Graduate Research Students

The students listed below are those who have transferred from Probationer Research Student (PRS) to DPhil status. For details of the key milestones for DPhil students please see here.

First Name	Surname	College/PPH	DPhil Title
Mark	Aloysius	Campion Hall	Desire and its transformations in Hannah Arendt and Augustine
Ghila	Amati	Balliol	From Nietzsche to Theology: A Nietzschean Interpretation of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook's Thought
Harmon	Barlow Iv	Christ Church	Beyond Scarcity: Christian Ethics and the Economic Problem
Hannah	Barr	Keble	'Sex is risky and grace is not discovered by all': A moral theological construction of sexual consent
Maria	Beer vuco	Harris Manchester	"Do you need religion (religio) if you have love (caritas)?" A second-person perspective on Aquinas's answer
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	Evolving Epistemeology: A Reconsideration of Evolutionary Debunking Arguments against Religion
David	Bennett	Wycliffe Hall	Queering the Queer: In what ways can the witness of homosexual celibate ascesis (HCA) renew and inform the role of desire in Anglican moral and pastoral theology?
James	Bergida	Blackfriars	Towards Interfaith Finance? Islamic Banking and the Christian Prohibition of Usury
Itzhak	Berkman	Wolfson	Revival of a Dialogical God: Rosenzweig as a Nietzchean Theist
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
Susan	Bridge	New	Glory, without the Kingdom and the Power: new theologies of glory
Robert	Brown	Blackfriars	Brevard Childs' canonical approach: an evaluation of its main elements
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	To what extent did Marcion influence the formation of the New Testament canon?
Mehmet	Ciftci	Trinity	The Second Vatican Council's Legacy and the Search for a Theological Politics
Judith	Clark	Oriel	Reach for the Sky. A Typology of Angelic Discourse and its Liturgical Impact Within the Community at Qumran
Deborah	Clutton	Trinity	A Church fit for the Kingdoms? Re-building the secular Church in England in the aftermath of the First Viking Age.
John	Comstock	Lady Margaret Hall	The Historical Context and Authorial Intention(s) of Augustine's Confessions
Andrew	Cowan	Keble	New Testament 'Hymnic' Texts in Ancient Reception and Modern Interpretation
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
Victoria	Davies	St John's	Thinking beyond metaphysics: redressing the question of Kierkegaard's influence on Heidegger
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	On the thinkability of paradox and the paradoxicality of thought.
Lyndon	Drake	Worcester	A Biblical Theology of Capital from the Hebrew Bible and its Ancient Versions
Matthew	Dunch	Campion HAll	The Mystical Pedagogy of Riddles
Timothy	Farrant	Pembroke	The Mental and Material Laboratory of 13th C. Science
Steven	Firmin	Pembroke	[Tentative] Can the concept of love in Augustinian political theology help ground a common state for Muslims and Christians?
Jennifer	Flowers	Kellogg	The Life Journey of the Soul in Late Anglo-Saxon England
Richard	Glenfield	Christ Church	Images and Idols in the Thought of Bede
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
Richard	Hain	Wycliffe Hall	Children: an inheritance from the Lord. Infanticide and the value of life
Joseph	Hamilton	Christ Church	The Emergence of Pneumatology in pre-Nicene Roman Africa
Chase	Hasenoehrl	Campion Hall	A Theology of Fantasy: Therapeutic Sacramentality in Michael Henry's notion of 'Life'
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".
Justin	Holder	Lady Margaret Hall	Madhyamaka, Naturalism, and Reality
James	Hooks	Lincoln	The Divine Light of Conscience: Theology in Bayle’s Theory of Toleration.
Brian	Hutchinson	Oriel	The Marriage of Heaven and Earth: C.S. Lewis and the Eschatological Imagination
Jacob	Imam	Lady Margaret Hall	The Catholic Theology of Money
Nabeelah	Jaffer	Pembroke	Blessed are the strangers: 'hijra and guraba' in jihadist thought
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 Transfomation - an Anthropological Insight into the Corpus Areopagiticum
Zachariah	Kahler	Christ Church	Creatures in Relation: the imago dei as analogia relationis in the theological anthopology of Karl Barth
Tatiana	Kalveks	Worcester	No Longer Slaves: Weak Hamartiology in Bethel Music
Muhammad	Khalil	St Antony's	The Political as Ordinary: Foundational Discourses from South Asia on Spirituality and Politics in Islam
George	Klaeren	Pembroke	Reading the Book of Nature: Natural Theology in Early Modern spain, 1436-1825
Evangeline	Kozitza	Keble	Receiving the Little Child: Devotion to the Infant Christ from the New Testament to Origen
Kvestoslav	Krejci	Keble	Harry Williams beyond Surroundings: finding God through self-awareness and doubt
Marten	Krijgsman	St Cross	Theory of myth and the formation of national identity.
