Graduate research students
First Name |
Surname |
College |
DPhil Title |
Mark |
Aloysius |
Campion Hall |
Desire and its transformations in Hannah Arendt and Augustine |
Matthew |
Anderson |
Oriel |
In Defence of Children: Pro- and Anti-Natalist Arguments in Moral Philosophy and Karl Barth |
Saquab |
Ashraf |
St Cross |
A critical survey of the Qur’ānic qul verses and their literary function in selected polemical exchanges |
Sergei |
Baranov |
St Stephen's House |
Ante-Nicene Theology of Leadership: Contemporary Perspectives |
Harmon |
Barlow Iv |
Christ Church |
Christian Ethics |
Hannah |
Barr |
Wycliffe Hall |
‘Sex Is Risky and Grace Is Not Discovered By All’: A Moral Theological Construction of Sexual Consent |
Maria |
Beer vuco |
Harris Manchester |
Philosophy-Theology: A New Perspective from Aquinas and Second-Person Relatedness. |
Hadley Jane |
Bennet |
Regent's Park |
"A Theology of Leadership" to address the significant persistent bias towards Christomonism in ecclesial leadership paradigms &underpin future reform |
Christopher |
Bennett |
St Hilda's |
Naturalism's defining triumph? Evaluating Evolutionary Debunking Arguments against Religion |
David |
Bennett |
Wycliffe Hall |
The Fall and Ascesis: The Relationship of Cruciform Discipleship and the Theological Anthropology of Same-Sex Desire |
James |
Bergida |
Blackfriars |
Towards Interfaith Finance? Islamic Banking and the Christian Prohibition of Usury |
Itzhak |
Berkman |
Wolfson |
Phenomenology's Impact on Theology: The Case of Eliezer Berkovits |
Simon |
Berry |
Wycliffe Hall |
Responses to Lollardy and the shaping of English Religion, c. 1400-1450 |
Ingrid |
Betancourt |
Harris Manchester |
Hermeneutics and Method in Latin American Liberation Theology |
Yashua |
Bhatti |
Mansfield |
The tentative title is F.W.J von Schelling's Paul: Pauline Thought in German Idealism |
Sean |
Biggins |
Blackfriars |
Transhumanist Aspirations for Accelerating Insight: A Philosophical and Theological Critique |
Daniel |
Borvan |
Keble |
Fighting for the Faith: Pierre du Moulin's Polemical Quest for the Reunion of Christendom |
Susan |
Bridge |
New |
Field: Modern Theology (systematic theology) |
Edward |
Brooks |
Oriel |
What May I Hope For? Modernity and the Augustinian Virtue of Hope |
Robert |
Brown |
Blackfriars |
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Alexander |
Bruce |
St Stephen's House |
Desert Fathers and Mountain Monks: Revisioning Buddhist-Christian Dual Belonging |
Richard |
Buck |
Wolfson |
Stories the Church Lives By: A Cognitive Approach to Ecclesial Theology and Praxis |
Matthew |
Carlos |
Balliol |
Sramana ascetic movements towards a theory of religions change. |
Nicole |
Chen |
Christ Church |
Christian Doctrine: to what extent did Marcion influence the formation of the New Testament canon? |
Mehmet |
Ciftci |
Trinity |
Title: 'Does the Catholic Church have a coherent teaching on church-state relations?' Subject area: Political theology and Catholic social teaching. |
Judith |
Clark |
Oriel |
Reach for the Sky. A Typology of Angelic Discourse and its Liturgical Impact Within the Community at Qumran |
John |
Comstock |
Lady Margaret Hall |
The Historical Context and Authorial Intention(s) of Augustine's Confessions |
Rachel |
Cresswell |
Blackfriars |
The use of Scripture in the writings of Anselm of Canterbury |
Emerson |
Csorba |
Brasenose |
Moral theology, vocation and the long-term: overcoming ontological uncertainty in modern work |
Michael |
D'Angeli |
Brasenose |
Philosophy and Religion: The Hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur |
