THE Rev Dr Sam Wells is fondly reminisicing about his time in Edinburgh.
“New College was a wonderful experience. I had a good liturgically formed grounding at Coates Hall, and at New College I found teachers who were genuinely interested in their students and subjects that I believed really mattered and a group of people my own age (mid-twenties) who’d all seen a bit of life and had returned to study in a diff erent frame of mind,” he says.
“They were three great years and I was blessed by teachers like Duncan Forrester and John O’Neill, Bruce McCormack and Kevin Vanhoozer. I found my intellectual sweet spot in a way I’d never done in Oxford, and after ordination in Newcastle I continued studying for a PhD part-time in Durham. For my professional life, going to Edinburgh was probably the most significant thing I ever did.”