Professor Christopher Southgate

MA PhD

Professor of Christian Theodicy

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01392 724194

Overview

Professor Christopher Southgate trained originally as a research biochemist. He has taught for the Dept on the science-religion debate (and related areas such as environmental ethics) since 1993. His research interests include the problem of suffering in evolution, the concept of glory in the natural world and in religious poetry, tragic events affecting church congregations, and the science of the origin of life.

Chris teaches the undergraduate modules 'Evolution, God and Gaia' and 'Big Questions in Science and Religion’. He has ten research students at present, and welcomes enquiries from others interested in his areas of expertise.

Chris's book 'The Groaning of Creation: God, Evolution and the Problem of Evil' was published by Westminster John Knox Press in 2008, and has become a seminal work on suffering in creation. He is also the editor of 'God, Humanity and the Cosmos' (Continuum, 3rd edition 2011), a standard text in the science-religion field. His most recent book is 'Theology in a Suffering World: Glory and Longing' (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Chris is also the author of eight collections of poetry, the most recent being 'Rain Falling by the River (Canterbury, 2017) and 'Chasing the Raven' (Shoestring, 2016). For more information see Chris's website www.christophersouthgate.org.uk.

Research

The interaction of evolutionary theory with Christian theology. See evolutionarytheodicy.org for a current project funded by a British Academy small grant.

The origin of life as a problem in science, theology and philosophy.

Environmental ethics in relation to Christian theology, with particular reference to the climate emergency.

The poetry of T.S. Eliot, G.M.Hopkins and R.S.Thomas.

The concept of 'glory' in the Bible and tradition.

Ministerial responses to tragedies in congregations (see tragedyandcongregations.org.uk for a project funded by the Templeton World Charities Foundation Inc. from 2017-21)

Research collaborations

Chris has a long-time collaboration with Dr Andrew Robinson, Honorary University Fellow in the Dept. Robinson and Southgate were one of only two teams in the world to gain all three rounds of funding in the Science and Transcendence Advanced Research Series (www.ctnsstars.org).

Chris also worked with the Revd Canon Dr Carla Grosch-Miller, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Dept, and the Revd Hilary Ison, on a project on tragedies in congregations, funded by the Templeton World Charities Foundation.

Chris serves on the committee of the T.S. Eliot Society and is active in exploring new conversations about the life and work of the poet.

Supervision

I am currently first supervisor for

one full-time student working on the Book of Job in relation to trauma theory

one full-time student working on ecotheological justice in relation to climate aid

one full-time student exploring the theology of permaculture

one part-time student exploring the relation of God to non-human animals

one part-time student researching the origins of human sin

one part-time student working on ecospirituality

one part-time student exploring the links between poetry and natural theology

one part-time student exploring new directions in the theodicy of natural evil

I am also second supervisor for a range of other projects.

I am open to receiving research proposals in the areas of the sciences' dialogue with Christian theology, environmental ethics, practical theology for ministry, and the interface of poetry with theology.

Research students

Recently graduated students:

Dr Bethany Sollereder (now at Oxford) on evolutionary theodicy

Mr Derek White (MbyRes) also on evolutionary theodicy

Ms Ellen Lesser (MbyRes) on science-theology relationships

The Revd Prebendary Dr Tony Kyriakides-Yeldham on healthcare chaplaincy

Dr Joel Parkyn on extra-terrestrial life

The Revd Dr Stephen Goundrey-Smith on transhumanism

Dr Sally Long on poetry and the Ignatian Exercises

Mr Gareth Richards (MbyRes) on the theological ethics of de-extinction

Publications

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2024

Southgate C. (2024) Creation beyond Nothing and Now: eschatological reflections in the climate emergency, Science, Religion, the Humanities and Hope, Springer, 87-102.
Southgate C. (2024) Values and disvalues in Creation, T&T Clark Handbook of the Doctrine of Creation, T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, 459-471.

