Theology and Religion

• Indian philosophy – with a particular focus on Vedāntic Bhedābheda metaphysics and classical ontologies
• Phenomenological traditions of philosophy – with a focus on the twentieth-century German tradition culminating in Philosophical Hermeneutics, and its roots
• Comparative or Global Philosophy, focusing on fundamental ontology and concepts of the Self
• Theories of religion, and of religious experience

Media and Public Engagement

• The BBC’s History of Ideas:
• Short articles at the Engelsberg Foundation
• The History of Philosophy without Any Gaps: Classical Hindu Philosophy
• Hans-Georg Gadamer and Religion

• Hindu Worldviews: Theories of Self, Ritual and Reality
• Categorisation in Indian Philosophy: Thinking inside the Box
• The Bloomsbury Companion to Hindu Studies
• “The Self in Meditation: The Art of Self-Transformation” in The Oxford Handbook of Meditation
• A Theory of Comparative Philosophy: The View from Above
• “Become This Whole World”: The Phenomenology of Metaphysical Religion in the Chandogya Upanisad

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).

• 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.

• Pauline Epistles
• Ancient Philosophy and Ethics
• Rhetoric
• Emotion
• Comparison

Recent publications:

‘“Our πολίτευμα Belongs in Heaven” (Phil 3:20): Comparing Paul’s and Seneca’s Narratives of Consolation’, Novum Testamentum 64.2 (2022): 249-266.

Forthcoming publication: 

Paul and Seneca within the Ancient Consolation Tradition: A Comparison, Novum Testamentum Supplements 193 (Leiden: Brill, 2024).