PhD in Theology and Religion

Recent PhD titles

Here are some examples of recently completed PhD theses undertaken by students in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Exeter.

  • Matthew: a literary ethnography: an anthropological reading of Matthew’s constructed world
  • Paul and divine intervention: an investigation into miracles and visions in Paul’s apostolic
    ministry in their first century setting, from his letters and the Acts of the Apostles
  • A semiotic model of the Trinity: god, evolution and the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce
  • A critique of postmodern theology in the work of John Milbank to 1990
  • Stories from the street: towards a theology of homelessness
  • Seek the peace of the city: the radical theological politics of John Howard Yoder
  • A preferential option for children: the creation of a theology of childhood
  • Human agape: lost or refound? An evaluation of the attempts in feminist theologies to re-articulate the concept of neighbour-love
  • Here she stands: the Goddess and her importance for women and the cosmos
  • An investigation into women in neopaganism and fundamentalist/evangelical Christianity, with reference to Grace Jantzen’s Becoming Divine and Pamela Anderson’s A Feminist Philosophy of Religion
  • Language matters and the gendered God: the issue of revising liturgical language with special reference to the worship of the Church of England
  • The painted veil: idealism, science and the Anglican cosmos 1870-1900
  • Catherine Booth: preacher and theologian? A study of the exhortations and the message of Catherine Booth