Dr Philip McCosker
Academic Background
Dr McCosker read Theology at Oxford; he was awarded a First and won the Pusey and Ellerton Junior Hebrew Prize, the Canon Hall New Testament Junior Prize, and the Ellerton Theological Essay Prize. After working as a lay-chaplain at the University of Rouen in France he gained a MTS in Systematic Theology from Harvard Divinity School. He went on to complete his PhD studies at the Faculty of Divinity in Cambridge, completing much of the research while a Visiting Assistant in Research at the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University.
Undergraduate Teaching
Creation (Prelims); Development of Doctrine in the Early Church to 451 AD (Paper 4); God, Christ, and Salvation (Paper 5); History and Theology of Western Christianity 1050-1350 – Theology Section (Paper 7); Nature of Religion (Paper 13); Christian Spirituality (Paper 34).
Postgraduate Teaching
Creation; Christology; Aquinas; Christian Mystical Theologies; Logics of Transcendence; Twentieth Century nouvelle théologie.
Research Interests
Varieties of apophaticism; Christology; the doctrine of God; intersections of theory and practice in Christian spiritualities.
Other Information
Dr McCosker is the Editor of Reviews in Religion and Theology (Wiley-Blackwell).
Links
Subject notes for courses taught at Jesus College:
Philosophy and Theology
See also Dr McCosker's page on the Faculty of Theology website.