2023

Southgate C. (2023) Science and Theodicy, T&T Clark Handbook of Suffering and the Problem of Evil, T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, 460-468.
Southgate C. (2023) Presian Renee Burroughs, Creation’s Slavery and Liberation: Paul’s Letter to Rome in the Face of Imperial and Industrial Agriculture, Theology, volume 126, pages 291-292.
Southgate C. (2023) Five Poems, Theology, volume 126, pages 130-134.
Southgate C. (2023) Why Christians should believe in Heaven for Animals, Animal Watch, volume 113, pages 12-12.
Southgate C. (2023) Green Christian, Green Christian, volume 95, pages 4-5.

2022

Southgate C. (2022) GOD AND A WORLD OF NATURAL EVIL: THEOLOGY AND SCIENCE IN HARD CONVERSATION: with Christopher Southgate, “God and a World of Natural Evil: Theology and Science in Hard Conversation” and Andrew Davison, “Theodicy and What Could Be Otherwise: A Response to Christopher Southgate.”, Zygon, volume 57, no. 4, pages 1124-1134, DOI:10.1111/zygo.12849.
Southgate C. (2022) A sound-world for deranged times, The Church Times, volume 8331, pages 16-16.
Southgate C. (2022) Review of Simon Conway Morris, From Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds, Reviews in Science and Religion, pages 19-21.
Richards G. (2022) To what extent can de-extinction be theologically and morally justified?.
Southgate C. (2022) Afterword, Science and Religion in Western Literature, Routledge, 169-176.
Robinson A, Southgate C. (2022) Constraint-evading surrogacy: the missing piece in Radical Embodied Cognition’s non-representationalist account of intentionality?, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, volume 21, no. 4, pages 813-834, DOI:10.1007/s11097-022-09824-8.
Southgate C. (2022) My Tsunami Journey: The Quest for God in a Broken World, Theology and Science, volume 20, no. 3, pages 371-372, DOI:10.1080/14746700.2022.2084859.
Southgate C. (2022) What Challenges Does the Theory of Biological Evolution Pose to Christian Theology?, The Craft of Innovative Theology, Wiley-Blackwell, 81-96.

2021

Southgate C. (2021) Review of Michael Welker, In God's Image, Expository Times, volume 133, pages 88-89, DOI:10.1177/00145246211051560.
Southgate C. (2021) A Tribute to John Polkinghorne, Reviews in Science and Religion, volume 75, pages 30-32.
Southgate C. (2021) Animal suffering and the Darwinian problem of evil, Theology and Science, volume 19, no. 1, pages 79-80, DOI:10.1080/14746700.2020.1869675.
Long S. (2021) Poetic Exercises: An Exploration of the Influence of The Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius on the Writing of Poetry.
Southgate C. (2021) Review of Andrew Steane, Science and Humanity: A Humane Philosophy of Science and Religion, Modern Believing, volume 62, pages 175-176.
Southgate C. (2021) Enough of Galileo and the Huxley-Wilberforce Debate: Science and Theology in the Climate Emergency, Modern Believing, volume 62, pages 112-123.
Southgate C. (2021) Singing and dancing in the cruellest month: A reflection on theology and poetry in a time of COVID, Theology in Scotland, volume 28, pages 37-47, DOI:10.15664/tis.v28i1.2184.
Southgate C. (2021) Review of the T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Theology and Climate Change, Reviews in Science and Religion, volume 74, pages 34-37. [PDF]
Goundrey-Smith S. (2021) Transhumanism and Theological Ethics: An Investigation of Insights to be Gained from Past Developments in Chemical Therapeutics.
Southgate C. (2021) Reflections on God and COVID-19, Perspectives on science and Christian faith : journal of the American Scientific Affiliation, volume 73, pages 23-32.

