DITA Director

Jeremy BegbieJeremy Begbie is the inaugural holder of the Thomas A. Langford Research Professorship in Theology.

He teaches systematic theology, and he specializes in the interface between theology and the arts. His particular research interest is the interplay between music and theology.

Professor Begbie spends one semester each year (currently spring) at Duke Divinity School and the other semester at Cambridge.

He is also Senior Member at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge. Previously he has been Associate Principal at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, and Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews where he directed the research project, Theology Through the Arts at the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts.

He is author of a number of books, including Voicing Creation’s Praise: Towards a Theology of the Arts (T & T Clark); Theology, Music and Time (CUP), and most recently, Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music (Baker/SPCK) which won the Christianity Today 2008 Book Award in the Theology/Ethics Category. He has taught widely in the UK, North America and South Africa, specializing in multimedia performance-lectures.

Recent Publications and Interviews

Selected Forthcoming Publications

  • “Natural Theology and Music” in The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology, ed. Russell Re Manning (Oxford University Press, 2013)
  • “Openness and Specificity: A Conversation with David Brown on Theology and Classical Music” in Theology, Aesthetics, and Culture: Conversations with the Work of David Brown (OUP, 2012)
  • Foreword to Restoring the Shamed: Towards a Theology of Shame by Robin Stockitt (Wipf and Stock, 2012)
  • Foreword to Music as Theology by Maeve Heaney (Wipf and Stock, 2012)
  • "The Future of Theology Amid the Arts: Some Reformed Reflections" (forthcoming collection of Wheaton Distinguished Lectures edited by Roger Lundin) (pre-publication version)

Forthcoming Speaking Engagements

2012

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2014