Mark Wynn Explained

Mark R. Wynn
Awards:	Fellow of the British Academy (2022)
Module2:	Child: yes Thesis Title: God and the World: The Place of Explanation in Natural Theology Thesis Year: 1991 Doctoral Advisor: Brian Davies Richard Swinburne Discipline: Philosophy, theology

Mark Wynn 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.^{[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, 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.^[5]

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)

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nolloth Professorship of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion . University of Oxford . 6 August 2021 . en . 10 June 2019.
2. Web site: New Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion Admitted to Governing Body . Oriel College, University of Oxford . 6 August 2021 . 15 October 2020.
3. Web site: Mark Wynn . Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford . 6 August 2021.
4. Wynn . Mark . 1991 . God and the World: The Place of Explanation in Natural Theology . DPhil dissertation . University of Oxford . 863336966.
5. Web site: Record number of women elected to the British Academy . The British Academy . 15 August 2022 . en . 22 July 2022.