2020

Lesser EG, Southgate C. (2020) On Animals - an extended review of David Clough's two-volume work, Studies in Christian Ethics, volume 34, pages 88-98, DOI:10.1177/0953946820965008.
Southgate C. (2020) Did the Natural World Go Wrong?, God in the Natural World, ATF Press, 61-75.
Southgate C. (2020) Glory in a Twentieth-Century Mystic: reflections on the Experience of Etty Hillesum (1914-43), Exploring the Glory of God: New Horizons for a Theology of Glory, Lexington Books, 81-95.
Southgate C. (2020) Beyond the disguised friend: immanence, transcendence and glory in a Darwinian world, Issues in Science and Theology: Nature – and Beyond. Transcendence and Immanence in Science and Theology, Springer, 57-68, DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-31182-7_5.
Parkyn J. (2020) The Divine Pedagogy: Theological Explorations of Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life.

2019

Lesser EG. (2019) Messer’s Typology: An Investigation into the Relationship Between Science and Christian Theology.
Warner M, Southgate C, Grosch-Miller CA, Ison H. (2019) Introduction, Tragedies and Christian Congregations: The Practical Theology of Trauma, 1-9, DOI:10.4324/9781351050791-1.
Southgate C, Grosch-Miller C, Ison H, Warner M. (2019) Tragedies and Christian Congregations The Practical Theology of Trauma, Routledge.
Southgate C. (2019) Review of 'Religion in the Anthropocene', Science and Christian Belief, volume 31, pages 82-84.
Southgate CCB. (2019) Trauma and the narrative life of congregations, Tragedies and Christian Congregations: The practical theology of trauma.
Southgate CCB. (2019) ‘In spite of all this, we will yearn for You’: Reflections on God’s involvement in events causing great suffering, Tragedies and Christian Congregations: The practical theology of trauma, Routledge.
Southgate C. (2019) A Response to Sollereder and Allen, Theology and Science, volume 17, no. 2, pages 180-184, DOI:10.1080/14746700.2019.1596248. [PDF]
Southgate CCB. (2019) Review of William Greenway, The Challenge of Evil, Anglican Theological Review, volume 101, pages 181-183.
Shin H. (2019) Eschatological Visions of the New Testament: From a Premillennial Dispensationalist Interpretation towards a Contextual Korean Christian Environmental Ethic.

2018

Southgate C. (2018) Forrest Clingerman, Brian Treanor, Martin Drenthen, and David Utsler (eds.), Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics, Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture, volume 12, no. 2, pages 230-231, DOI:10.1558/jsrnc.31576.
Southgate C. (2018) Free-Process and Only-way Arguments, Finding Ourselves after Darwin Conversations on the Image of God, Original Sin, and the Problem of Evil, Baker Academic, 293-305.
Southgate CCB. (2018) review of 'Intepreting Nature' ed. F. Clingerman et al, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, volume 12, pages 230-231.
Southgate C. (2018) RESPONSE WITH A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY, Zygon, volume 53, no. 3, pages 909-930, DOI:10.1111/zygo.12460.
Southgate CCB. (2018) Science and Evil, The History of Evil, Volume V, Routledge, 81-96.
Southgate CCB. (2018) Theology in a suffering world: glory and longing, Cambridge University Press, DOI:10.1017/9781316599945.
Southgate CCB. (2018) Review of Before Nature by Paul Santmire, Worldviews, volume 22, pages 193-195, DOI:10.1163/15685357-02103010.

2017

Southgate CCB. (2017) Nature’s million-fuelèd bonfire: Thoughts on honest poetic contemplation, Theology in Scotland, volume Spring 2017, pages 7-20.
Southgate CCB. (2017) “Environmental/Ethics” and “Science/Religion”: : Converging Streams in Barbour’s Work, Theology and Science, volume 15:1, pages 63-72.

2016

Southgate C. (2016) Fully Alive: The Glory of God and the Human Creature in Karl Barth, Hans Urs von Balthasar and Theological Exegesis of Scripture by Jason A. Fout (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015), viii + 213 pp, Modern Theology, volume 32, no. 3, pages 464-466, DOI:10.1111/moth.12275.
Southgate CCB. (2016) Review of K Treston, Emergence for Life Not Fall from Grace: Making Sense of the Jesus Story in the Light of Evolution, and I Delio, The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution, and the Power of Love, Modern Believing, volume 57 (4), pages 426-429, DOI:10.3828/mb.2016.29.
Southgate CCB. (2016) The Orientation of Longing, Issues in Science and Theology: Do Emotions Shape the World?, Springer, 73-86.

