Current Postgraduate Research Students
Theology and Religious Studies boasts the largest research student community in the University; topics range from the spirituality of anorexia to the ethics of organ donation
The neo-patristic synthesis of Father Dumitru Staniloae
Supervisor: Dr Andreas Andreopoulos
The legends of Glastonbury: eternal truths and historical facts
Supervisor: Dr Anna King
Towards a feminist, liberative, Christological approach to therapeutic community
Supervisor: Prof. Lisa Isherwood
Elaine Bellchambers
Liberation theology for children and the impact for education
Supervisor: Prof. Lisa Isherwood
Sabine Bohnacker-Bruce
Church of England ministers’ beliefs about other faiths
Supervisor: Dr Anna King
‘Timor Mortis Conturbat Me’: complicating Walter’s Death Typology using poetry as a medium of personal expressionism
Supervisor: Dr Tina Welch
The Holy Trinity - source of Church unity in the creative theological vision of Father Dumitru Staniloae
Supervisor: Dr Andreas Andreopoulos
Soul and Salvation in Karl Barth and the Late Modern Self as delineated by Darwinian biology
Supervisor: Prof. Neil Messer
Does the Church of England present a coherent theology of the Devil and the demonic through its liturgical formulae?
Supervisor: Prof. Neil Messer
Dancing in the cosmos: towards liberating theological models for children’s spirituality and sexuality
Supervisor: Prof. Lisa Isherwood
Exploring New Age-based angel meditation, therapy and healing: its historical development and its effect on the lives of British women
Supervisor: Dr Tina Welch
A contemporary perspective of the icon of 'The Holy face of Manoppello'
Supervisor: Dr Andreas Andreopoulos
The reception of icons in the Anglican world
Supervisor: Dr Andreas Andreopoulos
Mural painting in Ethiopian churches from 1650
Supervisor: Dr Andreas Andreopoulos
The meaning of life, the search for a saviour, and the quest for eternal life: theological reflections on life, death, immortality and the human condition portrayed in the feature films of Monty Python
Supervisor: Prof. Liz Stuart
Jewish holy women and martyrs
Supervisor: Prof. Lisa Isherwood
Marriage in the Orthodox Christian tradition
Supervisor: Dr Andreas Andreopoulos
Ontology and morality in the thought of Maximus the Confessor and Emmanuel Kant
Supervisor: Dr Andreas Andreopoulos
The post-revolutionary Iranian women's identity as expressed through dress codes
Supervisor: Dr Anna King
Human uniqueness: twentieth-century perspectives from theology, science and archaeology
Supervisor: Prof. Liz Stuart
The light in the icon
Supervisor: Dr Andreas Andreopoulos
Changing patterns of belief in God in the United Kingdom since World War II
Supervisor: Prof. Liz Stuart
Kathleen Lyons
Mysticism or Narcissism?
Supervisor: Prof. Lisa Isherwood
The rise and fall of the Old Catholic Church in Britain
Supervisor: Prof. Liz Stuart
Irish liberation theology
Supervisor: Prof. Lisa Isherwood
Ancient voices in modern theology: Orthodox teaching and practice in animal welfare
Supervisor: Dr Andreas Andreopoulos
Chris Newell
‘Our wounds are not for healing': a theology of incarnation from within ‘disabled’ minds.
Supervisor: Prof. Lisa Isherwood
A critical examination of how the task of Evangelisation is understood and practiced in rural Britain
Supervisor: Prof. Neil Messer
Disability and chronic illness in Greek Orthodox society
Supervisor: Dr Andreas Andreopoulos
Bioethics, public policy and the Church of England
Supervisor: Prof. Neil Messer
Eastern Orthodoxy and nationalism
Supervisor: Dr Andreas Andreopoulos
The place of St Peter in ecclesiastical hierarchy: an ecclesiological model inspired by Dionysios the Areopagite
Supervisor: Dr Andreas Andreopoulos
Remembering Al-Andalus: A Sūfī approach to Self and Other and its contribution to conflict transformation in Israel-Palestine
Supervisor: Dr Anna King
The ethics of solid organ donation and transplantation – an alternative view based on Christian and Hindu traditions.
Supervisor: Dr Anna King
The Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius
Supervisor: Dr Andreas Andreopoulos
The current practice of Ayurveda in the UK, with a specific focus on the role of spirituality; patient and practitioner perspectives
Supervisor: Dr Anna King
Perceptions of being, language of unity
Supervisor: Dr Anna King
Ground of being: an outline of the systematic theology of Paul Tillich and an assessment of its adequacy in relation to animals and creation
Supervisor: Prof. Neil Messer
Ayurveda, meditation and healing in the West since Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 1959 to the present day: Ayurveda, meditation and lifestyle, ancient wisdom for a modern new world
Supervisor: Dr Anna King
Identity, spirituality and salvation: contemporary Cornwall and a theology of liberation
Supervisor: Prof. Lisa Isherwood
Towards a Christological model of organisational leadership
Supervisor: Dr Paul Hedges
The spirituality of anorexia: towards healing and liberation of the Goddess in every woman
Supervisor: Prof. Lisa Isherwood
Beyond body boundaries: discovering the Divine in the depths of the flesh
Supervisor: Prof. Lisa Isherwood
The insistence of the Divine, pluralistic spiritualities amid religious persecutions
Supervisor: Prof. Lisa Isherwood