Edward |
David |
Blackfriars |
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Victoria |
Davies |
St John's |
Thinking beyond metaphysics: redressing the question of Kierkegaard's influence on Heidegger |
Rebecca |
Dean |
Pembroke |
"What if a Spirit or an Angel has Spoken?" Narrative Modelling of the Treatment of Religious Experience in the Acts of the Apostles |
Hans |
Decker |
Oriel |
Making Books Without End: Anthology and Generative Rereading in the Wisdom Tradition |
Nikolaas |
Deketelaere |
Balliol |
'The Hermeuticity of Truth: A Theological Appropriation and Contextualisation of the Thought of Jean-Luc Nancy' (theology and modern European thought) |
Dritero |
Demjaha |
St John's |
Historical and Systematic Theology: |
Lyndon |
Drake |
Worcester |
Old Testament/Hebrew Bible: a biblical theology of capital from the Hebrew Bible, and its versions and ancient interpreters |
Matthew |
Dunch |
Campion Hall |
Field: Philosophical Theology. Proposed Title: The Mystical Pedagogy of Riddles |
Jane |
Eisenach |
Pembroke |
Field: Modern Theology |
Tristan |
Elby |
St Cross |
The Cult and Theology of the Vratyas Related to the 'Proto-Tantric' Ascetic Groups of India |
Justine |
Ellis |
Oriel |
Sacred Texts, Secular Space: Towards Religious Literacy for a Secular Age |
Timothy |
Farrant |
Pembroke |
The Mental and Material Laboratory of 13th C. Science |
Salim |
Farrar |
Wolfson |
Practical Sufism and Living Shari’ah in Contemporary Societies: Works and Missions of Kazim Al-Saqqaf, 'Abdullah bin Bayyah and 'Abdullah al-Harari |
Steven |
Firmin |
Pembroke |
Christian Ethics: Can common civic virtues be derived from common objects of love in Islam and Christianity? |
Jennifer |
Flowers |
Kellogg |
The Life Journey of the Soul in Late Anglo-Saxon England |
Jamie |
Franklin |
Ripon Cuddesdon |
A New Aesthetic Moment - Theological Aesthetics and the Contemporary World and Church |
Peter |
Gent |
Oriel |
Texts That Do Things: Biblical Texts in Religious Communities |
Martin |
Gliniecki |
St Stephen's House |
Discrimination in Modern Asymmetric Conflict: a Christian Moral Analysis |
Jonathan |
Griffiths |
Corpus Christi |
Defending Royal Ecclesiastical Supremacy in England and Ireland: the 1520s to 1553 |
Emily |
Gum |
Oriel |
Christian Ethics: What are the goals of education? A Dialogue between Philosophical Theologian Nicholas Wolterstorff and Poli |
John |
Haglund |
St John's |
Kierkegaard's Conception of the Comic: A Hermeneutic for the Life of Christian Faith |
Richard |
Hain |
Wycliffe Hall |
Children: an inheritance from the Lord. Infanticide and the value of life |
Claire |
Hall |
All Souls |
Origen and Prophecy |
Joseph |
Hamilton |
Christ Church |
A study of pre-Nicene patristic pneumatology |
Chase |
Hasenoehrl |
Campion Hall |
Historical and Systematic Theology with a concentration in Postmodern Theology. Necessary Fantasy: Hyperreality in Sacramental Ontology |
David |
Hazell |
Wycliffe Hall |
The Future of Emerging Church? An Eschatologically Orientated Ecclesiology of Fresh Expressions' |
Alan |
Herbert |
Wolfson |
The Imaginal and Shared Religious Experience in Jiva Goswami's Sri Bhakti Sandarbha |
Eric |
Hoff |
Wolfson |
Augustinian Studies. "From Confession to the Controversy: The Development of Augustine's Understanding of the Law". |
James |
Hooks |
Lincoln |
Proposed Field: Political Theology and Early Modern Religion. Title: The Divine Light of Conscience: Theology in Bayle’s Theory of Toleration. |
Timothy |
Howles |
Keble |
The Political Theology of Bruno Latour |
Brian |
Hutchinson |
Oriel |
