Mark Wynn

Mark Wynn is a professor of philosophical theology at the University of Oxford. He is the seventh Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion.^[1][2] He was formerly the president of the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion.

Education and career[]

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, 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]

Books[]

• 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[]

External links[]

• Professor Mark Wynn at the University of Oxford Faculty of Theology and Religion
• Professor Mark Wynn at Oriel College