Research Area(s):
Historic and Systematic Theology, History of Christianity.
Research Interests:
Christian Doctrine, Hamartiology, Martin Luther, Soteriology, Theology and Literature, Comedy, Dostoevsky.
Current Projects:
Theology and Comedy – a project looking for resources for thinking about hope and grace at from intersection between theology and comic literature and theory.
Biography:
I grew up in Edinburgh, and came to Oxford to study my first degree in History (at St Peter's). After graduating I worked for 5 years as a youth worker in an Anglican Switzerland, before going to Cambridge in 2017 to study to become a priest in the Church of England. Getting back into the library made me realise what I had been missing, so I stayed on to do a PhD in Theology at Peterhouse, whilst also serving a curacy. I then worked for a year as assistant chaplain at Jesus College (Cambridge), before coming to Oxford to take up the post of Chaplain and Career Development Fellow in 2024.
Educational Background:
PhD in Divinity, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge
MPhil in Christian Theology, Trinity College, University of Cambridge (Distinction)
BA in Theological and Religious Studies, Trinity College, University of Cambridge (First with distinction)
MA in History, St Peter’s College, University of Oxford, First.
Recent Publications:
Sin and Theory: Martin Luther’s Doctrine of Sin in Dialogue with Contemporary Critical Theory (T & T Clark, Forthcoming). Winner of the Lautenschlaeger International Prize for Theological Promise
“Paranoia and the Law: Martin Luther and Critical Theory in Hermeneutical Dialogue.” Scottish Journal of Theology 75, no. 2 (2022): 104–16.
“‘Experience Alone Makes the Theologian’: A Constructive Retrieval of Luther’s Theology of Experience.” The Global Anglican 135, no. 3 (2021): 248–63.