2015

Southgate CCB. (2015) Religion and Ecology in the Public Sphere edited by Celia Deane-Drummond and Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, Ecclesiology, volume 11, no. 3, pages 395-397.
Southgate CCB. (2015) Review of Elizabeth A Johnson: Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love, Science and Christian Belief, volume 27, no. 1, pages 114-116.
Southgate CCB. (2015) God’s Creation Wild and Violent, and Our Care for Other Animals, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, volume 67, pages 245-253.

2014

Southgate CCB. (2014) Review of Malcolm Guite, Sounding the Seasons, Temenos Academy Review, volume 17, pages 233-234.
Southgate CCB. (2014) Foreword to 'Confronting the Predicament of Belief', Confronting the Predicament of Belief, CrowdScribed, xi-xiv.
Southgate CCB. (2014) Does God's Care Make Any Difference? Theological Reflection on the Suffering of God's Creaturesa, Christian Faith and the Earth: Current Paths and Emerging Horizons in Ecotheology, T&T Clark, 97-114.
Southgate CCB. (2014) Divine Glory in a Darwinian World, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, volume 49, no. 4, pages 784-807.
Lehman N, Bernhard T, Larson BC, Robinson AJN, Southgate CCB. (2014) Empirical demonstration of environmental sensing in catalytic RNA: evolution of interpretive behavior at the origins of life, BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, volume 14, article no. ARTN 248, DOI:10.1186/s12862-014-0248-2. [PDF]

2013

Southgate C. (2013) Return To Ground Zero, 2012, Spiritus A Journal of Christian Spirituality, volume 13, no. 2, pages 271-271, DOI:10.1353/scs.2013.0029.
Southgate CCB. (2013) Pain/Suffering, Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions, pages 1585-1587.

2012

SOUTHGATE C. (2012) Philip Clayton and Steven Knapp The Predicament of Belief: Science, Philosophy, Faith (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). Pp. x + 184. £16.99 (Hbk). ISBN 978 0 19 969527 0, Religious Studies, volume 49, no. 1, pages 125-130, DOI:10.1017/s0034412512000388.
Southgate C. (2012) F. LeRon Shults, Christology and Science (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2008), pp. 181. $30.00, Scottish Journal of Theology, volume 65, no. 4, pages 500-502, DOI:10.1017/s0036930611000895.
Southgate CCB. (2012) Looking East at Sunset: Inspiration in Art, Science and Religion, Inspriation in Science and Religion, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 43-52.
Southgate CCB, Eaton H. (2012) Science and Theology Discourse, Creation and Salvation Vol. 2 A Companion on Recent Theological Movements, LIT Verlag, 173-214.

2011

Southgate C. (2011) RE‐READING GENESIS, JOHN, AND JOB: A CHRISTIAN RESPONSE TO DARWINISM, Zygon®, volume 46, no. 2, pages 370-395, DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9744.2011.01186.x.
Southgate C. (2011) Book Review: Whitney Bauman, Theology, Creation, and Environmental Ethics: From Creatio Ex Nihilo to Terra Nullius (London: Routledge, 2009). xii + 248 pp. £70/$118 (hb), ISBN 978-0-415-99813-0, Studies in Christian Ethics, volume 24, no. 2, pages 242-244, DOI:10.1177/0953946810397447.
Southgate CCB. (2011) The Work of Love: Introductory Essay, A Companion to the ISSR Library of Science and Religion147, International Society for Science and Religion, 147-148.
Southgate CCB. (2011) Religion, Science and Naturalism: Introductory Essay, A Companion to the ISSR Library of Science and Religion, International Society for Science and Religion, 53-54.
Southgate CCB. (2011) Review of Christopher Knight, The God of Nature, Science and Christian Belief, volume 23, no. 2, pages 182-183.
Southgate CCB. (2011) Editorial, Reviews in Science and Religion, no. 57, pages 4-8.
Southgate CCB. (2011) Theodicy and Eschatology in Csomology - from Alpha to Omega, Theology and Science, volume 9, no. 2, pages 253-255.
Southgate CCB. (2011) Parasites and Pangloss: Robin Attfield on evolutionary theodicy and environmental ethics, Creation, Environment and Ethics, Cambridge Scholars Press, 61-74.

