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According to Wikipedia, David Alexander Syme Fergusson is a Scottish theologian and Presbyterian minister. Since 2021, he has been Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. Early life and education Fergusson was born on 3 August 1956 in Glasgow, Scotland. He studied philosophy at the University of Glasgow, graduating with an undergraduate Master of Arts degree in 1977. He then studied theology at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1980. He then undertook a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Christian philosophy at the University of Oxford; his DPhil was awarded in 1984 for a doctoral thesis titled Realism and Idealism in Christian Interpretation with Special Reference to Bultmann.

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Persons in Relation (2012) (65)
The Blackwell companion to nineteenth-century theology (2010) (19)
HUMANS CREATED ACCORDING TO THE IMAGO DEI: AN ALTERNATIVE PROPOSAL (2013) (18)
The Future as God's Gift : Explorations in Christian Eschatology (2000) (17)
Meaning, Truth and Realism in Bultmann and Lindbeck (1990) (15)
Adoption of e-Infrastructure services: configurations of practice (2010) (14)
Interpreting the Resurrection (1985) (14)
e-Infrastructure development and community engagement (2007) (13)
The Providence of God (2018) (12)
Rereading Paul Together. Protestant and Catholic Perspectives on Justification (2009) (12)
The Cosmos and the Creator: Introduction to the Theology of Creation (1998) (9)
EGEE: building a pan-European grid training organisation (2006) (8)
The Absence of God and Its Contextual Significance for Hume (2013) (8)
Widening Uptake of e Infrastructure Services (2008) (8)
God's Will in a Time of Crisis (1994) (7)
Another Way of Reading Stanley Hauerwas? (1997) (7)
Karl Rahner and the extra-terrestrial intelligence question (2006) (7)
Distributed Computing Education, Part 5: Coming to Terms with Intellectual Property Rights (2008) (6)
Public Theology in the 21st Century (2004) (6)
Predestination: A Scottish Perspective (1993) (6)
John Macmurray: Critical Perspectives (2002) (6)
ACSW Frontiers '06 Proceedings of the 2006 Australasian workshops on Grid computing and e-research (2006) (5)
Paths to wider adoption of e-infrastructure services (2008) (5)
Barth's Resurrection of the Dead: further reflections (2003) (5)
Secularization and Sanctification: A Study of Karl Barth's Doctrine of Sanctification and Its Contextual Application to the Korean Church by Jung Suck Rhee (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1995. 324 pp.) (1999) (4)
The Theology of Providence (2010) (4)
Resource Discovery Services for Grid Computing Training (2007) (4)
Adoption of e-infrastructure services : inhibitors enablers and opportunities (2009) (4)
Types of Natural Theology (2007) (4)
Will the Love of God Finally Triumph (2001) (4)
Distributed Computing Education, Part 1: A Special Case? (2008) (3)
Tolerance and Truth: The Spirit of the Age or the Spirit of God? (2007) (3)
GOD, CHRIST, AND ANIMALS (2014) (3)
Theology and therapy: Maintaining the connection (2013) (3)
The Blackwell Companion to Nineteenth-Century Theology: Fergusson/The Blackwell Companion to Nineteenth-Century Theology (2010) (3)
Torrance as a Scottish Theologian (2010) (3)
The Ascension of Christ: Its Significance in the Theology of T F Torrance (2012) (3)
Scottish philosophical theology 1700-2000 (2007) (3)
Church and theology in enlightenment Scotland. The Popular party, 1740–1800. By John R. McIntosh. (Scottish Historical Review. Monograph Series, 5.) Pp. xi+260. East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1998. £20. 1 86232 098 5 (2000) (2)
The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology: C (2011) (2)
UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2007 (2007) (2)
Are we alone? And does it matter? (2015) (2)
The Cambridge Companion to Reformed Theology (2016) (2)
Distributed Computing Education, Part 2: International Summer Schools (2008) (2)
From distributed computing to distributed learning (2008) (2)
Theology Without Foundations: Religious Practice and the Future of Theological Truth . Edited by Stanley Hauerwas, Nancey Murphy & Mark Nation. Nashville, Abingdon Press, 1994. Pp. 359. (1999) (2)
