PhD researchers

Meet our PhD researchers.

Ethics and Practical Theology

Name	Thesis title	Supervisors
Alicia Mendonca-Richards	Mystical approaches to economics in the Anthropocene	Professor Rachel Muers and Dr David Grummett
Andreas Bernberg	Theopolitical discernment in ecclesial practice	Dr Ulrich Schmiedel and Dr Joshua Ralston
Carolina Sanz de la Fuente	The Transhumanist Dilemma and the 21st-century Human-Machine Pathos	Dr David Grumett and Rev Dr Michael Fuller
Elisa Koch	Fragile Bodies, Fragile Boundaries: Towards a Comparative Theology of Vulnerability	Dr Ulrich Schmiedel and Dr Hannah Holtschneider
James Gaston	Saturating a Disenchanted World: De Lubac, Balthasar, Marion and the Call for a Theological Aesthetic	Dr David Grumett and Professor Rachel Muers
Johnny Lai	Reading Oliver O’Donovan’s Theology of ‘The Common Good’ in the Context of Hong Kong	Professor Rachel Muers and Dr David Grumett
Josie Gwin	Faith, Resilience and Mitigating Symptoms of Trauma in Individuals and Communities Impacted by Crisis and Disaster through the Development of Resilience	Dr Bethany Sollereder and Professor Liz Grant
Justin Eller	Acompañamiento: The Significance of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Accompaniment Model on Church Leadership and Mission in a Contemporary Context	Professor Rachel Muers and Dr Ulrich Schmiedel
Ryan Bennett	The Rise of the Christian Socialist Movement in the 20th Century with attention on William Temple and Dorothy Day	Dr David Grumett and Dr Ulrich Schmiedel
Stephen Dolan	Hungarian Political Theology: The Fundamental Law as the foundation of Christian Democracy in Orbán's Hungary	Dr Ulrich Schmiedel and Dr David Grumett
Stephen Noon	Scotland's 'new politics' as a politics of love	Dr Ulrich Schmiedel and Dr David Grumett
Tiffany Butler	Pre-Nicene and Post-Bolshevik Theologies of Movement	Dr Ulrich Schmiedel and Dr Alexandra Smith

Hebrew and Old Testament Studies

Name	Thesis title	Supervisors
Connor Boyd	A New Take on the New Covenant: The Reception of Jeremiah 31:31–34 in the Septuagint and Dead Sea Scrolls	Dr Anja Klein, Professor Matthew Novenson, and Professor Timothy Lim
Emily Allsopp	A Feminist-Literary Critical Analysis of the Female Body in the Reproductive Metaphors of Isaiah	Dr Anja Klein and Professor Timothy Lim
Ian Ewan	The Function of Qohelet's Consumption Language	Dr Suzanna Millar
Karen E Preston	Spatiality in the Book of Ruth	Dr Anja Klein and Dr Suzanna Millar
Luis A. Quiñones Roman	Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: A Reading of The Cuneiform and Biblical Laws in Narratives Materials (Genesis, Judges, and 2 Samuel)	Dr Anja Klein and Dr Suzanna Millar
Martial Bonvillain	March on My Soul with Strength – The Enduring Efficacy of the Song of Deborah in the Hebrew Bible	Dr Anja Klein and Dr Suzanna Millar
Rae Fujimori		Dr Suzanna Millar

History of Christianity

Name	Thesis title	Supervisors
Barbara F Bradley	The Possibilities of the Immaculate Conception Dogma in the Catholic Feminist Imagination	Dr Sara Parvis and Dr David Grumett
Caroline Collins	The Devil in The Marquis de Sade and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Literature From Periods of Political Revolution	Professor Alison Jack, Dr Felicity Loughlin and Dr Alexandra Smith
David Truschel	Honoring the Emperor: Reception of Conciliar and Imperial Themes in the Lutheran Reformation	Dr Simon Burton and Dr Felicity Loughlin
Emily Baylor	The Hydra: Social Purity in Britain, 1870-1914	Professor Alison Jack and Dr Felicity Loughlin
Emma Mavin	The Wound of Love: Erotic and Kenotic Pain in the Theology of John of the Cross	Dr Simon Burton, Dr Sara Parvis, and Dr PJ Lennon
Gillian Le Fevre	Representations of Women in the Exegetical Fragments of Hippolytus	Dr Philippa Townsend and Dr Sara Parvis
Kent Peters	Categorizing Christian and Roman Identities in Ancient Latin Apologetic Tradition	Dr Philippa Townsend and Dr Sara Parvis

Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations

Name	Thesis title	Supervisors
Ahmad Hakam	Christian and Islamic Religious Education Teacher Training Institutions: Case Studies of Perceiving Religious Others	Professor Mona Siddiqui and Dr Shadaab Rahemtulla
Ach Fatayillah Mursyidi	Islam and Science in Indonesia: Islamic Reconciliation of Darwinian Evolution in Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah	Dr Shadaab Rahemtulla and Professor Mark Harris
Anna Birawi	The journey to God - an exploration of the cultivation of faith in the Christian and Islamic traditions	Dr Joshua Ralston
Caleb Gilleland	Roadblocks and Possibilities in Muslim and Baha’i Dialogue with Christianity	Dr Joshua Ralston and Professor Matthew Novenson
Emmanuel Kwame Tettey	Theological and Developmental Implications of Church-based Financial Institutions in Ghana in the Light of Islamic Finance Experience	Dr Joshua Ralston and Dr Barbara Bompani
Lujain Beruwien	Navigating Libyan Isms: Between Islamism, Secularism and Feminism	Dr Shadaab Rahemtulla and Professor Mona Siddiqui
Michael A. Harris	The Orphan and Adoption Practices among Catholic Christians and Sunni Muslims: Scripture, Tradition, and Experience	Professor Mona Siddiqui and Dr David Grumett
Nathan Dever	Spiritual Expats: Missions and the Evangelical Church in the Modern United Arab Emirates	Dr Joshua Ralston and Professor Brian Stanley
Olly Davies	The Role and Function of Mosque Space: A Comparative Study of Edinburgh and Glasgow	Dr Shadaab Rahemtulla and Dr Steven Sutcliffe
Philip Duncan Peters	Monotheism and Christology: Constructing a Contextual Christology for Christian Muslim Dialogue from Luke-Acts	Dr Joshua Ralston and Dr Matthew Novenson
Sharaiz Chaudhry	Islamic Liberation Theology in Practice: A Comparative Analysis of British Muslims’ Activism Against Class Inequality	Dr Shadaab Rahemtulla and Dr Joshua Ralston
Whitney Buchanan	Muslim Women Leaders in the United States and Germany	Dr Ulrich Schmiedel and Dr Joshua Ralston

