From October 1970, John Zizioulas taught Dogmatic Theology at the Theological School of the University of Edinburgh. He was elected among ten candidates as a permanent Lecturer in Christian Dogmatics, a position which is considered by that University, according to his official statement, as equivalent to that of Associate Professor in American and Continental European Universities.

During his three-year stay in this position, Zizioulas taught the courses of Christology, Pneumatology, Christian anthropology, and General Introduction to Christian Dogmatics in all the years of study. He also directed seminars for regular and postgraduate students on the doctrinal theology of the Greek Fathers of the Church, especially Athanasius the Great and Cyril of Jerusalem. Those in charge judged his teaching as an important contribution to the work of the School and the University, for which they have repeatedly expressed their satisfaction. In the official magazine of the School, “New College Bulletin,” Volume VII, Nov. 1973, p. 3, were, upon his departure, on behalf of the Deanship and the Department, among others, was written the following: “The Department of Dogmatics suffered a severe loss with the appointment of John Zizioulas to the University of Glasgow. During the three years that he was with us, John Zizioulas won himself a unique position, both as a person and for his remarkable contribution to our life and thinking. Apart from the new insights into the understanding of the Fathers, it has broadened our whole outlook in the direction of universal theology. Our loss is Glasgow’s gain, and we wish him and his Dogmatic teaching there the same ‘excitement and zest’ that his arrival brought to us here.”