2010

Southgate CCB. (2010) Editorial, Reviews in Science and Religion, volume 56, pages 4-5.
Robinson AJN, Southgate C. (2010) Broken Symbols? Response to F. LeRon Shults, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, no. 3, pages 733-738.
Robinson AJN, Southgate CCB. (2010) Semiotics as a Metaphysical Framework for Christian Theology, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, no. 3, pages 689-712.
Robinson AJN, Southgate CCB. (2010) God and the World of Signs: Introduction to Part 2, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, no. 3, pages 685-688.
Robinson AJN, Southgate CCB, Deacon T. (2010) Discussion of the Conceptual Basis of Biosemiotics, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, no. 2, pages 409-418.
Southgate CCB, Robinson AJN. (2010) Interpretation and the Origin of Life, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, no. 2, pages 345-360.
Robinson AJN, Southgate CCB. (2010) Introduction: Towards a Metaphysic of Meaning, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, no. 2, pages 339-344.
Southgate C. (2010) Review of Ritualizing Nature by H. Paul Santmire, Worldviews, volume 14, pages 290-293.
Southgate C. (2010) Editorial, Reviews in Science and Religion, volume 54, pages 3-4. [PDF]
Robinson AJ, Southgate CCB. (2010) Incarnation and Semiotics: A Theological and Anthropological Hypothesis - Part 2: Semiotics, Anthropology and Religious Transformation, Theology and Science, no. 3, pages 283-302. [PDF]
Robinson AJ, Southgate CCB. (2010) Incarnation and Semiotics: A Theological and Anthropological Hypothesis - Part 1: Incarnation and Peirce's Taxonomy of Signs, Theology and Science, no. 3, pages 265-282. [PDF]
Robinson AJ, Southgate CCB. (2010) A General Interpretation of Interpretation and its Application to Origin of Life Research, Biology and Philosophy, volume 25, no. 2, pages 163-181.
Horrell et al DG. (2010) Ecological Hermeneutics, Continuum.
Horrell DG, Hunt C, Southgate CCB. (2010) Greening Paul: Rereading the Apostle in an Age of Ecological Crisis, Baylor University Press.

2009

Southgate C. (2009) Book Review: WHY DO WE SIN? Terry D. Cooper, Dimensions of Evil: Contemporary Perspectives (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2007. $22.00. pp. 285. ISBN 978—0—8006—6217—2), The Expository Times, volume 120, no. 6, pages 305-306, DOI:10.1177/00145246091200061110.
Southgate CCB. (2009) Review of Ecologies of Grace by Willis Jenkins, Reviews in Science and Religion, volume 53, pages 42-44. [PDF]
Southgate CCB. (2009) Editorial, Reviews in Science and Religion, volume 53, pages 3-3. [PDF]
Southgate CCB. (2009) The new days of Noah? assisted migration as an ethical imperative in an era of climate change, Creaturely Theology: On God, Humans and Other Animals, SCM Press, 249-265.
Southgate CCB. (2009) Review of Dimensions of Evil by Terry Cooper, Expository Times, volume 120, no. 6, pages 305-306.

