George Pattison
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| Church | Church of England |
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| Thesis | Kierkegaard's Theory and Critique of Art (1983) |
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| Discipline | Theology |
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George Linsley Pattison (born 1950) is a retired English
Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. From 2017–2019 he was a Senior Co-Fund Fellow at the Max Weber Center at the University of Erfurt. He has also been an Affiliate Professor in Systematic Theology at the University of Copenhagen (2011–) and an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Theology at the University of St Andrews
(2021–).
Early life and education
He holds a
University of Durham
.
Academic career
Pattison was Dean of the Chapel of
University of Århus
(2002–03).
In 2004, Pattison succeeded
Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. He was also a Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
from 2004 to 2013.
Pattison became
St Benet's Hall at the University of Oxford in 2012. In 2017, Pattison gave the Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford; the series was titled "A Phenomenology of the Devout Life".[2] These have now been published as first of a three part 'Philosophy of Christian Life' under the same title.[3] Parts 2 and 3 are entitled "A Rhetorics of the Word"[4] and "A Metaphysics of Love".[5]
Pattison's works range from historical, theological and philosophical engagement with the critical reception of German Idealism in such figures as
Fyodor Dostoyevsky to theological studies of the aesthetics of film and the visual arts. His latest work has used existential phenomenology to explore themes of ontology, language, love and the meaning of God
.
Selected works
- Kierkegaard's Theory and Critique of Art: Its Theological Significance (PhD thesis). Durham, England: Durham University. 1983. OCLC 15248798.
- Art, Modernity and Faith (1991)
- Kierkegaard: the Aesthetic and the Religious (1992)
- Agnosis: Theology in the Void (1996)
- Kierkegaard and the Crisis of Faith (1997)
- The End of Theology and the Task of Thinking about God (1998)
- Anxious Angels (1999)
- The Later Heidegger (2000)
- A Short Course in the Philosophy of Religion (2001)
- Dostoevsky and the Christian Tradition (ed. with D.Thompson, 1991)
- A Short Course in Christian Doctrine (2005)
- The Philosophy of Kierkegaard (2005)
- Thinking about God in an Age of Technology (2006)
- Crucifixions and Resurrections of the Image: Reflections on Art and Modernity (SCM, 2009)
- God and Being (OUP, 2011)
- A Phenomenology of the Devout Life (OUP, 2018)
- A Rhetorics of the Word (OUP, 2019)
- A Metaphysics of Love (OUP, 2021)
- Conversations with Dostoevsky on God, Russia, Literature, and Life (OUP, 2024)
See also
References
- ^ [1] Archived 24 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Towards a Phenomenology of the Devout Life". University of Oxford. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
- ISBN 978-0-19-881350-7. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
- ISBN 978-0-19-881351-4. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
- ISBN 978-0-19-881352-1. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
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