Karl Barth's doctrine of creation: Church bells beyond the stars (2016) (1)
The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology: F (2011) (1)
Fergusson's Scottish proverbs : from the original print of 1641 : together with a larger manuscript collection of about the same period hitherto unpublished (1)
Theology of Worship: A Reformed Perspective (2009) (1)
Distributed Computing Education, Part 4: Training Infrastructure (2008) (1)
Fostering e-Infrastructures: from user-designer relations to community engagement (2008) (1)
Scottish Philosophical Theology (2007) (1)
Reformed Theology in the British Isles (2016) (1)
Reformed theology and scholasticism (2016) (1)
Scottish Theology (2019) (1)
Education and Training in Data Handling and Analysis at the Interface Between e-Infrastructure and Reseachers (2013) (1)
Reformed theology, mission, and ecumenism (2016) (1)
The Influence of Macmurray on Scottish Theology (2007) (1)
Theology and Laughter (2007) (1)
CALLUM G. BROWN, The Death of Christian Britain: Understanding Secularisation 1800–2000 (2001) (1)
The Evolution of Rationality: Interdisciplinary Essays in Honor of J Wentzel Van Huyssteen (2007) (1)
Distributed Computing Education, Part 3: The Winter School Online Experience (2008) (1)
The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology: G (2011) (1)
The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology: T (2011) (0)
DEVELOPMENT OF CURRICULA FOR E-SCIENCE: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES (2009) (0)
Symposium on Project Management in e-Science (2008) (0)
A subordinate standard: Where next? (2019) (0)
The History of Scottish Theology, Volume II: From the Early Enlightenment to the Late Victorian Era (2019) (0)
The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology: S (2011) (0)
Book Review: Adam Smith as Theologian: Paul Oslington (ed.), Adam Smith as Theologian (2014) (0)
Book Reviews (1999) (0)
‘John Macmurray's Philosophy of the Family’ (1996) (0)
The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology: D (2011) (0)
Strategies and Policies to Support and Advance Education in e-Science (2009) (0)
The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology: P (2011) (0)
Theology in lockdown (2021) (0)
Book review: Covenant, Community and the Common Good (2005) (0)
The Influence of John Macmurray on Scottish Theology (2007) (0)
Loved by the Other: Creatio ex nihilo as an Act of Divine Love (2015) (0)
The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology: V (2011) (0)
Theological Dialogue Between Orthodox and Reformed Churches Volume 2, edited by Thomas F. Torrance (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1993. xxiv + 232 pp. hb. £15) (1995) (0)
Karl Rahner and the Intelligence Question (2006) (0)
Book Reviews : Christian Eschatology (1990) (0)
Barth and T. F. Torrance (2019) (0)
Acknowledgement to assessors (1995) (0)
Re-usability vs. customization: curriculum design for the International Winter School in Grid Computing ’08 (2008) (0)
A sceptic for our times (2012) (0)
Reformed theology in North America (2016) (0)
Modern Christology: Mackintosh, Baillie, and Macquarrie (2019) (0)
History, Tradition, and Skepticism: The Patterns of Nineteenth-Century Theology (2019) (0)
The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology: References (2011) (0)
John Baillie: Orthodox Liberal (1993) (0)
Jim Mackey on Theology and Jesus (2009) (0)
Moral Fragments and Moral Community . By Larry L. Rasmussen. Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 1993. Pp. 176. No price. (1996) (0)
Sources of Providentialism (2018) (0)
Stephen Bullivant and Michael Ruse (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Atheism (Oxford: OUP, 2013), pp. 763. £95.00. (2016) (0)
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Edited by Paul Avis. London, Darton, Longman and Todd, 1993. Pp. 186. £11.95. (1996) (0)
Providence (2019) (0)
Theology after the Storm: Reflections on the Upheavals in Modern Theology and Culture. By John McIntyre. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997. Pp. vii + 306. No price. (2001) (0)
Book reviews (2002) (0)
Counterpoint: If Libraries Don't Change, They Won't Be the Place to Get the Books (2009) (0)
OTHER GODS (2008) (0)
Bultmann: Towards a Critical Theology . By Gareth Jones. Cambridge, Polity Press, 1991. Pp. viii + 219. £29.50. (1994) (0)