The Marriage of Heaven and Earth: C.S. Lewis and the Eschatological Imagination |
Nabeelah |
Jaffer |
Pembroke |
Blessed are the strangers: 'hijra and guraba' in jihadist thought |
Yasmin |
Jaffri |
Wolfson |
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Owain |
James |
Trinity |
Death, Demons and the Medium of the Message: Exploring the Exegesis of 1 Samuel 28:3-25 in the Early Church. |
Katie |
Javanaud |
Keble |
Buddhist Ethics: Metaphysical Foundations & Practical Applications. |
Anniken |
Johansen |
St Cross |
Body, Self, and Cosmic Transformation - an Anthropological Insight into the Corpus Areopagiticum |
Tatiana |
Kalveks |
Worcester |
'A constructive Schleiermacharian analysis of the use of pop music in ministry.' Modern theology (19th century thought framing contemporary culture). |
Oliver |
Keenan |
Blackfriars |
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Muhammad |
Khalil |
St Antony's |
Field: Intellectual History of Islam |
Hak |
Kim |
Christ Church |
(Old Testament) Hostage Education as International Policy in Neo-Assyrian Period and its Impact on the Kingdom of Judah in the 7th century BCE |
George |
Klaeren |
Pembroke |
Field: DPhil Theology, Science and Religion |
Simon |
Kopf |
Blackfriars |
Divine Providence and Natural Contingency: New Perspectives from Aquinas on the Divine Action Debate |
Evangeline |
Kozitza |
Keble |
Field: New Testament |
Kvetoslav |
Krejci |
Keble |
Harry Williams beyond Surroundings: finding God through self-awareness and doubt |
Marten |
Krijgsman |
St Cross |
Old Testament (theory of myth and the formation of national identity) |
Adrian |
Kumarasingham |
Wolfson |
D.Phil. in Theology (Science and Religion) |
Jaroslaw |
Kurek |
St Benet's Hall |
Synergy as a Model for the relationship between God and humanity: the patristic approach in Ephrem the Syrian, Gregory of Nyssa and Augustine of Hippo |
Mateusz |
Kusio |
Wolfson |
The Antichrist Tradition in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity |
Un Sung |
Kwak |
St John's |
Old Testament/Hebrew Bible |
Travis |
La Couter |
Campion Hall |
Doing Theology at a Distance: The Metaphysics of Prayer in Hans Urs von Balthasar |
Sean |
Lau |
Trinity |
Project title: "Doctrine, Ethics and Discernment" |
Amy |
Lee |
Oriel |
Science and Religion as Languages: A Metaphor for Understanding Science, Religion, and their Relationships |
Elizabeth |
Li |
Mansfield |
Kierkegaard, Martensen, and the Problem of Theology and Philosophy |
Pengxiang |
Li |
Regent's Park |
Proposed Field: Modern Theology |
Harry |
Lines |
Kellogg |
Wisdom of Solomon: The Use and Exegesis of the Solomonic Corpus in Origen |
James |
Lorenz |
Worcester |
From Trauma to Communion: Film and the Theology of Memory |
Victoria |
Lorrimar |
Oriel |
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Megan |
Loumagne |
Christ Church |
Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve: Original Sin and the Evolution of Sexual Difference |
Mark |
Macaulay |
Regent's Park |
Abrahamic Faiths and the Challenge of Otherness: Exploring the Mandate for Peace Prior to Encounter |
Frazer |
MacDiarmid |
Christ Church |
The Collective Memory of Ignatius of Antioch: The Martyr as a Locus of Christian Identity, Remembering and Remembered |
Kirsten |
MacKerras |
St Cross |
Eschatology and Political Theology in Lactantius and Eusebius |
Nandhan |
Maniratnam |
Christ Church |
Modern Theology - "Is a secular account of human dignity viable?: A critical exploration of the Kantian tradition" |
Matthew |
Martin |
Pembroke |
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Neil |
