Dr Mark Wynn
Research Interests
Contemporary issues in philosophical theology and philosophy of religion
The philosophical study of religious practices, and the material context of those practices, including the philosophy and theology of place, and the philosophy and theology of the emotions
The aesthetic dimension of religious understanding
The philosophy and theology of the spiritual life
Ethics, especially the interface of theological and philosophical ethics
Research Supervision
I am first supervisor for the following MPhil/Phd research projects:
1. A MacIntyrean approach to the use of the Bible in Christian ethics (with David Horrell) (Puran Agrawal)
2. Phenomenological and communitarian accounts of religous belief (Gorazd Andrejc)
3. Jewish perspectives on the work of Rene Girard (with Kelton Cobb of Hartford Seminary; I am the lead Exeter supervisor) (Vanessa Avery)
4. Religion and emotion: a study of the work of William James (Hans de Bie)
5. John Paul II's theological anthropology (Colin Harte)
6. The theological and devotional context of the debate on divine passibility (Tom Mount)
7. Exploring the impact of depression on the experience of Christian faith (with Avril Mewse) (Helen Roberts)
8. The viability of naturalistic accounts of 'spirituality' (with Stephen Lea) (Richard Skinner)
Research Students
I have recently served as first supervisor for the following PhD projects:
1. Islam, euthanasia and western Christianity: drawing on Christian thinking to develop an expanded Sunni Muslim perspective on euthanasia (co-supervised with Ian Netton and Michael Hauskeller) (Rishad Motlani, completed 2012)
2. Concepts of God - a qualitative study of the language used by Anglicans (co-supervised with Stephen Lea) (Maria Coxhead, completed 2007)
3. Method in Christian ethics, with special reference to sexual ethics (Tim Gibson, completed 2006)
4. Story-telling and theological method, with special reference to the Exodus story (Brutus Green, completed 2006)
5. Concepts of liberation in recent feminist theology (supervised by me from January 2001) (Christina Nicholson, completed 2003)
