The Reverend Professor David Fergusson, FRSE, Professor of Divinity and Principal of New College in the University of Edinburgh, will preach the Hulsean Sermon in Great St Mary's, the University Church, at 11.15 a.m. on Sunday, 3 March.

This Sermon, on 'The Truth and Excellence of Revealed Religion, or the Evidence of Christianity' originates in the will of John Hulse, of St John's College, who died in 1790.

Professor Fergusson was educated in the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Oxford, served for several years as a parish minister in the Church of Scotland, and was formerly Professor of Systematic Theology in the University of Aberdeen.

He researches Christian doctrine, ethics, and the history of Reformed theology, especially in Scotland.

Having served as President of the Society for the Study of Theology 2000-2002, he is a director and editorial board member of the Scottish Journal of Theology.

From 2005 to 2008 he chaired the UK Association of University Departments of Theology and Religious Studies and from 2010 until 2012 he was the principal investigator for an AHRC/ESRC funded project on Christianity, Psychotherapy and Spirituality in Scotland from 1945 to 2000.

David Fergusson has delivered the Cunningham Lectures (Edinburgh), the Bampton Lectures (Oxford), the Gifford Lectures (Glasgow) and the Warfield Lectures (Princeton).

His recent publications include Church, State and Civil Society (CUP 2004) and Faith and Its Critics (OUP 2009). He was a co-editor of the Cambridge Dictionary of Theology (CUP 2011).

All are welcome and there will be a wine-reception in Michaelhouse afterwards for those present.

Members of the University attending should wear their gowns.

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