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| Job Title: | Lecturer - Philosophy |
| Location: | FML0103 |
| Phone No: | 0151 291 3208 |
| Faculty: | Arts and Humanities |
| Subject/Service Area: | Theology, Philosophy and Religious Studies |
| Professional Memberships: | Fellow, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics Treasurer, Kierkegaard Society of the UK Member, American Academy of Religion |
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Lecturer in Philosophy Facilitator, Association for the Continental Philosophy of Religion |
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| Research Interests: | Continental philosophy of religion, Kierkegaard, Derrida, language, machines and organisms in idealist philosophy |
| Publications: | Books (Co-edited with George Pattison) Kierkegaard on Self and Society (Macmillan, 1998) Kierkegaard, Language and the Reality of God (Ashgate, 2001) (Co-authored with Hugh Rayment-Pickard), The Inclusive God: Reclaiming Theology for an Inclusive Church (Canterbury, 2006). Radical Orthodoxy. A Critical Introduction (SPCK, 2007). Prayers for an Inclusive Church (Canterbury, 2008) Derrida and Theology (T and T Clark, 2009) Articles and Chapters ‘Are the Mad Made in the Image of God?’ The Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, February 1996, pp.20-25. ‘Stirring the Waters of Language: Kierkegaard on the Dangers of Doing Theology,’ Heythrop Journal 37 October 1996, pp.421-436 ‘Kierkegaard: Speaking in Tongues’ in K. Masugata (ed.) Kierkegaard and Language (Japanese publication, ISBN 4-88848-407-4, 1998), pp.4-24 ‘The Impossible Incarnation’ Modern Believing, Vol.XXXIX, April 1998, pp. 9-15. ‘Books About Nothing: Kierkegaard’s Liberating Rhetoric,’ in Shakespeare and Pattison (eds.), op. cit., pp.97-111. (with Zoe Bennett-Moore et al.) 'A Midrash' Feminist Theology 18, May 1998, pp. 29-40 ‘Thinking About Fire: Derrida and Judaism’ Literature and Theology Vol. 12 No. 3, September 1998. pp.242-255 ‘The New Romantics. A Critique of Radical Orthodoxy’ Theology Vol. CIII No. 813, May/June 2000, pp.163-177 ‘A Word of Explanation. Transfiguring Explanation in the Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses’ in Robert Perkins (ed.) International Kierkegaard Commentary. Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses (Mercer University Press, 2003), pp. 91-106 ‘A Hiding to Nothing. Cupitt and Derrida on the Mystery Tour’ in Gavin Hyman (ed.) New Directions in Philosophical Theology. Essays in Honour of Don Cupitt (Ashgate, 2004), pp.101-116. ‘Better Well-Hanged than Ill-Wed? Kierkegaard and Radical Orthodoxy’ in Wayne Hankey and Douglas Hedley (eds.), Deconstructing Radical Orthodoxy (Ashgate, 2005), pp.133-148 ‘A Seat at the Table? Chaplaincy and Student Services in a Church University’ in Peter McGrail and John Sullivan (eds.), Dancing on the Edge. Chaplaincy, Church and Higher Education, (Matthew James, 2007), pp.125-38 ‘Ecclesiology and Philosophy’ in Gerard Mannion and Lewis Mudge (eds.), The Routledge Companion to the Christian Church, (Routledge, 2007), pp.659-677 ‘The Paradox of the Inclusive Church. Can Ecclesiology Live with Questions?’ in Julie Clague, Bernard Hoose and Gerard Mannion (eds.) Moral Theology for the Twenty-First Century. Essays in Celebration of Kevin Kelly (T&T Clark, 2008), pp.192-203 ‘The God of Hope: The God Difference’ in Adrian Alker (ed.), Together in Hope. Proclaiming God’s Justice, Living God’s Love (St Mark’s CRC Press, 2008), pp.10-16 ‘The Community of the Question: Inclusive Ecclesiology’ in Gerard Mannion (ed.) Church and the Religious Other: Essays on Truth, Unity and Diversity (T&T Clark, 2008), pp. 156 - 167 'A Walk on the Wild Side: Church and Identity Beyond Humanism' Journal of Anglican Studies, Vol 7, Issue 01, May 2009, pp. 13-34.
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