Dr Dafydd Mills Daniel, Lecturer in Divinity, School of Divinity, St Andrew’s University, will offer the Tenth Annual Scottish Episcopal Institute Lecture on Thursday 30 October at 5pm via Zoom, entitled, ‘Scottish Theology and Scot-Land’.

The majority of private land in Scotland is owned by just a few hundred wealthy individuals and international corporations. It was in response to the concentrated ownership of Scot-land that the Scottish Land Commission was established in 2017. This lecture will argue that it is possible to trace the language used in recent Scottish Land Commission policy documents to two competing theological discourses within the Scottish Enlightenment, in line with fact that the Scottish Enlightenment was not, as is often supposed, an era of secular philosophy verses Calvinist theology, but in fact a competition between two opposing parties within the Kirk: Moderates and Orthodox. Looking at contemporary political discussions through the lens of Scottish Enlightenment theological controversies, not only changes our impression of the Scottish Enlightenment, but raises the question of whether the central question for contemporary debates is not who owns Scot-land but how it is used?

Event: Tenth Annual Scottish Episcopal Institute Lecture
Lecturer: Dr Dafydd Mills Daniel
Time: Thursday 30 October 2025 at 5pm
Venue: Online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84672178513?pwd=UbDLOwN6wuLHi1QebITj8it7M6EkTY.1