William Storrar

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William Storrar
Born
William F. Storrar
NationalityScottish
Ecclesiastical career
ReligionChristianity (Presbyterian)
ChurchChurch of Scotland
Ordained1984
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
Academic work
DisciplineTheology
Sub-disciplinePractical theology
Institutions

William F. Storrar is a Scottish Christian theologian who is the Director of Center of Theological Inquiry, known for his contribution on public theology.[1]

Biography[edit]

He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy degree in practical theology at New College, University of Edinburgh, in 1993. He was ordained a minister in the Church of Scotland in 1984 and has served as a parish minister in Glasgow and Carluke for eight years.[2]

In 1992, he started working as a lecturer in practical theology at the University of Aberdeen, followed by being a senior lecturer at the University of Glasgow in 1998.[2] In 2000, he was appointed Director of Centre for Theology and Public Issues and Chair of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology at New College and has worked until 2005. He was the co-founder of the Global Network for Public Theology. Since 2005, he has taken up the post of Director of the Center of Theological Inquiry.[3]

He was at the editorial board of the International Journal of Public Theology[1] and was the chair of Common Cause at the Church of Scotland in the 1990s.[1]

Selected works[edit]

  • Storrar, William (1982), No Room, No Birth, Some Magi, in Hearn, Sheila G. (ed.). Cencrastus No. 10, Autumn 1982, pp. 3–8, ISSN 0264-0856
  • Storrar, William (1990), Scottish Identity: A Christian Vision. Edinburgh: Handsel. ISBN 9781871828016

Edited works[edit]

  • Storrar, William and Iain R. Torrance (1995). Human Genetics: A Christian Perspective. Edinburgh: St. Andrew Press.
  • Storrar, William and Peter Donald (2003). God in Society: Doing Social Theology in Scotland Today. Edinburgh: Saint Andrew Press. ISBN 9780715208038
  • Storrar, William and Andrew Morton (2004). Public Theology for the 21st Century. T&T Clark. ISBN 9780567088925
  • Storrar, William, Peter J. Casarella and Paul Louis Metzger (2011). A World for All? Global Civil Society in Political Theory and Trinitarian Theology. Grand Rapids, MI: William B Eerdmans. ISBN 9780802827425
  • Storrar, William, Katie Day and Esther McIntosh (2013). Yours the Power: Faith-Based Organizing in the USA. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004246003

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Storrar, William (2007). "2007: A Kairos Moment for Public Theology". International Journal of Public Theology. 1 (1): 5–25. doi:10.1163/156973207X194457. ISSN 1872-5171.
  2. ^ a b "Participants". The Humble Approach Initiative. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  3. ^ Arntzenius, Linda (April 2015). "Center of Theological Inquiry – Where Scholars Take On Life's Big Questions". Princeton Magazine. pp. 66–71. Retrieved 7 January 2020.