Is God Real?Edited by Joseph Runzo. Basingstoke & London, Macmillan Press, 1993. Pp. xxiv & 216. £40.00. (1999) (0)
George Hunsinger, Disruptive Grace: Studies in the Theology of Karl Barth (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2000), pp. xi + 375. £25.99. (2003) (0)
Book Review: The Face of God, written by Roger Scruton (2015) (0)
David Wilkinson, Science, Religion and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Oxford: OUP, 2013), pp. xii + 228. £25.00. (2016) (0)
Beyond Theologies of Resentment: An Appreciation of Jeffrey Stout's Democracy and Tradition (2006) (0)
Risen Indeed: Making Sense of the Resurrection . By Stephen T. Davis. London, SPCK, 1993. Pp. xii + 219. £9.99. (1999) (0)
In Memoriam: Rev. Professor Duncan Baillie Forrester (1933–2016) (2017) (0)
Politics, Society, and Law (2020) (0)
Graeme Finlay, Stephen Lloyd, Stephen Pattemore & David Swift, Debating Darwin. Two Debates: Is Darwinism True and Does It Matter? (Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2009), 144 pp., £8.99 (ISBN: 9781842276198). (2012) (0)
Paradise Lost and Regained: An Ancient Symmetry Assessed (1994) (0)
Holding church, academy and society together: Joanna Leidenhag in conversation with David Fergusson (2022) (0)
The Church as Polis: From Political Theology to Theological Politics as Exemplified by Jürgen Moltmann and Stanley Hauerwas . By Arne Rasmusson. Lund University Press, University of Notre Dame Press, 1994 and 1996. Pp. 418. No price. (2000) (0)
The Structure of Resurrection Belief. by Peter Carnley. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1987. Pp. 394. £35·00. (1989) (0)
Nonfoundationalism . By John Thiel., Minneapolis, Augsburg Fortress, 1994. Pp. xii+123. £7.00. (1996) (0)
Karl Barth, Biblical and Evangelical Theologian by T. F. Torrance (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1990, 256 pp. £14.95) (1992) (0)
Reformed Reader. Volume 1: Classical Beginnings 1519–1799. Edited by William Stacy Johnson & John H. Leith. Westminster and John Knox Press, Louisville, 1993. $30.00. (1999) (0)
Moral Leadership in a Postmodern Age, by Robin Gill. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1997. 174 pp. pb. £12.95. ISBN 0-567-08550-3 (1999) (0)
Ian A. McFarland, From Nothing: A Theology of Creation. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2014, xvii + 212pp. $35.00 (2017) (0)
Jesus Risen . By Gerald O'Collins. London, Darton, Longman & Todd, 1987. Pp. 233. £6·95. (1989) (0)
Bryan D. Spinks, Scottish Presbyterian Worship: Proposals for Organic Change, 1843 to the Present Day (2022) (0)
Calvin in Scotland (2010) (0)
Scotland and the Netherlands: Reformed Crosscurrents (2013) (0)
Modern Christology (2019) (0)
The McIntyre Papers (2007) (0)
Redemptive Transformation in Practical Theology: Edited by Dana R. Wright and John D. Kuentzel, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004. 455 pp. $40.00 (2006) (0)
Book Review: Interpreting God and the Postmodern Self (1996) (0)
Reckoning with Barth edited by Nigel Biggar (Oxford: Mowbray, 1988. 215 pp. £25.00) (1992) (0)
Barth’s Ethics of Reconciliation by John Webster (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 238 pp.) (1999) (0)
Book Reviews : Virtuous Passions: The Formation of Christian Character, by G. Simon Harak. Mahwah N.J., Paulist Press, 1993. 180pp pb. US$11.95 (1996) (0)
Index of Authors (2001) (0)
Barth. By John Webster. (Outstanding Christian Thinkers.) Pp. xvi+181. London–New York: Continuum, 2000. £25 (cloth), £12.99 (paper). 0 8264 5078 4; 0 8264 5079 2 (2002) (0)
God and the Processes of Reality. By David A. Pailin. London, Routledge, 1989. Pp. x + 235. £29.95. (1993) (0)
Barth, Derrida and the Language of Theology by Graham Ward (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xvi + 258 pp. hb. £35. ISBN 0-521-47290-3) (2001) (0)
Michael Polanyi by Drusilla Scott (London: SPCK, 1996. viii + 215 pp. £12.99. ISBN 0-281-04815-0) (2001) (0)
The History of Scottish Theology, Volume III: The Long Twentieth Century (2019) (0)
Interpreting the story of creation:: A case study in the dialogue between theology and science (2012) (0)
Nothing Greater, Nothing Better: Theological Essays on the Love of God (2001) (0)
