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Mark Wynn

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Mark R. Wynn
AwardsFellow of the British Academy (2022)
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisGod and the World: The Place of Explanation in Natural Theology (1991)
Doctoral advisorBrian Davies
Richard Swinburne
Academic work
DisciplinePhilosophy, theology
Institutions

Mark Wynn FBA is a British philosopher of religion, philosophical theologian and academic. He is the seventh Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion Oriel College, University of Oxford.[1][2] He was formerly the president of the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion.

Education and career

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Wynn earned a BA in Philosophy and Theology at the University of Oxford, Hertford College.[3] He earned a DPhil in 1991 at Oxford (Linacre College) under the supervision of Brian Davies and Richard Swinburne for his dissertation, God and the World: The Place of Explanation in Natural Theology.[4]

Following a position at King's College London, he became a research fellow at University of Glasgow. He then held positions at the Australian Catholic University and the University of Exeter. From 2013 to 2020, Wynn was a professor of philosophy and religion at the University of Leeds. He joined the Faculty of Theology and Religion and the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford in July 2020.[1]

In 2022, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[5]

Books

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  • God and Goodness: A Natural Theological Perspective (Routledge, 2002)
  • Emotional Experience and Religious Understanding: Integrating Perception, Conception and Feeling (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
  • Faith and Place: An Essay in Embodied Religious Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2009)
  • Renewing the Senses: A Study of the Philosophy and Theology of the Spiritual Life (Oxford University Press, 2013)
  • Spiritual Traditions and the Virtues: Living Between Heaven and Earth (Oxford University Press, 2020)

References

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  1. ^ a b "Nolloth Professorship of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion". University of Oxford. 10 June 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  2. ^ "New Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion Admitted to Governing Body". Oriel College, University of Oxford. 15 October 2020. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  3. ^ "Mark Wynn". Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  4. ^ Wynn, Mark (1991). God and the World: The Place of Explanation in Natural Theology (DPhil dissertation). University of Oxford. OCLC 863336966.
  5. ^ "Record number of women elected to the British Academy". The British Academy. 22 July 2022. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
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