New Testament and Christian Origins

Name	Thesis title	Supervisors
Axolile N. M. Qina	The Dilemma of Jesus’ Sacrifice: Towards a Xhosa Christian Hermeneutic for Animal Sacrifice	Professor Helen Bond and Professor Emma Wild-Wood
Corinne Samuelson	Humble in a Proud World: A Sociorhetorical Comparative Study of Power in Mark, Paul, and Cicero	Professor Paul Foster and Professor Helen Bond
Daisy Andoh	Liberating Jesus: Messianism and Racial Justice in the Book of Revelation	Professor Matthew Novenson and Dr Philippa Townsend
Daniel Lam	Metamorphosis in Ancient Judaism	Professor Matthew Novenson
Daniel Mikkelsen	What is the specific material of the resurrection body in Paul and how does it affect salvation?	Professor Matthew Novenson
David Z Blackwell	The Gospel of Matthew's Use of the Psalms	Professor Paul Foster
David A. Burnett	Resurrection and the Death of the Gods: Rival Jewish Reception of the Patriarchal Promises and the Argument of 1 Corinthians 15	Professor Matthew Novenson and Dr. J. Thomas Hewitt
Edward Wong	Representations of Trauma in the Fourth Gospel	Professor Helen Bond and Professor Alison Jack
Fangzhou (Christine) Song	The Christology of the Epistle of Barnabas	Professor Paul Foster and Dr Matthew Novenson
Hyun Bo Sim		Professor Paul Foster
Julia Mayo	The Women of Acts: Studies in Ancient Characterization	Professor Helen Bond and Professor Alison Jack
Kendall A. Davis	Messianic Christology according to Luke: "Christos" in Luke and Acts	Professor Matthew Novenson and Professor Alison Jack
Manse Rim	Messiah and Righteousness In Paul and His Context	Professor Matthew Novenson and Professor Paul Foster
Mireia (Mia) Vidal i Quintero	The Empty Tomb Tradition. Its Origins and Early Development in Light of Ritual Lamentation and Cultural Trauma Theory	Professor Helen Bond and Dr Suzanna Millar
Naomi Reiss	Prisoners of Christ: Incarceration in Early Christian Literature	Professor Matthew Novenson and Dr Philippa Townsend
Paul Wilson	Migration in the Book of Acts	Professor Helen Bond and Dr Philippa Townsend
Zachary L. McNeal	Paul in Nag Hammadi	Professor Matthew Novenson

Religious Studies/ Study of Religions

Name	Thesis title	Supervisors
Anand Ranjan	Onlife Hinduism: Pilgrimage and Everyday Experiences in Gaya, India	Dr Arkotong Longkumer and Dr Christopher Barrie
Carlos Garcia-Jane	Iconicity, embodiment, and textualisation in Buddhist textual practices	Dr Naomi Appleton and Dr Halle O'Neal
Ishita Mahajan	Narratives and Nationalism: the village-deities of Kullu, India	Dr Arkotong Longkumer and Dr Naomi Appleton
James Carrigy	Use of Cinema in Jewish Decontextualization 1945-1960	Professor Hannah Holtschneider
Joseph Sedgwick	The relationship between online and in person activity in the formation of contemporary Scottish Pagans’ religious identities	Dr Steven Sutcliffe
Marissa Clarke	Sensing Yoga Bodies	Dr Steven Sutcliffe, Dr Linda O Keeffe and Dr Arkotong Longkumer
Mary Briggs	Opaque Citizens: An Exploration of How the Shincheonji Church of Jesus Unsettles the South Korean State	Dr Steven Sutcliffe and Dr Arkotong Longkumer
Rusha Jin	Zhanran's Citations in the Zhiguan fuxing chuanhongjue 止觀輔行傳弘決	Dr Naomi Appleton and Professor Joachim Gentz
Samuel Horsley	Through the body of the teacher: the pedagogy of religious knowledge in modern postural yoga	Dr Steven Sutcliffe and Dr Arkotong Longkumer
Téa Nicolae	The Goddess's Descent to Earth: In Dialogue with the Reimaginations of the Mahābhārata's Draupadī	Professor Naomi Appleton and Dr. Hephzibah Israel

Science and Religion

Name	Thesis title	Supervisors
Allan Furic	Varieties of theories of the whole in Quantum mechanics and Buddhist philosophy: An intuitive convergence of the interconnectedness of reality?	Professor Mark Harris and Rev Dr Michael Fuller
Edward DeLaquil	God, science, and truth: A signpost theory of truth for science and religion	Professor Mark Harris and Dr Bethany Sollereder
Esgrid Sikahall	A Gadamerian Approach to Science and Religion Historiographies	Professor Mark Harris and Rev Dr Michael Fuller
Gareth T. Richards	To what extent can mass-extinctions be reconciled with belief in God?	Dr Bethany Sollereder and Rev Dr Michael Fuller
Marie Prins	The Role of Religion In Post- and Metamodern Fantasy Literature in Relation to the Disenchantment of the World	Rev Dr Michael Fuller and Dr Linden Bicket
Paul E. Johnson, Sr.	Talking with God: Prayer and Inspiration in the Golden Age of Neuroscience	Professor Mark Harris and Rev Dr Michael Fuller

