial Assistant, University of Edinburgh 2014 - 2015 David Fergusson & Paul Nimmo, eds., Cambridge Companion to Reformed Theology David Fergusson, Creation: A Theological Guide (Eerdmans)

Conference Organisation & Knowledge Exchange

Blog Host, Gifford Lectures 2016 ‘Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism,’ featuring Kathryn Tanner Business School, University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Conference Convener, SSCE 2013 – 2015 ‘Creatures & the Ethics of Consumption,’ featuring David Clough New College, University of Edinburgh, March 2015 ‘Power & Authority in Ethics,’ featuring Esther Reed New College, University of Edinburgh, April 2014 Organising Committee Member, The Abbey Summer School 2013 - 2015

Other Employment

Priest, Non-Stipendiary, St. Martin of Tours Episcopal Church, Edinburgh 2016 – Present Writer & Consultant, OneSixtyFive Communications, Ottawa, ON 2011 – 2013 Assistant Minister, St. Alban’s Anglican Church, Ottawa, ON 2008 – 2011

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Academic Membership

International Dietrich Bonhoeffer Society, Society for the Study of Christian Ethics (UK), Society for the Study of Theology (UK), Society of Christian Ethics (US)

Languages

French, Intermediate German, Reading Knowledge Biblical Greek & Hebrew, Reading Knowledge

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