Professor Philip G. Ziegler

Upcoming speaking engagements include:

• I will be a respondent to papers on ‘Karl Barth and Christian Nationalism’ and also contribute to a panel on ‘The State and Future of Bonhoeffer Studies’ at the AAR / SBL annual meeting in Denver, CO, November 21-24, 2026.
• I will present a paper entitled ‘Getting Reacquainted with the Devil: Some Remarks on Bible and Theology’ to the Scripture and Doctrine Seminar, on Friday, 20 November 2026, as part of the AAR / SBL annual meeting in Denver, CO.

Recent speaking engagements have included:

• I gave the Christian Doctrine Lecture at the annual summer conference of the Tyndale Fellowship, 1-3 July, 2026. Details here.
• I spoke on the theme of ‘J. Louis Martyn’s Legacy for Christian Theology Today’, as part of The Drumwright Colloquium, Baylor University, Waco, TX, 13-15 October 2025.
• I took part in a panel session engaging with my new book, God’s Adversary and Ours: A Brief Theology of the Devil, co-sponsored by the Reformed Theology and History Group at the annual meeting of the AAR / SBL in Boston, MA, November 22-25, 2025. Details of the session are here.
• I gave a plenary address entitled, ‘Hope against Hope: The Shape of Christian Hope and Poltics’, at the meeting of the Karl Barth Tagung on the theme ‘Christliche Hoffnung in der Krise’, Basel, Switzerland, 14-17 July 2025.
• I presented a public lecture entitled ‘They Bear a Dignity Not Their Own: Saving Grace and the Nature of Human Dignity’, to the Theology Faculty of the University of Basel, 26 March 2025.
• I was an invited speaker at a conference, ‘The Church, the Pastor, and Resonance in an Accelerated Age: Theological Conversations with Hartmut Rosa’, hosted by the Center for Barth Studies, Princeton Theological Seminary,23–24 September 2024. Details here.