2008

Southgate C. (2008) Book Review: Neil Messer, Selfish Genes and Christian Ethics: Theological and Ethical Reflections on Evolutionary Biology (London: SCM Press, 2007). viii + 280 pp. £19.99 (pb), ISBN 978—0—334—02996—0, Studies in Christian Ethics, volume 21, no. 1, pages 142-145, DOI:10.1177/09539468080210010904.
Southgate CCB, Hunt C, Horrell DG. (2008) Ascesis and Assisted Migration: Responses to the effect of Climate Change on Animal Species, European Journal of Science and Theology, volume 4, no. 2, pages 99-111.
Southgate CCB. (2008) Creation as 'very good' and 'groaning in travail': an exploration in evolutionary theodicy, The Evolution of Evil, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 53-85.
Horrell DG, Hunt C, Southgate CCB. (2008) Appeals to the Bible in Ecotheology and Environmental Ethics: A Typology of Hermeneutical Stances, Studies in Christian Ethics, volume 21, no. 2, pages 219-238.
Southgate CCB. (2008) Review of Selfish Genes and Christian Ethics by Neil Messer, Studies in Christian Ethics, volume 21, no. 1, pages 142-145.
Hunt C, Horrell DG, Southgate C. (2008) An environmental mantra? Ecological interest in Romans 8.19-23 and a modest proposal for its narrative interpretation, Journal of Theological Studies, volume 59, pages 546-579.
Southgate CCB. (2008) Short Reviews by the Editor, Reviews in Science and Religion, volume 51, pages 36-41.
Southgate CCB. (2008) Review of Creation, Evolution and Meaning by Robin Attfield, Reviews in Science and Religion, volume 51, pages 33-35.
Horrell DG, Hunt C, Southgate C. (2008) Appeals to the Bible in Ecotheology and Environmental Ethics: A Typology of Hermeneutical Stances, Studies in Christian Ethics, volume 21, pages 219-238.
Southgate CCB. (2008) Review of Teaching about Origins ed. Leslie Jones and Michael Reiss, Reviews in Science and Religion, volume 52, pages 47-50.
Southgate CCB. (2008) The Groaning of Creation: God, evolution and the problem of evil.
Hunt C, Horrell DG, Southgate CCB. (2008) An Environmental Mantra? Ecological Interest in Rom. 8.19-23 and a Modest Proposal for its Narrative Interpretation, Journal of Theological Studies, volume 59, pages 546-579.
Southgate CCB. (2008) Can God act in the world science describes?, Dialogue, volume 31, pages 32-36.
Southgate CCB. (2008) Editorial, Report on 2008 Conference, Obituary of Sir John Templeton, Reviews in Science and Religion, volume 52, pages 3-12.
Southgate CCB. (2008) Editorial, Reviews in Science and Religion, volume 51, pages 3-5.
Southgate CCB. (2008) Protological and Eschatological Vegetarianism, Eating and Believing: Interdisciplinary Approaches on Vegetarianism and Theology, T&T Clark/Continuum, 247-265.
Southgate CCB. (2008) Kenosis - divine and human - as a resource in ecological theology, Creation's Diversity: Voices from Theology and Science, T&T Clark/Continuum, 58-77.
Southgate C, Hunt C, Horrell DG. (2008) Ascesis and Assisted Migration: Responses to the Effects of Climate Change on Animal Species, European Journal of Science and Theology, volume 4, pages 99-111.

2007

Southgate C. (2007) KNOWING, Zygon®, volume 42, no. 2, pages 561-562, DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9744.2007.00561.x.
Southgate C. (2007) CRICK, WATSON, AND THE DOUBLE HELIX, Zygon®, volume 42, no. 1, pages 257-258, DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9744.2006.00820.x.
Southgate C. (2007) Original Selfishness: Original Sin and Evil in the Light of Evolution – By Daryl P. Domning and Monika K. Hellwig, Conversations in Religion and Theology, volume 5, no. 2, pages 173-185, DOI:10.1111/j.1479-2214.2007.00117.x.
Southgate C. (2007) Reweaving the Rainbow, Zygon®, volume 42, no. 3, pages 649-649, DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9744.2007.00857.x.
Southgate C. (2007) Taboo, Zygon®, volume 42, no. 4, pages 1015-1017, DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9744.2007.00887.x.
Southgate CCB. (2007) Editorial, Reviews in Science and Religion, volume 49, pages 2-3.
Southgate CCB. (2007) Editorial, Reviews in Science and Religion, volume 50.
Southgate CCB. (2007) Review of Original Selfishness by Daryn Domning and Monika Hellwig, Conversations in Religion and Theology, volume 5, no. 2, pages 173-185.
Southgate CCB. (2007) Review of All That Is by Arthur Peacocke, Reviews in Science and Religion, volume 50, pages 25-30.
Southgate CCB. (2007) Review of Cosmology, Evolution and Resurrection Hope by R.J. Russell, Reviews in Science and Religion, volume 49, pages 48-51.
Southgate C, Robinson, A.. (2007) Varieties of Theodicy: An Exploration of Responses to the Problem of Evil based on a Typology of Good-Harm Analyses, Physics and Cosmology: Scientific Perspectives on the Problem of Evil in Nature, Vatican Observatory; Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences.
Southgate CCB. (2007) Review of Is God a Delusion? by Graham Hellier, Reviews in Science and Religion, volume 49, pages 51-52.

