Mansfield People

Theology, philosophy, and religious history, with a focus on the interconnections between Christianity, European and American philosophy, and literature in modern culture.

• The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Christian Thought, co-edited with Judith Wolfe and Johannes Zachhuber (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)
• “The Transformation of Metaphysics.” In The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Christian Thought, ed. Joel D. S. Rasmussen, Judith Wolfe, and Johannes Zachhuber (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017) 11–34.
• “The Divine Attributes: Kierkegaard’s Broodings on the Godhead.” In The T&T Clark Companion to the Theology of Kierkegaard, ed. Aaron Edwards and David J. Gouwens, forthcoming from Bloomsbury T&T Clark.
• “Schelling and the New England Mind.” Forthcoming in the International Journal of Philosophy and Theology
• “Bunyan and America.” In The Oxford Handbook to John Bunyan, ed. Michael Davies and W. R. Owens (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).
• “Democratic Tendencies: Liberal Protestantism and the Growth of American Pluralism.” In Modern Intellectual History (Published online on 5 April 2017 by Cambridge University Press) 1–16: Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1017/S147924431700004X
• William James and the Transatlantic Conversation: Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Philosophy of Religion, co-edited with Martin Halliwel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
• “William James, A Pluralistic Universe, and the Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry.” In William James and the Transatlantic Conversation: Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Philosophy of Religion, ed. Martin Halliwell and Joel D. S. Rasmussen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
• “Kierkegaard, Hegelianism, and the Theology of Paradox” in The Impact of Idealism: The Legacy of Post-Kantian German Thought, volume 4, ed. Nicholas Adams, Nicholas Boyle, and Liz Disley (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
• “Mysticism as a Category of Inquiry in the Philosophies of Ernst Troeltsch and William James” in Exploring Lost Dimensions in Christian Mysticism: Opening to the Mystical, ed. Louise Nelstrop and Simon Podmore (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013).
•  “Paul Ricoeur on Kierkegaard, the Limits of Philosophy, and the Consolation of Hope”, in Kierkegaard’s Influence on Philosophy, ed. Jon Stewart (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011).
• “Poetry, Piety and Paideia in Kierkegaard’s Practice in Christianity”, in Kierkegaard Studies: Yearbook 2010, eds. Niels-Jørgen Cappelørn, Hermann Deuser and K. Brian Söderquist (Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010).
•  “Kierkegaard’s Biblical Hermeneutics”, in Kierkegaard’s Use of the Bible, ed. Lee Barrett (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010).
• “Shakespeare: Kierkegaard’s Post-Romantic Reception of the ‘Poet’s Poet.’” In Kierkegaard and the Modern Tradition, ed. Jon Stewart (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2010).
• Between Irony and Witness: Kierkegaard’s Poetics of Faith, Hope, and Love (New York & London: T&T Clark, 2005).

• Ancient Jewish and Christian interpretations of Scripture
• Jewish translations of the Bible into Greek, Aramaic, and Syriac
• St. Jerome’s Latin Vulgate and his knowledge of Hebrew
• The life and work of the late 7th century Syriac writer Jacob of Edessa.

• Oxford Handbook of the Septuagint (forthcoming in 2019), eds. A. G. Salvesen, T. M. Law, J. Joosten.
• ‘Symmachus in Hosea and Amos’, in Les Douze Prophètes dans la LXX. Protocoles et procedures dans la traduction grecque: stylistique, poétique et histoire, eds. C. Dogniez and Ph. Le Moigne. (Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2019), 308–324.
• ‘“Christ has subjected us to the harsh yoke of the Arabs”: The Syriac Exegesis of Jacob of Edessa in the New World Order” Exegetical Crossroads. Understanding Scripture in Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the Pre-Modern Orient, eds. R. Grundmann, A. E. Kattan, G. Tamer, and K. Pinggéra (Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2017), 145–162.
• ‘Late Syriac Translations of the Pentateuch’, Textual History of the Hebrew Bible, eds. A. Lange and E. Tov, vol. 1 (Leiden: Brill, 2017), 219–224.
• ‘The Lexicon of the Tabernacle accounts in the Syrohexapla Version of Exodus’ in Contemporary Examinations of Classical Languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac and Greek): Valency, Lexicography, Grammar, amd Manuscripts, eds. T. Lewis, A. Salvesen, and B. Turner.  PLAL 8 (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias, 2016), 187–200.
• ‘A “New Field” for the Twenty-First Century? Rationale for the Hexapla Project, and a Report on Its Progress’ in The Text of the Hebrew Bible and Its Editions. Studies in celebration of the Fifth Centennial of the Complutensian Polyglot, eds. A. Piqer Otero and P. Torijano Morales (Leiden: Brill, 2017) 286-309.