Martin |
Keble |
1. Galatians 4:9 `How is it that You are Turning Back?? 2. Acts 1:3/28:31 'Kingdom as Story' |
Roy |
McCoy III |
Wolfson |
Scriptura Scripturam Interpretaur [Scripture Interprets Scripture]: An Analysis Of The Bible as Used In The Tafsirs Of Ibn Barrajan (D.536/1141) and Al-Biqa I (D.885/1480) |
Margarita |
Montgomery |
Lincoln |
Recalibrating brand as belief: a study of the commercial branding projects of the Arab Gulf's new cultural institutions |
Gregory |
Morgan |
Mansfield |
In Search of a Renewed Theo-Cultural Metaphysic for Postmodern Jurisprudence via the Historical Reclamation of Natural Law as a Theory of Divine Govt. |
Daniel |
Mullaney |
Wycliffe Hall |
Alexander Men and Hermeneutics: Integrating the Methods of Biblical Criticism in Russian Orthodoxy |
Michael |
Murray |
Lady Margaret Hall |
The Onus of Divine Simplicity in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Framing of Trinitarian Orthodoxy |
John |
Olson |
Lady Margaret Hall |
Field: Systematic Theology |
Mari |
Ovsepyan |
Pembroke |
The Anatomy of Unbelief: A Postsecular Approach to the Scientific Study of Nonreligion |
Dimitrios |
Pallis |
St Cross |
The Energetism and Trinitarianism of Philo of Alexandria |
Shannon |
Parrott |
Wycliffe Hall |
Old Testament |
Steven |
Paulikas |
Regent's Park |
Paul Ricoeur's Biblical Hermeneutics of Evil |
Jahdiel |
Perez |
St Stephen's House |
Joy and Jest: Towards a Constructive Theology of Laughter |
Katharine |
Perry |
Pembroke |
"The Devil?s in the Details: the Development of Hellenistic-Jewish Demonology in Light of the Septuagint" |
Arthur |
Petersen |
Harris Manchester |
Uncertainty and God: A Study of the Role of Uncertainty and Ignorance in Scientific and Religious Practices |
David |
Pickering |
Worcester |
"Christian Theology, within that, Apologetics. The proposed title is ""Chesterton and Apologetics beyond Apologia: a study in method and imagination.""" |
Francesca |
Po |
St Stephen's House |
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Matthew |
Pritchard |
Harris Manchester |
Field: Science and Religion. |
Olga |
Puzanova |
Wolfson |
Russo-Japanese Religious Encounters in the Meiji Era. The Emergence of Japanese Orthodoxy |
Emily |
Qureshi-Hurst |
Pembroke |
Science and Religion |
Jenny |
Rallens |
Oriel |
St. Augustine's Theology of Memory |
Naomi |
Richman |
St Antony's |
Sex and the Spirit: Configurations of the Body and Sexual Difference in Deliverance Pentacostalism |
James |
Roberts |
Harris Manchester |
Theological anthropology. |
Jacob |
Rodriguez |
Wycliffe Hall |
Project Title (in NT): "Anomalous Biography? The Function and Reception of Matthew's Gospel in Comparison with Contemporary Graeco-Roman Biographies." |
Paul |
Rowse |
Blackfriars |
Pauline Letters. Paul's Understanding of Moral Co-Responsibility in the Body |
Andris |
Rudzitis |
St Cross |
Political theology: Radicalisation. The Role of Martyrdom in the Radicalisation of 20th century Latin American Christian Revolutionaries |
Stefani |
Ruper |
Linacre |
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Gerard |
Ryan |
Campion Hall |
Modern Theology: Theological Dimensions Toward a Theology of Love and Mutual |
Stefano |
Salemi |
Trinity |
Historical-systematic theology |
Prabhsharandeep |
Sandhu |
Wolfson |
Metaphysics and Romanticism:A Study of Theoretical Movements in Contemporary Sikh Thought |
Andrew |
Shamel |
Linacre |
Literature and Theology - Secular Literature, Religious Belief, and Mediation of the Divine |
Henry |
Shea Iv |
Campion Hall |
Proposed field: Historical and Systematic Theology. |
