William F. Storrar is a Scottish

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who is the Director of

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, known for his contribution on

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Biography

He obtained his

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degree in

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at New College,

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, in 1993. He was ordained a minister in the

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in 1984 and has served as a parish minister in

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and Carluke for eight years. In 1992, he started working as a lecturer in practical theology at the

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, followed by being a senior lecturer at the

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in 1998. In 2000, he was appointed Director of

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and Chair of Christian Ethics and

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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. He was at the editorial board of the ''

International Journal of Public Theology ''International Journal of Public Theology'' (''IJPT'') is a peer-reviewed academic journal that investigates the idea and practice of public theology. From its foundation in 2007 until 2017, the journal was edited by Sebastian Kim. Since 2017, th ...

'' and was the chair of Common Cause at the Church of Scotland in the 1990s.

Selected works

* Storrar, William (1982), ''No Room, No Birth, Some Magi'', in Hearn, Sheila G. (ed.). ''

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'' No. 10, Autumn 1982, pp. 3–8, * Storrar, William (1990), ''Scottish Identity: A Christian Vision''. Edinburgh: Handsel.

Edited works

* Storrar, William and Iain R. Torrance (1995). ''Human Genetics: A Christian Perspectiv''e. Edinburgh: St. Andrew Press. * Storrar, William and Peter Donald (2003). ''God in Society: Doing Social Theology in Scotland Today''. Edinburgh: Saint Andrew Press. * Storrar, William and Andrew Morton (2004). ''Public Theology for the 21st Century''. T&T Clark. * 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. * Storrar, William, Katie Day and Esther McIntosh (2013). ''Yours the Power: Faith-Based Organizing in the USA''. Leiden: Brill.

References

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