The Faculty of Theology and Religion is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Samuel Tranter as the new McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life Postdoctoral Fellow.
Samuel currently serves as Academic Dean at Cranmer Hall, Durham, where he oversees undergraduate and postgraduate theology programmes and co-directs the Doctor of Theology and Ministry, in partnership with Durham University’s Department of Theology and Religion. His research interests span doctrinal, moral, political, spiritual, and practical theology, often exploring how these fields interact.
Samuel studied theology at Aberdeen, before undertaking doctoral research at Durham funded by the AHRC, culminating in his book Oliver O’Donovan’s Moral Theology: Tensions and Triumphs (Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2020). He has previously taught at Lindisfarne College of Theology, St Hild College in Yorkshire, and spent a year teaching at an Anglican and ecumenical theological college in Southeast Asia. An active lay Anglican, Samuel regularly preaches and teaches within local churches.
Welcoming the appointment, Professor Luke Bretherton said:
I am thrilled that Sam Tranter will be joining Christ Church and the department as the new McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life Postdoctoral Fellow. Sam brings a wealth of teaching and research experience from his time at Durham University. I anticipate he will make a vital contribution to scholarship, to the engagement of theology with church and society, and to the collegiality of the department. The focus of his work at Oxford on the moral and political theology of Artificial Intelligence could not be more timely or important.
On his appointment, Dr Samuel Tranter said:
I’m delighted to be joining the Faculty of Theology and Religion at Oxford, and grateful for the opportunity to spend the next few years pursuing theological research into moral and political questions in such a congenial environment. I very much look forward to collaborating with colleagues within the McDonald Centre as we seek to foster conversations where diverse voices can come together to address areas of contemporary significance.
