CALL FOR PAPERS
Lutheranism and the British Isles
Location: The University of St Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom
Convenors: Dr Brendan N. Wolfe and Andrew F. Simpson
Keynote Speakers: Professor Alec Ryrie (Durham University) and Dr Korey Maas (Hillsdale College)
Date: 15-16 June 2027
Abstract Deadline: 31 December 2026
Notification of Acceptance: 31 January 2027
Contact: [email protected]
We are pleased to announce an interdisciplinary conference on the theme of Lutheranism and the British Isles, exploring its influence across England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales from the Reformation to the present day. We are delighted that our keynote speakers will be Professor Alec Ryrie (Durham University) and Dr Korey Maas (Hillsdale College).
Proposals for twenty-minute papers are welcomed from postgraduate students, early career researchers, and established scholars across history, theology, literature, musicology, and material studies.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words, with a curriculum vitae and a short biography, to [email protected] by 31 December 2026. Successful applicants will be notified by 31 January 2027. Panel proposals of three or four papers are also welcome, and limited support may be available for those who would otherwise be unable to attend.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
· The reception of Luther’s writings across England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales
· Patrick Hamilton and the early Lutheran martyrs of Scotland
· Lutheran influence on the Scottish Reformation
· Lutheran ideas in the Irish Reformation and the early Church of Ireland
· Lutheranism, Bible translation, and evangelical reform in Wales
· Robert Barnes, William Tyndale, and the early English evangelicals
· Lutheran theology in the Thirty-Nine Articles and the Book of Common Prayer
· The Augsburg Confession and confessional writing across the British Isles
· Lutheran print culture and the circulation of evangelical ideas
· Anglo-German dynastic and confessional links
· The Hanoverian succession and the German Lutheran court
· The German Lutheran Chapel Royal and royal chaplaincies
· Pietism, Halle, the SPCK, the Moravians, and early Methodism
· Lutheran church music and its reception across the British Isles
· Lutheranism in the United Kingdom Today
· Scandinavian, Baltic, and German Lutheran diaspora communities
· Lutheran refugees and émigrés after the World Wars
· Anglican–Lutheran ecumenism (Meissen and Porvoo)
· Dietrich Bonhoeffer and British Lutheranism
We look forward to welcoming you to St Andrews — home to Scotland’s first Lutheran martyr, Patrick Hamilton (1504-1528) — for a wide-ranging discussion on Lutheranism in the history of the British Isles.