Systematic Theology

Name	Thesis title	Supervisors
Arthur Rankin	John Calvin's Use of the Book of Hebrews	Dr James Eglinton and Dr Simon Burton
David Meinberg	God and the Public World: How Bavinck’s Doctrine of God Shaped his Public Theology	Dr James Eglinton and Dr Ulrich Schmiedel
Hunter Nicholson	The Doctrine of Divine Passibility in the Work of Donald Macleod (1940-)	Dr James Eglinton and Dr Simon Burton
Israel Guerrero Leiva	Herman Bavinck’s Reformed piety: covenantal, experiential and holistic	Dr James Eglinton and Dr Simon Burton
Ragaai Atia	Religion Reconsidered: A Contemporary Exploration of Abraham Kuyper’s Calvinist Concept of Religion and Reflections on Islam	Dr James Eglinton and Dr Joshua Ralston
Rev Matthew Baines	Gisbertus Voetius's (1589-1676) Doctrine of Participation: Its Scholastic and Mystical Sources	Dr Simon Burton and Dr James Eglinton
Samuel Jacobs	The post-war political theology of the Satmar Rebbe, Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum	Professor Hannah Holtschneider and Dr Joshua Ralston
Sebastian Bjernegård	Participation and Covenant: Man’s Relation with God in the Theology of Herman Bavinck	Dr James Eglinton and Dr Simon Burton

World Christianity

Name	Thesis title	Supervisors
Agana-Nsiire Agana	A Digital Theological Investigation of Identity Among Ghana's Christian Youth	Dr Alexander Chow and Professor Emma Wild-Wood
Alison Zilversmit	The Development of "Development"-in-Mission: Christian Transnational Aid in USPG from 1947 to 2020	Professor Emma Wild-Wood and Dr Alex Chow
David Munro Lewis	Theology and Ecology in Chryssavgis, Maathai and Johnsen: A World Christianity Perspective	Dr Alexander Chow and Professor Emma Wild-Wood
Dingjian Xie	Jingjiao Theology: Translation, Doctrine and Religious Practice in Tang China (618-907)	Dr Alexander Chow and Dr Sara Parvis
Dongjun Seo	The Search for Interdenominational Co-operation and Unity among Korean Evangelicals, 1945-1997	Professor Brian Stanley and Dr Alexander Chow
Elilo Ezung	The Holy Spirit among the Nagas: COntouring Pneumatology in Context	Dr Alexander Chow and Dr Arkotong Longkumer
G. Ray Burbank II	The Cross-Cultural Transmission of Evangelical Conversion Theology in Nineteenth-Century Western India	Dr Alexander Chow and Dr Felicity Loughlin
Jackie Jia Chyi Hwang	Migration, Multiple Belonging, and Transnational Chinese Christianity: An Ethnographic Study of Mainland Chinese Students’ Shifting Conception of “Family” as Religious and Cultural Negotiations within Singapore’s Christian Communities	Professor Emma Wild-Wood and Dr Alexander Chow
John S. Munayer	Palestinian Religion: Rethinking Methods and Sources for Palestinian Theology	Dr Joshua Ralston and Dr Alex Chow
Nuam Hatzaw	An Asian Feminist Theology of In-betweenness from the Perspective of Zomi Migrant Women	Professor Emma Wild-Wood and Dr Alexander Chow
Rathiulung Elias KC	Jisu Krista in the Land of the Rongmei Nagas in Manipur, Northeast India	Dr Alexander Chow and Dr Arkotong Longkumer
Victoria Turner	Overcoming Colonialism and Classism: Exploring Shifting Theologies and Practices of Mission in the Iona Community and Council for World Mission	Professor Brian Stanley and Professor Emma Wild-Wood
Zihao He	Heavenly Mandate, Demons, and the Killing for the Great Peace: How was the anti-Manchu Violence Constructed in the theology of the Taiping Rebellionn and translated into Practice?	Dr Alexander Chow and Professor Jolyon Mitchell

This article was published on 2024-03-19