2006

Southgate CCB. (2006) From the bison at Niaux to the Kyoto Protocol: a journey in human nature, The Evolution of Rationality: Festschrift in honour of J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, Eerdmans, 183-196.
Southgate, C.C.B.. (2006) Stewardship and its Competitors: a spectrum of relationships between human and non-human creation, Environmental Stewardship: critical perspectives past and present, T & T Clark International, 185-195.

2005

Southgate, C.C.B.. (2005) God, Humanity and the Cosmos: revised and expanded as a companion to the science-religion debate, T & T Clark International.

2004

Southgate CCB. (2004) Religion and Science.
Southgate, C.C.B.. (2004) Environmental Ethics and the Science-Religion Debate: A British Perspective on Barbour, 40 Years in Science and Religion: Ian Barbour and his Legacy, Ashgate, 239-248.

2003

Southgate C. (2003) Review of 'Creation through Wisdom: Theology and the New Biology' by C. Deane-Drummond, Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture, DOI:10.1558/ecotheology.v8i1.1648.
Southgate C. (2003) Review of 'Science and Poetry' by Mary Midgley, Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture, DOI:10.1558/ecotheology.v8i1.1649.
Southgate CCB. (2003) Holism, Encyclopedia of Science and Religion, pages 412-415.
Southgate CCB. (2003) Research in Science and Religion, Encyclopedia of Science and Religion, pages 768-776.

2002

Southgate C. (2002) The Use of the Rainforest as a Test Case in Environmental Ethics, Bioethics for Scientists, Wiley, 57-72, DOI:10.1002/0470846593.ch4.
Southgate C. (2002) Introduction to Environmental Ethics, Bioethics for Scientists, Wiley, 37-55, DOI:10.1002/0470846593.ch3.
Southgate C, Aylward A. (2002) Environmental Ethics: Further Case‐Studies, Bioethics for Scientists, Wiley, 73-83, DOI:10.1002/0470846593.ch5.
Southgate, C.C.B.. (2002) God and evolutionary evil: theodicy in the light of Darwinism, Zygon, volume 37, no. 4, pages 803-824, DOI:10.1111/1467-9744.00459.

1999

Southgate CCB. (1999) reconsidering phlebas: faith in the life and work of TS Eliot, English literature, theology and the curriculum, Cassell, 221-228.

1997

Southgate CCB. (1997) a love and its sounding' explorations of T.S. Eliot, Salzburg University Press.

1982

NOTARIANNI LJ, OLDHAM HG, BENNETT PN, SOUTHGATE CCB, PARFITT RT. (1982) EPOXIDES FROM PARACETAMOL - A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION FOR PARACETAMOL TOXICITY, ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY, volume 136, pages 1077-1083. [PDF]

1981

WOLFENDEN R, ANDERSSON L, CULLIS PM, SOUTHGATE CCB. (1981) AFFINITIES OF AMINO-ACID SIDE-CHAINS FOR SOLVENT WATER, BIOCHEMISTRY, volume 20, no. 4, pages 849-855, DOI:10.1021/bi00507a030. [PDF]

1979

WOLFENDEN R, ANDERSSON L, CULLIS P, SOUTHGATE CCB. (1979) TRANSITION-STATE ANALOG BINDING AND ENZYME CATALYSIS IN A WATERY ENVIRONMENT, ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, no. SEP, pages 88-88. [PDF]
SOUTHGATE CCB. (1979) CORRECTION, BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL, volume 177, no. 3, pages U769-U769. [PDF]

