Visit to Bell Baxter High School
Eric Priest, John Swinton, Sally Mapstone and Andrew Torrance
Dinner guests with John Swinton
Lecture
Questions and answer session
Background
Professor John Swinton is a Scottish theologian. He is the Chair in Divinity and Religious Studies at the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, University of Aberdeen.
He is founder of the university’s Centre for Spirituality, Health and Disability. He is an ordained minister of the Church of Scotland and Master of Christ’s College, the university’s theological college. Swinton is a major figure in the development of disabilty theology.
Professor John Swinton has just won a major literary prize as winner of the Michael Ramsey Prize for his book Dementia: Living in the Memories of God. See also the Michael Ramsay Prize website and article by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
