Prof Mario I Aguilar
Potential supervision topics
Religion and Politics in the non-Western world; Interreligious Dialogue; Christian- Buddhist and Christian-Hindu dialogue; History of Hinduism and Buddhism; Art and Temples in India; Hindu and Buddhist texts; Churches and Theology in Africa, Asia and Latin America; Tibetan Buddhism and the history of the Dalai Lamas; Islam in Africa; Somalia and Somaliland, Kenya, Rwanda.
Contact
Email: mia2@st-andrews.ac.uk
Prof George Corbett
Potential supervision topics
Aquinas's theology and its influence; Dante Studies (particularly Dante's theology); Medieval theology; 19th-21st century Catholic theology (particularly the Leonine renaissance in Thomistic Studies, and the history of Catholic theology up to and including Vatican II and its reception); theology of music and sacred music; theological aesthetics, and theology and the arts across all periods.
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Prof Oliver Crisp
Potential supervision topics
Analytic theology, philosophical theology, philosophy of religion, systematic theology, historical theology, and the relation between legal theory and theology.
Contact
Email: odc@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Dafydd Daniel
Potential supervision topics
Moral theology and moral philosophy; political theology and political philosophy; Christian ethics and practical ethics (sexual, medical, environmental, and political ethics); historical theology, church history, and intellectual history, with a particular focus on the early modern period; history of Western philosophy and theology; history of Western ethical and political thought; European and American Enlightenment studies; religion and science, religion and politics, philosophy and religion in the British Enlightenment; 18th century Scottish theology and philosophy; philosophy of religion; theology and philosophy of education; theories of conscience; historical and contemporary debates in land ownership; religion in the media; material culture.
Contact
Email: demd1@st-andrews.ac.uk
Rev Dr Stephen Holmes
Potential supervision topics
The history of the Baptist movement; the history of Reformed theology, particularly in its early modern forms; the doctrine of God; atonement and soteriology; human sexuality.
Contact
Email: sh80@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Gavin Hopps
Potential supervision topics
Theology and the arts, with a particular focus on Romantic literature and contemporary popular music; the relationship between theology and humour.
Contact
Email: grh10@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr William Hyland
Potential supervision topics
Medieval spirituality; Christian monastic spirituality of any era; the Premonstratensians; Bonaventure; Christian mysticism; Roman Catholic reform movements; Mariology.
Contact
Email: wph3@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Rebekah Lamb
Potential supervision topics
Religion, Literature and Visual Culture, with on late modernity; Theological Aesthetics; Christian Personalism; Catholic Social Teaching; Literary Criticism; Canadian literature and visual culture
Contact
Email: rl89@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr T.J. Lang
Potential supervision topics
Pauline letters, biography, and traditions; Synoptic Gospels and John; early Christian hermeneutics; reception history; second-century Christianity; Christianity in the Greco-Roman world.
Contact
Email: tjl5@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Michael Lyons
Potential supervision topics
Hebrew Bible; text-referencing and allusion in the literature of ancient Israel, the Second Temple period, and early Christianity; Hebrew poetry; compositional strategy in prophetic literature; the book of Ezekiel; history of interpretation.
Contact
Email: mal26@st-andrews.ac.uk
Prof David M. Moffitt
Potential supervision topics
Earliest Christians’ understanding of Jesus and their own identities in relation to Jewish scripture, practices and beliefs; The use of the Old Testament in the New; The Epistle to the Hebrews; The Gospel of Matthew; Interpretations of early Christian claims about Jesus’ person, death, resurrection and ascension; Jewish and Christian conceptions of priesthood and sacrifice; Ancient concepts of ritual and sacrifice.
Contact
Email: dm206@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Madhavi Nevader
Potential supervision topics
Hebrew Bible; Kingship and Messianism; HB/OT Historiography; Ancient Near Eastern Religious Thought; Religion and Mythology; Book of Deuteronomy; Book of Ezekiel; Political Theory and the Hebrew Bible
Contact
Email: mn47@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr John Perry
Potential supervision topics
theological ethics: evangelical, Anglican, Catholic philosophical ethics: Locke, Hume, Mill, Singer applied ethics: medical, sexual, political
Contact
Email: jmp24@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Matthew Sharp
Potential supervision topics
Pauline Epistles; Early Christian engagement with Graeco-Roman religion and philosophy; Biblical Cosmologies; Ancient Prophecy and Divination; Divinity and Materiality; Comparative Methodology.
Contact
Email: mts21@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Eric Stoddart
Potential supervision topics
Surveillance Studies: surveillance and religion - of religious groups and by religious groups; surveillance and governance - especially of well-being; theological critiques of surveillance; (in)visibility as a strategy of response to surveillance. Practical Theology: public practical theology; methodology; regarding surveillance; pastoral care, particularly with respect to toxic spirituality or radical hermeneutics (e.g. feminism, queer theology). I am interested in supervising PhD projects in any of these areas.
Contact
Email: es61@st-andrews.ac.uk
Prof William Tooman
Potential supervision topics
Ancient Jewish interpretation; Torah (Pentateuch); Prophets; Inner-biblical Interpretation; Reuse of Scripture; Textual-criticism; Second Temple literature; Poetics of ancient Jewish Literature; Ruth; Esther
Contact
Email: wt21@st-andrews.ac.uk
Prof Andrew Torrance
Potential supervision topics
Systematic theology, as this includes analytic, exegetical, and philosophical theology; Christian doctrine, particularly the doctrine of creation, Christology, theological anthropology, revelation, pneumatology, and faith; 19th and 20th century Christian thought, especially Søren Kierkegaard, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Karl Barth; philosophy of religion, particularly religious experience and the nature of religious belief; science and theology.
Contact
Email: abt3@st-andrews.ac.uk
Prof Judith Wolfe
Potential supervision topics
Systematic and philosophical theology, especially eschatology, theological anthropology, and theological aesthetics; theology and European philosophy, especially Heidegger and his circle; Thomas Aquinas and his modern interpreters; theology and the arts (especially image and imagination; theatre and theatricality; Shakespeare); CS Lewis and his intellectual circle; modern Jewish Christianity