1978

SOUTHGATE CCB, DIXON HBF. (1978) PHOSPHONATE ANALOGS OF AMINOACYL ADENYLATES, BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL, volume 175, no. 2, pages 461-465, DOI:10.1042/bj1750461. [PDF]

External impact and engagement

Chris has run many events with churches and other related groups, exploring his research with lay audiences. This has included:
a seminar with Rowan Williams at Truro Cathedral at the time of the G7 meeting in Cornwall
a three-day Lee Abbey residential for scientists, clergy, teachers and other laypeople
a two-day retreat on the life and poetry of T.S.Eliot
a seminar for the science and religion society in Copenhagen
an evening with Taunton Humanists Society
a lecture in the series at St Michael's Mount Dinham
a lecture in Newcastle in connection with the British Science Festival
lectures in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch for New Zealand Christians in Science

He also explores the theological import of his own poetry and those of others, including:

a lecture on Eliot at St Stephen's Church, Exeter

a 'Dean's evening' at Virginia Theological Seminary

a reading in International Week at New York University

a readng in the pottery studio at St John's University, Minnesota

masterclasses at Columbia University on science and poetry, and the status of the sestina

three lectures for 'Theology Quest and Questions Tiverton'

the 2016 Gowland Lecture on science and poetry

the 2014 Sarum Lectures on glory.

Contribution to discipline

Grants awarded

"Cooperation and interpretation in the emergence of life" $630,192 from the John templeton Foundation
"How can congregations be helped in times of tragedy?", £182,054 from the Templeton World Charities Foundation
"Information and the Origins of Life', with Andrew Robinson. £196,562, Science and Transcendence Advanced Research Series, made possible by the Templeton Foundation, 2007-2011.
"Ministry Training as Formation", with Mike Higton. £93,000, St Luke’s College Foundation, 2007-2010.
"Texts of Land, Sea and Hope", with Mike Higton and David Horrell. £67,656, SWMTC, 2006-2009.

Workshops/symposia organised

Colloquium on evolutionary theodicy, Oxford, April 2022
Symposium on semiotics and theology, Berkeley, CA, Nov 2008 and Cambridge, UK, April 2011
Workshops for early career researchers, Berkeley, CA, 2010, Buckfast Abbey, 2019
AAR panel, 2009

Editorial positions

Editor of Reviews in Science and Religion (2007-2012)
Editor-designate of the Journal of the T.S. Society

Academic society positions

Committee member for the Science and Religion Forum (scirelforum.org)
Advisory Board - Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science
Advisory Group - AAR section on Science, Technology and Religion (to 2020)
Committee member of the T.S. Eliot Society

Interdisciplinary engagement

Chris has given presentations to groups concerned with the dialogue between religion and science, the interface between science and environmental ethics, and the interaction of poetry and science.

Media

Interview on Rema Radio, New Zealand
Series of nine TV interviews for Closer to Truth, American PBS
Interview for Radio Newcastle in connection with the British Science Festival
Performed and was interviewed for radio at the 2016 Greenbelt Festival
Podcast in the 'Homebrewed Christianity' series.

Teaching

My teaching style emphasises high levels of student interaction. Student-led seminars (including debates, etc) are a particular feature, with the aim to teach students not just how to think but how to talk and to listen as academic theologians.

I won Templeton Foundation Science and Religion Teaching Awards in 1996 and 2000 and am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I gave a presentation (with a former student) of good pedagogy in science and religion at the American Academy of Religion in 2016, and contribute regularly to the University's teaching and learning training.

Two of my former students reflect on my teaching in articles in the journal 'Zygon', for September 2018.

My Level 1 module 'Big Questions in Science and Religion' (alternate years from 2021) uses group-working to explore areas of cutting-edge interest, including coronavirus and climate change. 'Evolution, God and Gaia' (Levels 2-3) runs in alternate years from 2022.

Modules taught

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