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Prof Trevor Hart – Director of ITIA
Trevor Hart is Professor of Divinity and Director of ITIA. Prof Hart studied theology at Durham and Aberdeen, and it was during undergraduate studies in Durham in the 1970s that his interest in the relationship between theology and the arts was first kindled. Before moving to St Andrews in 1995, he spent nine years as Lecturer in Systematic Theology in the University of Aberdeen. His research interests lie chiefly in modern theology, and since moving to St Andrews his work has concentrated increasingly on the nature and roles of human imagination (including creative and artistic imagination). He is currently working on a major project relating aspects of human artistry to the Christian doctrines of creation and the incarnation, and exploring the claim that imagination may be a primary locus of God's redemptive activity in the world. He has lectured widely on these themes in the UK and North America.
Prof Hart welcomes applications for postgraduate research on any aspect of the relationship between Christian theology and the imagination. Presently, he is particularly interested in receiving applications to work on the interface between theology and literature, painting or theatre.
Sam Adams (jointly with Dr Grant Macaskill) - Creation and Order: An Apocalyptic Re-imagining
Paul Blair (jointly with Michael Partridge) - The theological contribution of Charles Williams
Anna Blanch (jointly with Dr Gavin Hopps) – The theology of E. Nesbit
Travis Buchanan (jointly with Dr Gavin Hopps) - Mythopoeia in Lewis and Tolkien
Jenn Craft - Making a Place on Earth: A Theology of Place and Artistic Making
Emily Hearn - Seeing the Divine: A Christian Hindu Theology of Visual Art
Lori Kanitz (jointly with Dr Gavin Hopps) – Annie Dillard and the influence of Jewish mysticism
Cole Matson - Towards a Eucharistic Theatre: Communion and the Moral Responsibility of the Theatre Artist
Dave Reinhardt (jointly with Michael Partridge) - A Dramatic Turn of Events: An Exercise in Theatrical Hermeneutics in the Gospel of John
(jointly with Michael Partridge)
Wesley Vander Lugt - Available Actors, Appropriate Action: Theotheatrical Preparation and Performance
Tanya Walker - A Theology of Ephemerality
Other research projects he has supervised include:
- Carmen Universitatis: a theological study of music and measure.
- Imago Mundi ex Image Deo: aesthetic unity in the works of St Anselm of Canterbury.
- An interaction of theology and literature by means of archetypal criticism with reference to the characters Jesus, Pilate, Thomas, the Jews and Peter in the Gospel of John.
- A double knowledge: self and God in Samuel Beckett and C. S. Lewis.
- The Son and other stars: christology and cosmology in the imagination of C. S. Lewis.
- Detritus and the ritualized theatre of the modern west.
- Divine reckonings in profane spaces: towards a theological dramaturgy for the theatre.
- Mary Magdalene, Franciscan ideal: a theological analysis of the frescoes in the Magdalene Chapel in the Basilica of St Francis of Assisi.
See more of Prof Hart's profile at the St Mary's College website.
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