The Faculty of Theology and Religion is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof Mark McInroy as Associate Professor in Contemporary and Systematic Theology. Prof McInroy will also become a Fellow of Mansfield College.
Prof McInroy joins Oxford from the University of St. Thomas (St Paul, Minnesota), where he is Professor of Theology and Associate Chair of the Theology Department, as well as Founding Co-Director of the Claritas Initiative on Beauty, Goodness, and Truth. A constructive and historical theologian, Prof McInroy’s work focuses on modern Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox thought, with particular attention to the retrieval and reformulation of patristic, medieval, and Reformation theologies in the contemporary context.
Reflecting on his appointment, Prof McInroy said:
‘I am truly delighted and deeply honored to be joining the Faculty of Theology and Religion at Oxford, where exemplary work in systematic and historical theology is being done, and which accords exceptionally well with my academic interests and approach to the field. I eagerly look forward to working with members of the faculty, and I hope that I am able to foster collaboration in the many arenas in which we have shared interests, not least the modern retrievals and reformulations of patristic, medieval, and Reformation theologies.’
Prof McInroy holds a doctorate in theology from Harvard Divinity School. Following postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge, he has gone on to publish widely, including Balthasar on the Spiritual Senses: Perceiving Splendour (Oxford, 2014), which received the Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise. He is co-editor of Image as Theology (Brepols, 2022), The Christian Theological Tradition (Routledge, 2019), and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Hans Urs von Balthasar.
Welcoming the appointment, Prof Andrew Davison, Regius Professor of Divinity, commented:
‘Mark McInroy brings a remarkable range of expertise to the Faculty of Theology and Religion at Oxford. I am delighted by his appointment in the field of modern, historical, and systematic theology. His work on how earlier theology – patristic, mediaeval, and Reformation – bears on contemporary theological questions aligns closely with the interests of many of our students and with the capacity for our Faculty to be a resource for religious reflection in the present day. I greatly respect his work, not least on the theme of deification, and am particularly pleased by the research expertise he brings on Anglican theology, which has been surprisingly under studied of late.’
We look forward to welcoming Prof McInroy to Oxford and to the valuable contributions he will bring to our teaching and research community.
