Philip G. Ziegler is a Canadian-born theologian who holds a personal chair as Professor in Christian
Dogmatics at the
University of Aberdeen.[1] He is author of numerous scholarly articles, books, and has led various research projects within contemporary dogmatics, the theology of
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, as well as theological reflection on New Testament
apocalyptic. He maintains a personal website: Theologia Borealis.[2]
In 2000/01 he was a Junior Fellow of
Massey College in the University of Toronto, and in 2001/02 he held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Religion.[4]
From 2002 to 2005 he taught at the
Atlantic School of Theology in
Halifax, Canada as assistant professor of systematic theology. In January 2006 he joined the faculty of the University of Aberdeen in Divinity & Religious Studies. Since then, he has taught
systematic theology and Christian doctrine at the University of Aberdeen where he was promoted to a personal chair in 2016. Ziegler is also a Senior Fellow of the
Higher Education Academy, UK.
Professional activities
Together with
Paul Nimmo and
Tom Greggs, Ziegler co-founded and co-directs the Aberdeen Centre for Protestant Theology,[5] which aims at facilitating, coordinating and promoting advanced research in the field of Christian theology. The center hosts lectures and seminars from current voices who offer critical engagement as well as positive development of Protestant thought in service of the Church.
Along with others, he helps coordinate the 'Explorations in Theology and Apocalyptic'[6] working group at the annual
AAR /
SBL meetings.
Ziegler is editor-in-chief of Brill Companions to Modern Theology,[7] and an associate editor of the Journal of Reformed Theology.[8]
He is co-editor of the T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology series (along with Ian MacFarland and Ivor Davidson),[9] and of the T&T Clark New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics (along with Jennifer McBride and Michael Mawson).[10]