Professor Mark Wynn
Biography:
I completed my BA in Philosophy & Theology at the University of Oxford, and then a DPhil, again at Oxford, under the supervision of Brian Davies and Richard Swinburne. I have held positions at King’s College, London, the University of Glasgow, where I was a Gifford Postdoctoral Research Fellow, the Australian Catholic University, the University of Exeter, and most recently the University of Leeds, where I was Professor of Philosophy and Religion from 2013 to 2020.
Research Area/s:
Philosophical Theology
Research Interests:
I am very willing to supervise across all the central fields of philosophical theology and philosophy of religion. In recent years, my own research has focused upon questions such as: the distinctive character of the goods to which religious and spiritual traditions are directed; the structure of such traditions, including the connection between their practical and creedal commitments; the relationship between the various vocabularies that are used to describe, from the insider’s perspective, progress in the spiritual life; the epistemic significance of tradition in religious contexts; and the relationship between the concept of God and accounts of spiritual well-being.
In general, my research rests on the thought that religious traditions constitute extended experiments in human possibilities -- and the belief that in some cases, the careful retrieval of those traditions can throw new light on contemporary questions about how to live well.
Select Publications
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Aesthetic experience and spiritual well-being: locating the role of theological commitments
Wynn, MAugust 2018|Journal article|International Journal of Philosophy and Theology -
How to Think of Religious Commitment as a Ground for Moral Commitment: A Thomistic Perspective on the Moral Philosophies of John Cottingham and Raimond Gaita
Wynn, MEdited by:Kvanvig, JSeptember 2017|Chapter|Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion -
Renewing the Senses: A Study of the Philosophy and Theology of the Spiritual Life
Wynn, MJanuary 2013|BookIn this existential sense, we might say, self and world flow into one another. When we consider the later phases of Alexander's description of the waterfall experience, it is not just that my sense of self is redefined, but that I encounter an ' I' in the ...Philosophy -
Faith and Place: An Essay in Embodied Religious Epistemology
Wynn, MMay 2009|BookThis book takes knowledge of place as a basis for thinking about the place-relative character of religious practice, and the relationship between religious belief and our embodied life.Recent epistemology of religion has appealed to various ...Religion -
Emotional Experience and Religious Understanding: Integrating Perception, Conception and Feeling
Wynn, MMay 2005|BookWynn tackles established topics in philosophical theology in the light of new perspectives on emotions.Philosophy