• Control over the interaction between light and matter at the quantum level
• Materials and devices for quantum optics and optoelectronics, primarily involving defects in diamond and semiconductor quantum dots
• Applications in quantum communications and computing
• Optical microsystems for quantum optics, chemical sensing and spectroscopy

• Pauline Epistles
• Patristic reception of the New Testament
• History of Interpretation
• Papyrological and epigraphic sources and the New Testament
• Sight and Sightlessness in the Ancient World

• 2022. “Trinity in the Making” in Bruce Longenecker and David Wilhite (ed), Cambridge History of Ancient Christianity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
• 2022. “Reconsidering Pauline Influence in Tatian” in David Wilhite (ed), Paul and the Apologists (London: Bloomsbury).
• 2021. “‘Resolve me of all ambiguities’: a review of Thomas McGlothlin’s Resurrection as Salvation” as part of a Syndicate Online
• Forum: https://syndicate.network/symposia/theology/resurrection-as-salvation/
• 2021. “A new methodology? Writing a collaborative commentary” in The Expository Times 132.1.
• 2020. “Farrer on St Paul” in Stephen Platten and Richard Harries (ed), Austin Farrer for Today (London: SCM).
• 2020. The First Letter of Peter: A Global Commentary, Jennifer Strawbridge (ed), (London: SCM Press).
• 2019. “Taking up Armour: The challenges of early Christian exegesis of Ephesians” in Studia Patristica 100; 19-38.
• 2019. “Making Christians and lifelong Catechesis” in Steven Croft (ed.) Rooted and Grounded: Faith formation and the Christian tradition. (London: SCM Press).
• 2019. Love Makes No Sense: An Introduction to Christian Theology, Jennifer Strawbridge, Peter Groves, Jarred Mercer (eds.) (London: SCM).
• 2018. Paul and Patristics Digital Database, https://paulandpatristics.web.ox.ac.uk.
• 2018. ‘Knowing and Loving the Triune God in the Pauline Epistles’ in George Westhaver (ed.) Knowing and Loving the Triune God (London: Canterbury Press).
• 2018. ‘The Image and Unity of God: The role of Colossians 1 in theological controversy’ in Christopher A. Beeley and Mark Weedman (eds.) The Bible and Early Trinitarian
• Theology (Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press).
• 2017. ‘How the Body of Lazarus Helps to Solve a Pauline Problem’ in New Testament Studies, Vol 63 (4), 588-603.
• 2017. ‘Early Christian Epigraphy, Evil, and the Apotropaic Function of Romans 8.31’ in Vigiliae Christianae, Vol 71, 315-329.
• 2016. ‘A School of Paul? Pauline Texts in Early Christian Schooltext Papyri.’ in Matthew Hauge and Andrew Pitts (eds.) Ancient Education and Early Christianity (LNTS; New York: T&T Clark).
• 2015. The Pauline Effect: The use of the Pauline Epistles by early Christian Writers (Berlin: De Gruyter).
• 2015. ‘The Songs we used to Sing: Hymn “Traditions” and Reception in Pauline Letters’ with Benjamin Edsall in Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Vol 37 (3), 290-311.

• Theoretical studies in atomic, nuclear and particle physics and quantum optics.

• Algebra
• Number Theory