Supervisor/s:
Professor Graham Ward
College:
Keble College
DPhil Thesis Title:
The Performativity of Christian Discourse
About:
Read English at Cambridge, practised as a lawyer in London for 15 years, reading theology in Oxford since 2019
Select Publications:
‘A Theological Reading of the “Welcome” Offered by God and Christ in Romans 14–15 Using the Septuagint’. The Heythrop Journal 65, no.3 (May 2024): 292–305
‘Prosper’s Law: putting the lex back into orandi and credendi’. The Oxford Journal for Law and Religion. https://doi.org/10.1093/ojlr/rwae032
‘“Dispossession”: the movement of hermeneutics and prayer in Paul Ricoeur and Rowan Williams’. Literature and Theology. https://academic.oup.com/litthe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/litthe/frae032/7925432
(as editor) On Earth As In Heaven: Through the Year with Tom Wright (London: SPCK, 2022)
Articles:
‘Real Time’, Seen and Unseen, April 2023: https://www.seenandunseen.com/real-time
‘Guys and Dolls’ Celebration of Commitment’, Seen and Unseen, May 2023: https://www.seenandunseen.com/guys-and-dolls-celebration-commitment
‘Our Language Use is Leading to a Cultural Abyss’ Seen and Unseen, February 2024 https://www.seenandunseen.com/our-language-use-leading-cultural-abyss
‘Music and Religion Belong Together’, Seen and Unseen, August 2024 https://www.seenandunseen.com/music-and-religion-belong-together
Book Reviews: James K.A. Smith Inhabiting Time, Heythrop Journal
Academic Interests:
The nature of liturgical and doctrinal language. Speech Act Theory. Contemporary Continental Philosophy. 20th Century Theology. Linguistic Theory, particularly Derrida and Ricoeur. Kierkegaard. Giorgio Agamben. The influence of the Bible on 20th Century philosophy. New Testament, particularly Pauline studies.
