The Faculty of Theology and Religion is currently hosting a 3-year project on God-Concepts and Spiritual Wellbeing, generously supported by the John Templeton Foundation. The project has funded a three-year doctoral studentship, held by Edward Chan Stroud, and a one-year postdoc position, held by Dr Khai Wager. The goal of the project has been to use a mix of philosophical, theological and empirical methods to consider the interaction between conceptions of the divine and accounts of spiritual wellbeing and development in the spiritual life. The project's activities have included a workshop on God concepts and spiritual wellbeing, held at Oriel College in March 2023. The presentations were:
Tasia Scrutton (Leeds)
Relational agency and spiritual well-being: An argument for Denisian passibilism
Ryan Byerly (Sheffield)
Three ways agnostics can grow in virtue via non-doxastic theistic faith practice
Beverley Clack (Oxford Brookes)
God, transience and the well-lived life
Simon Hewitt (Leeds)
Liberating God: apophatic classical theism and political spirituality
Khai Wager (Oxford)
Falling in love outward: Robinson Jeffers' pantheism and the spiritual life
Mark Wynn (Oxford)
The eternal now and living well in the historical present
