Dr Esther D. Reed
Head of Theology and Religion, Associate Professor
BA (Hons), PhD (Dunelm)
Extension: 3249
Telephone: 01392 723249
Co-Ordinator for Postgraduate Students (Research) in the Department of Theology.
Director of the Network for Religion in Public Life http://www.centres.exeter.ac.uk/nrpl/
Esther D. Reed joined the Department of Theology in 2007. Previously, she taught for ten years at the University of St Andrews including one semester as the visiting O'Connor Professor at Colgate University, NY (Spring 2007).
Her current research projects include:
1. Theology and International Law
She is a Visiting Member of the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, USA, as part of the International Law Working Group. The group comprises international lawyers, public lawyers, legal philosophers and theologians, and its work is a study of the relation between natural law reasoning and international law, especially jus cogens norms. The work is motivated by concerns about torture and other recent human rights abuses.
2. Theology of Work - The Sarum Theological Lectures 2007
She delivered The Sarum Theological Lectures 2007 in Salisbury Cathedral. The lectures, entitled 'God at Work: Christian Ethics in the Workplace' centred around the question of how God is at work in the work of believers, and is currently writing up these lectures for publication.
3. The Ethics of Asylum and Refuge in Interfaith Perspective
She was part of a small Scriptural Reasoning Group at the University of Colgate in 2007. Her continuing work in this area draws upon the descriptive and analytic capacity of the Abrahamic faiths to clear space in the public arena for new questions and perspectives, and to bring new possibilities into play.
4. Creaturely Theology
She is part of the Creaturely Theology colloquium organized by the University of Chester and is writing on Animals in Orthodox Iconography.