Adrian	Kumarasingham	Wolfson	A theology within a critical realist framework for Christians in Buddhist cultural contexts
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
Un Sung	Kwak	St John's College	Rhetoric in 1 Esdras 3–4 (The Story of the Three Bodyguards)
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	The Trinitarian Eschatology of Geerhardus Vos
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
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
Aaron	Mansfield	Blackfriars Hall	Common Moral Grammar? Knowledge of the Natural Law in Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin
Tim	Middleton	Lincoln	The Wounded Body of God: Deep Incarnation and the Crisis of Ecological Trauma
Nina	Montgomery	Lincoln	Recalibrating brand as belief: a study of the commercial branding projects of the Arab Gulf's new cultural institutions
Harry	Moore	Brasenose	Systematic Theology - Analogia Sapientiae: Overcoming Post-Modern Ontology in Erich Przywara and Sergei Bulgakov
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.
Lauren	Morry	Lady Margaret Hall	The Church of England Encountering Pluralism: Engaging between Anglicans and British Muslims from 2000 to the Present
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	Revelation and Real Presence in Heideggerian Perspective
Mari	Ovsepyan	Pembroke	The Anatomy of Unbelief: A Postsecular Approach to the Scientific Study of Nonreligion
Brett	Parris	Balliol	Yogic Metaethics: A comparative analysis of links betwen metaphysics, conceptions of liberation, yogic practice, and ethics, in six Indian traditions
Shannon	Parrott	Wycliffe Hall	Dressed to the Nines, Stripped to the Bone: An Examination of the ‘Acts of Clothing/Unclothing’ by Yahweh in Prophetic Literature
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	Chesterton and Apologetics beyond Apologia: a study in method and imagination.
Matthew	Pritchard	Harris Manchester	Deeply Religious Nonbelief: The Cognitive and Affective Tapestry of Religious Naturalism
Olga	Puzanova	Wolfson	Russo-Japanese Religious Encounters in the Meiji Era. The Emergence of Japanese Orthodoxy
Emily	Qureshi-Hurst	Pembroke	Understanding Paul Tillich's Doctrine of Salvation as an Ontological Transformation in Light of the Special Theory of Relativity and a B-theory of Time
James	Roberts	Harris Manchester	Promoting the loss of the self and the mysticism of human communion: Uncovering the work of Mother Maria Skobtsova.
Jacob	Rodriguez	Wycliffe Hall	Combining Gospels in Early Christianity: The One, the Many, and the Fourfold
Paul	Rowse	Blackfriars	Early Christin Readings of Paul on Moral Regeneration
Stefano	Salemi	Trinity	Christ's Ultimate Risk: Christ's Impeccability and Infinite Risk in Light of Ellen White's Tabernacle Christology
Andrew	Shamel	Linacre	Telling Stories to See With: Mythopoeisis and Mythopoeic Fiction
Henry	Shea Iv	Campion Hall	An Analogy of Grace: The Tensive Differentiated Integrality of Christic Participation
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	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
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
Elizabeth	Stair	Wolfson	A homeland in the home: the German cultural Zionist domestic space and its women creators
Elizabeth	Stell	Oriel	Revealing Dreams: A Way to Divine Knowlege in Early Jewish Texts
Szilvia	Szanyi	St John's	Perception and Perceptual Illusion in Early Yogācāra Buddhism
Holly	Thompson	Worcester	Subversion of the Female Gender in the Old Testament: A Study of Esther, Deborah, Judith and Susanna'
Julian	Thompson	Worcester	Old Testament: 'Orality, Meaning, and the Rhetorical Persistence of Traditional Forms in Ancient Hebrew Poetry'
Stephen	Thompson	Blackfriars	The Significance of the concept Om in the Vedānta literature with particular reference to Anubhūtisvarūpācārya’s Ṭippaṇams (c.1300 CE) on the Māṇḍūkya-Gauḍapādīya with Śaṅkarabhāṣya, the Bhagavad Gītā with Śaṅkarabhāṣya, his Prakaṭārthavivaraṇa on the Brahmasūtrabhāṣya and his Iṣṭasiddhivivaraṇam
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	Religious Eco-Materialisms: Affect, Animality, and the Antihuman
Andrew	Turnbull	Wycliffe Hall	Lesslie Newbigin and the Renewal of Evangelical Theological Epistemology
Stacey	Van Dyk	Keble	King and Temple in the Fourth Gospel.
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	Re-presenting Dislocation: The Poetics of Exile and Wilderness in Ancient Jewish Texts
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
Nathan	Wallace	St Peter's	Dissenting Theodicy: An Engagement with Charles Taylor's A Secular Age
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?
Andrew	Wong	St Stephen's House	The Beauty of the Affections: The Development of a Theological Account of the Emotions in Augustine
Guzin	Yener	Lady Margaret Hall	The Politics of Divine Power