Professor Paul Fiddes FBA

Modern theology; doctrine in the context of ideas of wisdom and suffering; the relation of theology to the philosophy and creative arts of late-modern culture, particularly in interface with literature

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2020
Subjects: Religion
Sections: Theology and Religious Studies
Website: https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-paul-fiddes

Current post

University of Oxford Professor of Systematic Theology

2007 -

Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford Director of Research

2007 -

Past appointments

Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford Principal

1989 - 2007

St Peter’s College, University of Oxford Lecturer in Theology

1979 - 1985

Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford Fellow in Christian Doctrine

1975 - 1989

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Douglas Davies FBA

The anthropology and sociology of ritual, symbolism, belief, and emotions. Mormonism; mortality, and funerary practices of burial and cremation. The theology of death. The relationship between anthropology and theology

Professor Alison Salvesen FBA

Early Jewish and Christian translation and reception of the Hebrew Bible (third century BCE – eighth century CE)

Professor David Shulman FBA

Pre-modern South Asian history and cultural history; languages and literatures of southern India (Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada); Sanskrit language and literature; Carnatic music; history of religion in South India; Tamil Islam; South Asian poetics; Sri Lankan Tamil

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