Stanley Martin Hauerwas is an American theologian,ethicist,and public intellectual. Hauerwas originally taught at the University of Notre Dame before moving to Duke University. Hauerwas was a longtime professor at Duke,serving as the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School with a joint appointment at the Duke University School of Law. In the fall of 2014,he also assumed a chair in theological ethics at the University of Aberdeen. Hauerwas is considered by many to be one of the world's most influential living theologians and was named "America's Best Theologian" by Time magazine in 2001. He was also the first American theologian to deliver the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland in over forty years. His work is frequently read and debated by scholars in fields outside of religion or ethics,such as political philosophy,sociology,history,and literary theory. Hauerwas has achieved notability outside of academia as a public intellectual,even appearing on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Alister Edgar McGrath is a Northern Irish theologian,Anglican priest,intellectual historian,scientist,Christian apologist,and public intellectual. He currently holds the Andreas Idreos Professorship in Science and Religion in the Faculty of Theology and Religion,and is a fellow of Harris Manchester College at the University of Oxford,and is Professor of Divinity at Gresham College. He was previously Professor of Theology,Ministry,and Education at King's College London and Head of the Centre for Theology,Religion and Culture,Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Oxford,and was principal of Wycliffe Hall,Oxford,until 2005.
Sir Iain Richard Torrance,is a retired Church of Scotland minister,theologian and academic. He is Pro-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen,Honorary Professor of Early Christian Doctrine and Ethics at the University of Edinburgh,President and Professor of Patristics Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary,and an Extra Chaplain to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in Scotland. He was formerly Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland,Dean of the Chapel Royal in Scotland,and Dean of the Order of the Thistle. He is married to Morag Ann,whom he met while they were students at the University of St Andrews,and they have two children.
Max Lynn Stackhouse was the Rimmer and Ruth de Vries Professor of Reformed Theology and Public Life Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary. He was ordained in the United Church of Christ and was the president of the Berkshire Institute for Theology and the Arts.
Martha Reeves is a vowed Anglican solitary,with Rowan Williams,the former Archbishop of Canterbury,as bishop-protector. A graduate of the Madeira School,she is also a Stanford-educated professor of theology who has written numerous articles and books under the name "Maggie Ross" as well as translated a number of Carthusian Novice Conferences. Reeves,at one time Desmond Tutu's spiritual director,was Bell Distinguished Professor in Anglican and Ecumenical Studies appointed to the Department of Philosophy and Religion,Kendall College of Arts and Sciences,The University of Tulsa. In 1995,"A Rite for Contemplative Eucharist" emerged while being a theologian-in-residence in an Episcopal church in the Diocese of Southern Ohio. In March 2008,she donated 'silence' to the Museum of Curiosity.. Ross as an interviewee also shared about silence in the 2015 documentary In Pursuit of Silence directed by Patrick Shen. In October 2016,she gave the lecture "Healing Silence' at Durham University for its "Spirituality,Theology,and Health Seminar Series." The Hay Festival has been an event for presenting about the 'work of silence' under the topic title "Maggie Ross Talks to Rachael Kerr". She was an attendee of the 2018 Epiphany Conference on science and religion,a collaborative initiative between the Cambridge Epiphany Philosophers and the Oxford Monastic Institute. The 'work of silence' has touched grounds for many years now through the ravenwilderness blogspot, and an index of posts from 2006 to 2013 can be viewed from here and the entries from 2013 to 2020 here. The British &Irish Association for Practical Theology (BIAPT) had a planned inaugural event for its Spirituality Interest Special Group in 2020,with Ross as keynote speaker but was postponed. The keynote address "Silent Ways of Knowing" had been shared in four parts in Ross's blog. Reeves lives in Oxford,the United Kingdom,where a number of sermons and talks had been shared through the years in churches and academia around the area.
Peter W. Ochs is the Edgar M. Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies at the University of Virginia,where he has served since 1997. He is an influential thinker whose interests include Jewish philosophy and theology,modern and postmodern philosophical theology,pragmatism,and semiotics. Ochs coined the term "scriptural reasoning" and is the co-founder of the Society for Scriptural Reasoning,which promotes interfaith dialog among Christians,Jews,and Muslims through scriptural study groups. He is also a co-founder of the Children of Abraham Institute,which promotes interfaith study and dialog among members of the Abrahamic religions.
