Mark Wynn
{{Short description|British theologian}}
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Mark Wynn {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|FBA}} is a British philosopher of religion, philosophical theologian and academic. He is the seventh Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion Oriel College, University of Oxford.{{cite web |title=Nolloth Professorship of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion |url=https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/article/nolloth-professorship-of-the-philosophy-of-the-christian-religion#/ |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=6 August 2021 |language=en |date=10 June 2019}}{{cite web |title=New Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion Admitted to Governing Body |url=https://www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/about-college/news-events/news/new-nolloth-professor-philosophy-christian-religion-admitted |publisher=Oriel College, University of Oxford |access-date=6 August 2021 |date=15 October 2020}} 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.{{cite web |title=Mark Wynn |url=https://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/people/mark-wynn#tab-3030511 |publisher=Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford |access-date=6 August 2021}} 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.{{cite thesis |last1=Wynn |first1=Mark |date=1991 |title=God and the World: The Place of Explanation in Natural Theology |type=DPhil dissertation |publisher=University of Oxford |oclc=863336966}}
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, Wynn 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.
In 2022, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.{{cite web |title=Record number of women elected to the British Academy |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/record-number-of-women-elected-to-the-british-academy/ |website=The British Academy |access-date=15 August 2022 |language=en |date=22 July 2022}}
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
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External links
- [https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/prof-mark-wynn Professor Mark Wynn] at the University of Oxford Faculty of Theology and Religion
- [https://www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-mark-wynn Professor Mark Wynn] at Oriel College
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Category:20th-century English philosophers
Category:20th-century English theologians
Category:21st-century English philosophers
Category:21st-century English theologians
Category:Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford
Category:Christian philosophers
Category:Nolloth Professors of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion
Category:British philosophers of religion
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)