I read Theology at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford; did my doctoral research in Oxford; spent two years at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris; then returned to the UK to take up my first job as Lecturer in Theology at Hull University. After a year I was appointed Lecturer in the History and Theology and the Latin West at Durham University, where I remained for just over twenty-five years (I was appointed Professor in 2008) . I moved to Oxford in 2015 to become Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity and Canon of Christ Church. I became a Fellow of the British Academy in 2018.
Research Area:
History of Christianity; Historical and Systematic Theology
Research Interests:
Early Christianity. My research has focussed on the Latin West, especially Augustine of Hippo (354-430); auditory culture; spirituality; language; exegesis; sense perception and materiality; music.
Sound and Silence in Augustine’s Christological Exegesis of Scripture
HARRISON, C
Edited by:
Westhaver, G, Vince, R
February 2020
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Christ Unabridged: Knowing and Loving the Son of Man
The title `the Son of Man' evokes the different aspects of the whole Christ: the humanity and divinity of Christ, his earthly ministry, his sacramental presence, and the eschatological consummation of his work. It is also a term of relationship, suggestive of both the relations constitutive of the life of the Holy Trinity, and also of the way that our knowing and loving the Son of Man is always an invitation to communion - with the Triune God, as the Body of Christ, and for the life of the world. Contributors to this collection explore some of the many registers of the mystery of Christ, both historically and thematically.
Resilience and Music in the Early Church
HARRISON, C
December 2019
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Biblical and Theological Visions of Resilience Pastoral and Clinical Insights
This book seeks to remedy this deficiency through a breadth of reflection upon human resilience from canonical biblical and Christian theological sources.
Religion
Reading Augustine: On Music, Sense, Affect, and Voice
HARRISON, C
June 2019
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Book
Mellifluous Music in Early Western Christianity
Harrison, C
September 2018
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Chapter
Songs Without Words: Some Theological Reflections on Liturgical Jazz
Harrison, C
August 2018
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Journal article
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Liturgical Jazz
'Doxology and Loving Knowledge in Augustine's De Doctrina Christiana book 1'
Harrison, C
June 2018
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Journal article
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Journal of Religion and Society
Worship as the Beginning and End of Preaching
Harrison, C
November 2017
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Conference paper
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Ministerium Sermonis
Patristic Studies in the Twenty-First Century Proceedings of an International Conference to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the International Association of Patristic Studies
Bitton-Ashkelony, B, Bruyn, TD, Harrison, C
August 2015
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Book
The theme of the conference was the state of patristic studies in the twenty-first century, focusing on the implications of the various settings and interests of patristic studies for the future of the field.
Religion
Getting Carried Away
Harrison, C
January 2015
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Journal article
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Augustinian Studies
Hugh Last Fellowship: Sensuous objects: Sense, image and representation in early Christian baptism
