People
Meet the people who research, teach and serve in the School of Divinity. The School delivers one of the most highly-rated undergraduate programmes in theology in the country, and is known internationally for its graduate programmes and its research.
If you would like to contact the School, please see the contact page.
You can also find holders of key roles within the School.
Dr Joshua Cockayne
Lecturer in Analytic and Exegetical Theology
Analytic theology (particularly in topics related to liturgy, ecclesiology or spiritual practice), Kierkegaard.
Dr George Corbett
Senior Lecturer in Theology and the Arts
Theology and the arts across all periods; Medieval theology; Dante Studies; Aquinas?s theology and its influence; Catholic theology post-Vatican II.
Dr Euan Grant
Gifford Research Fellow
High, late, and post-mediaeval scholastic theology; the theological and ontological elements of Radical Orthodoxy; Catholic approaches to theological anthropology.
Dr Gavin Hopps
Senior Lecturer in Literature and Theology
Theology and the arts, with a particular focus on Romantic literature and contemporary popular music; the relationship between theology and humour.
Dr William Hyland
Lecturer in Church History
Medieval spirituality; Christian monastic spirituality of any era; the Premonstratensians; Bonaventure; Christian mysticism; Roman Catholic reform movements.
Dr Rebekah Lamb
Lecturer in Theology, Imagination and the Arts
Dr T.J. Lang
Senior Lecturer in New Testament
Pauline letters, biography, and traditions; Synoptic Gospels and John; early Christian hermeneutics; reception history; second-century Christianity; Christianity in the Greco-Roman world.
Dr King-Ho Leung
Research Fellow in Philosophical Theology
Contemporary continental philosophy; Philosophy as a way of life; Metaphysics; Philosophical theology; Philosophy of religion; Political theology
Dr Michael Lyons
Lecturer in Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
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.
Dr David M. Moffitt
Reader in New Testament
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.
Dr Madhavi Nevader
Lecturer in Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
Dr John Perry
Senior Lecturer in Theological Ethics
Theological ethics (evangelical, Anglican, Catholic moral theology); philosophical ethics (Locke, Hume, Mill, Singer); medical, sexual, political ethics.
Dr Jonathan Rutledge
Research Fellow (Logos)
Research Fellow in the Logos Institute for Analytic & Exegetical Theology
Prof Christoph Schwoebel
Professor of Systematic Theology
historical theology (the history, significance and impact of the doctrine of the Trinity; the theology of the Reformation and 17th century Protestant scholasticism; Protestant and Anglican theology and philosophy in the 19th and 20th century); systematic theology (Christian dogmatics, especially the doctrine of God, the theology of creation, Christology and theological anthropology); ethics (the theory of justice, the concept of freedom and the understanding of persons); philosophy of religion (revelation and rationality in historical and systematic perspective; theories of communicative rationality); theology of culture; theology in literature (especially John Donne and Thomas Mann); theology in music (especially Bach, Mendelssohn); the theory of pluralism; interreligious dialogue (the theory and practise of interreligious dialogue, especially with Judaism, Islam and Buddhism)
Dr Elizabeth Shively
Senior Lecturer in New Testament
Director of Teaching
Synoptic Gospels
Gospel of Mark in particular;
Genre of the Gospels;
Use of narrative analysis, rhetorical analysis, and/or cognitive linguistics in the interpretation of the Gospels;
Use of Scripture in the NT;
Relationship between the Synoptic Gospels and the Jewish and Christian apocalypses and testaments;
Concepts of sin and impurity in the Synoptic Gospels.
Dr Eric Stoddart
Lecturer in Practical Theology
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
- Scottish independence
- 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.
Dr William Tooman
Senior Lecturer in Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
Director of Research
Ancient Jewish interpretation; Torah (Pentateuch); Prophets; Inner-biblical Interpretation; Reuse of Scripture; Textual-criticism; Second Temple literature; Poetics of ancient Jewish Literature
Prof Alan Torrance
Professor of Systematic Theology
Philosophical, analytic and systematic theology; the doctrine of God; the person of Christ; the doctrines of reconciliation and atonement; theological anthropology; the socio-political implications of Christian doctrine; the epistemological and semantic conditions of exegetical theology; Karl Barth and his successors.
Dr Andrew Torrance
Senior Lecturer in Theology
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.
Mr Brendan N. Wolfe
Principal Editor of the St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
Honorary Reader
The St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology; the Gothic Version of the Bible; Patristics; Late Antique Religion.
Prof Judith Wolfe
Professor of Philosophical Theology
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