The History of Scottish Theology, Volume 1: Celtic Origins to Reformed Orthodoxy (2019) (0)
Book Review: Providence: Vernon White, Purpose and Providence: Taking Soundings in Western Thought, Literature and Theology (2017) (0)
Dynamics of Difference (2015) (0)
The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology: Q (2011) (0)
Loving God with our Minds: Festshrift for Wallace Alston (2004) (0)
Schools of Faith: Essays on Theology, Ethics and Education (2019) (0)
Education and Training Task Force Report (2008) (0)
The Shape of Soteriology by John McIntyre (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1992. 144 pp. hb. £14.95. ISBN 0–567–09165–7) (1995) (0)
The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology: H (2011) (0)
Continental cross-currents: the influence of Germany on Scottish theology (2014) (0)
A Theology of Hope (2020) (0)
The Reception of Darwin (2019) (0)
Rethinking Providence: A Choice of Difficulties? (2021) (0)
Book Review: Overview of Nonconformity: Stephen Pope (ed.), T&T Clark Companion to Nonconformity (2015) (0)
Scottish Philosophy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries ed. by Gordon Graham (review) (2017) (0)
Book Reviews : Disestablishment of the Church of England (2004) (0)
Christian Theology: 21st Century Challenges (2015) (0)
The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology: O (2011) (0)
Torrance on the Ascension (2010) (0)
Alexander S. Jensen, Divine Providence and Human Agency: Trinity, Creation and Freedom (2015) (0)
The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology: N (2011) (0)
Humility of the Eternal Son (2022) (0)
Book Review: THE RESURRECTION IN MODERN THEOLOGY Paul D. Molnar, Incarnation and Resurrection (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2007. £19.99. pp. 418. ISBN 978—0—8028—0998—8) (2008) (0)
GENESIS Social Simulation Modelling Progress (2010) (0)
Theology Today – Currents and Directions (2011) (0)
The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology: R (2011) (0)
‘Predestination : Blessing or Curse of Scottish Theology?’ (1992) (0)
Book Review: Moral Passion, Faith, and Ethics (2019) (0)
The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology: Preface (2011) (0)
The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology: M (2011) (0)
Thomas F. Torrance as a Scottish Theologian (2020) (0)
The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology: W (2011) (0)
Book Review: Christus Praesens (1995) (0)
Reformed theology in Africa (2016) (0)
A Theology on Its Way? Essays on Karl Barth by Richard H. Roberts (Edinburgh: T. T. Clark, 1991. pp. xvi + 208. hb. £17.95. ISBN 0–567–09585–1) (1994) (0)
The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology: Frontmatter (2011) (0)
The Kirk and Its Contribution to Scottish Identity (1998) (0)
Book Reviews : To Rehabilitate Hans Küng (1994) (0)
The Last Judgement (2015) (0)
The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology: B (2011) (0)
Explorer Another Way of Reading Stanley Hauerwas ? (2018) (0)
Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters (2007) (0)
John and Donald Baillie: Selected Devotional Writings (1996) (0)
The JISC e-Infrastructure Community Engagement Projects (2008) (0)
The place of Christian theology in the academy today (2021) (0)
The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology: L (2011) (0)
The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology: U (2011) (0)
Book Reviews : Theology Today (1989) (0)
Worship and Liturgy in Context: Studies of Theology and Practice (2009) (0)
Blackwell Companion to Nineteenth-Century Theology: (The Great Theologians) (2010) (0)
Darwinism: How Much Does It Explain? (2009) (0)
Reformed theology in continental Europe (2016) (0)
The Future of the Kirk: Theology in Scotland Occasional Paper (1997) (0)
Proceedings for the 5th International Conference on e-Social Science (2009) (0)
The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology: J (2011) (0)
The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology: E (2011) (0)
Introduction: Very Rev. Professor Iain R. Torrance (2019) (0)
The Warfare of Argument: Theology in Edinburgh Across Four Centuries (2000) (0)
Providence after Darwin (2009) (0)
John Macquarrie as Interpreter of Bultmann (2006) (0)

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