Andrew Davison
My first spell at Oxford was as an undergraduate reading Chemistry, followed by a DPhil in Biochemistry. I subsequently read theology at Cambridge. After a curacy in Southeast London, I started my theological teaching and research career in Oxford, as tutor in Christian doctrine at St Stephen’s House, followed by a similar role at Westcott House in Cambridge. During that time, I studied a Cambridge PhD on understandings of finitude in Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus. I moved from Westcott House to become the Starbridge Lecturer (later Professor) in Theology and Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge (2014–24). From 2022–24, I was a visiting fellow at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey. I became Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford in September 2024, a post that is based at Christ Church, where I am also a residentiary canon of the cathedral.
Christian doctrine; Thomas Aquinas; the scholastic tradition; participation and mediation as metaphysical themes in Christian theology; the relation of doctrines; theological responses to aspects of natural science and technology, especially contemporary biology and artificial intelligence / machine learning.
Research Centres & Projects:
- Founding member of the Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe, University of Cambridge
Fellow in UK FIRES programme (Climate change research network), University of Cambridge
Editorships:
- Cambridge Elements in Christianity and Science
- Cambridge Elements in the Origins of Life
- Theology, Philosophy, and the Sciences