Gary John Dorrien is an American social ethicist and theologian. He is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York and Professor of Religion at Columbia University,both in New York City,and the author of 18 books on ethics,social theory,philosophy,theology,politics,and intellectual history.
Christopher Kennedy Huebner is an associate professor of theology and philosophy at Canadian Mennonite University,as well as co-editor of Herald Press's Polyglossia series.
James M. Gustafson was an American theological ethicist. He received an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Theology at Uppsala University in 1985. He has held teaching posts at Yale Divinity School and the Department of Religious Studies (1955–1972),the University of Chicago as professor of theological ethics in the Divinity School (1972–1988),and Emory University as the Henry R. Luce Professor of Humanities and Comparative Studies. He retired in 1998 after 43 years of teaching and research,after being Woodruff Professor of Comparative Studies and of Religion in the Emory College and Graduate School of Arts &Sciences. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award for "creative and lasting contributions to the field of Christian ethics" on January 7,2011,at the annual meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics in New Orleans.
Amos Yong is a Malaysian-American Pentecostal theologian and Professor of Theology and Mission at Fuller Theological Seminary. He has been Dean of School of Theology and School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Seminary,since July 1,2019.
Anthony Oliver Davies is a British systematic theologian. He has made contributions to the study of medieval mysticism,early medieval Welsh and Irish spirituality,and contemporary Systematic Theology. He presently works in the fields of neuroscience,theology and social transformation. Davies is the originator together with Paul Janz and Clemens Sedmak of ‘Transformation Theology’. Since 2004 he has held the chair of Christian Doctrine at King's College London,as a Roman Catholic layman. He is founding director of the Centre for Social Transformation at King's College London,which specializes in the development of 'global' or 'ecumenical' understandings of the self in the light of comparative philosophy,traditional philosophies and new advances in the neurology of social cognition.
Samuel Martin Bailey Wells is an English priest of the Church of England. Since 2012,he has been the vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields in central London,and Visiting Professor of Christian Ethics at King's College London. In 2018,he was installed as Honorary Canon Theologian of Guildford Cathedral.
Michael Stafford Northcott is Professor Emeritus of Ethics at the University of Edinburgh,Scotland. He is best known for his contributions to environmental theology and ethics.
Paul T Nimmo is a Scottish theologian who holds the position of King’s Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Aberdeen.
John Swinton,is a Scottish theologian,academic,and Presbyterian minister. He is the Chair in Divinity and Religious Studies at the School of Divinity,History,and Philosophy,University of Aberdeen. John is founder of the university's Centre for Spirituality,Health and Disability.
The intersection of disability and religion concerns the manner in which disabled people are treated within religious communities,the religious texts of those religions,or the general input from religious discourse on matters relating to disability. Studies on the relationship between religion and disability vary widely,with some postulating the existence of ableism and others viewing religion as a primary medium through which to assist disabled people. Religious exhortation often prompts adherents to treat people with disabilities with deference,however when the disability constitutes a mental illness such an approach may be slanted with an acknowledgement of the latter's naivete. In religions with an eschatological belief in divine judgment,there are often traditions promulgating an exemption from judgement in the afterlife for mentally disabled people,as well as for children who die before reaching maturity due to both lacking an understanding of their actions in a manner analogous to the insanity defense. Regarding the rationale behind God's creation of disabled people,some religions maintain that their contrast with the non-disabled permits the non-disabled to reflect and God to subsequently assess the level of gratitude shown by each individual for their health.
David L. Clough is a British author and academic with a focus on the Christian vegetarian and Christian vegan movements. He is Professor in Theology and Applied Sciences at the University of Aberdeen and a Methodist preacher. He is also the founder and a co-director of the CreatureKind project which focuses on the welfare of farmed animals as a faith issue.
Jonathan Tran is a Vietnamese-American theologian,and currently holds the George W. Baines Chair of Religion at Baylor University.
Philip G. Ziegler is a Canadian-born theologian who holds a personal chair as Professor in Christian Dogmatics at the University of Aberdeen. He is author of numerous scholarly articles,books,and has led various research projects within contemporary dogmatics,the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer,as well as theological reflection on New Testament apocalyptic. He maintains a personal website:Theologia Borealis.
Michael Mawson is the Maclaurin Goodfellow Associate Professor of Theological and Religious Studies at University of Auckland,a post that has previously been held by Elaine Wainwright and Joseph Bulbulia. He is an international expert on the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and has published widely in the area of Christian Ethics.