Samuel |
Shearn |
Worcester |
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David |
Sheen |
Ripon Cuddesdon |
An ecclesiastical and intellectual history of the nature of religious identity within the writings of the Reverend Dr William Augustus Muhlenberg. |
Joseph |
Simmons |
Campion Hall |
Theology and Literature - Proposed Title: "The Vulnerable Imagination: Embodiment, Empathy, and Ecclesial Discourse for the 21st Century" |
Martin |
Smith |
Lady Margaret Hall |
Assessing arguments from moral objectivity for God's existence |
Pavlo |
Smytsnyuk |
Campion Hall |
Religion and Nation. An exercise in comparative political theology with special reference to Aurobindo and Yannaras |
Derek |
Spears |
Blackfriars |
What has Athens do with Jerusalem; a study of the relationship between classical literature and the church in the Greek East from New Testament times till Origen |
Gregory |
Stacey |
Trinity |
Towards a Catholic Epistemology |
Elizabeth |
Stair |
Wolfson |
Study of Religions: Judaism. "Paula Winkler and Martin Buber on the gendered and institutional engagement of Jewish history for national renewal" |
Elizabeth |
Stell |
Oriel |
Old Testament |
Marek |
Sullivan |
Balliol |
Secular assemblages: affect, Orientalism, and power in the French enlightenment |
Priya |
Sury |
Balliol |
THE HUNGRY SELF: BIOMEDICINE, BUDDHISM, AND THE MANAGEMENT OF CRAVING |
Szilvia |
Szanyi |
St John's |
Study of religions, Buddhist studies |
Aaron |
Taylor |
Blackfriars |
Common Moral Grammar? Knowledge of the Natural Law in Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin |
Holly |
Thompson |
Worcester |
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Julian |
Thompson |
Worcester |
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Stephen |
Thompson |
Blackfriars |
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Blake |
Trimble |
Mansfield |
Belief, Cultural Epistemology, and Salvation: The Soteriological Implications of the Cultural Theory, Historiography, and Psychoanalysis in Michel de Certeau's Understanding of Belief |
Tyler |
Tully |
Exeter |
'The Lamb that was Slain': Towards a Post-humanist Study of Deep Incarceration and 'The Other' |
Andrew |
Turnbull |
Wycliffe Hall |
Field: Theological Epistemology Title: Lesslie Newbigin and the Renewal of Evangelical Theological Epistemology |
Stacey |
Van Dyk |
Keble |
Field: New Testament. |
James |
Van Dyke |
Christ Church |
Christian Personalism and Aquinas' Natural Law: Can Their integration illumine the Mystery of Human Identity and Difference for Christian Ethics? |
Rebekah |
Van sant-clark |
Oriel |
My proposed title is, "Reframing Exile in the Diaspora: The Joseph Narrative" and the field would be Old Testament Studies. |
Gleb |
Vasilyev |
Wolfson |
Christian Angelology in Pseudo-Dionysius and Sergius Bulgakov |
Stevan |
Veljkovic |
St Cross |
Secular Order and the Sources of Consensus on Climate Change |
Arabella |
Volkers |
St Benet's Hall |
A re-consideration of Apollinarius and his place in the development of doctrine |
Yi-Jye |
Wang |
Regent's Park |
Sanctifying England: Puritan Preaching on Conformity in Early Stuart London |
Daniel |
Warnke |
Wolfson |
Shaped for the city: How does worship in the Vineyard shape a vision of human and divine agency that motivates urban church planting? |
John |
Whitty |
Pembroke |
Intellectual Light - Tradition and Illumination in the Though of Basil of Caesarea |
Cheuk |
Wong |
St Stephen's House |
Field: Patristics |
Guzin |
Yener |
Lady Margaret Hall |
Tibetan Buddhist texts on the practices of Kurukulle, a critical study |