THE MCDONALD CENTRE for , Ethics, and Public Life

Report 2018-19

MA = Matthew Anderson, Associate Fellow NJB = Nigel Biggar, Director JB = Jonathan Brant, Associate Research Fellow EB = Edward Brooks, Associate Fellow DD = Dafydd Daniel, McDonald Lecturer in Christian Ethics ED = Edward David, Research Assistant ML = Marc LiVecche, McDonald Visiting Scholar AM = Ashley Moyse, McDonald Post-Doctoral Fellow in Christian Ethics and Public Life MW = Matthew Wilkinson = Associate Research Fellow

A. Strategic aims

The mission of the McDonald Centre is to bring a Christian intelligence to bear on ethical issues of public concern, with a view to  developing Christian ethics’ grasp of contemporary issues  commending a Christian vision of moral life in society at large  raising the quality of public deliberation about ethical issues; and  encouraging Christian ethicists in the art of honest engagement with fellow-members of a ‘secular’ (i.e., plural) public.

B. Highlights

 Dr James Orr, McDonald Post-Doctoral Fellow in Christian Ethics and Public Life from 2014-18, has secured a permanent position as University Lecturer in the Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge from 1 September 2019.  The edited proceedings of the 2017 conference, “The Ethics of Everyday Life: Moral Theology Meets Anthropology and the Social Sciences”, edited by Dr Brian Williams and Dr Michael Lamb, have been accepted for publication by Georgetown University Press.  In October 2018, the Oxford Character Project’s “The Humility Gap”’, a public engagement initiative exploring the virtue of intellectual humility in contentious public debates, was launched with support from the University of Connecticut’s Humility and Conviction in Public Life Project.  “The Great War: its End and its Effects”, a McDonald Centre–Christ Church Cathedral series of public lectures to commemorate the end of the First World War was run from January to March 2019.  Professor Nigel Biggar was invited to join a panel discussion of “The Legacy of Empire” at the Times Cheltenham Literary Festival in October 2018, which drew an audience of 1100.  Dr Dafydd Daniel featured in an episode of The Story of God with Morgan Freeman entitled ‘Deadly Sins’ on the National Geographic Channel (broadcast in March 2019 in the USA and in May 2019 in the UK). 2

 In January 2019 Dr Marc LiVecche gave four lectures at the US Army Chaplains Europe annual training in Germany, speaking on just war and moral injury to about 150 US Army chaplains stationed throughout the Europe and Africa commands.  Dr Ashley Moyse was appointed Associate Fellow of the Academy of Fellows, the Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity at Trinity International University in October 2018.

C. Summary of activities and achievements

Professor Nigel Biggar, Director NJB was on research leave from mid-October 2018 until late April 2019, intent upon completing his book, What’s Wrong with Rights? In the three and a half years from April 2015 to October 2018, he had written 75,000 words of it; in the six months of research leave he wrote a further 100,000 words and finished the book. It is now under consideration for publication by Oxford University Press (e.t.a. Spring 2020). Notwithstanding his monomaniacal focus on writing his book, NJB flew to Japan in January at the invitation of the Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, an American Methodist foundation, to deliver a keynote lecture, “Nationalism, Historic Grievance, and Reconciliation”. The following month he flew to Florida to take part in a day-conference on pacifism and just war at Palm Beach Atlantic University. His entry into military circles has continued to deepen—with invitations to address a conference at the National Defense University, Washington, DC; a Royal Navy conference marking the 50th anniversary of its Continuous At Sea Deterrent; the UK’s Chief of Defence Staff Strategy Forum; and international students at the Royal College of Defence Studies. The success of the Times newspaper’s panel discussion on the ‘Legacy of the British Empire” in May 2018 resulted in an invitation to repeat his performance at the Times Cheltenham Literary Festival, which attracted an audience of over 1100. Although he has not written for the press as much this year, he did write his longest article—a two thousand word-long piece on Cambridge University’s decision to dig up its connections with slavery, which appeared as a Times ’Saturday Essay’ in May 2019.

Dr Dafydd Daniel, McDonald Lecturer in Christian Ethics In January 2018, DD was chosen as one of ten BBC and Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) New Generation Thinkers: early career academics working across the humanities, “who can bring the best of university research and scholarly ideas to a broad audience through working with the media”. He appeared at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival at the Sage in Gateshead in March 2018, where he spoke about Sir Isaac Newton’s and belief in alchemy (a portion of which was later broadcast on Radio 3). Since then he has had proposals for appearances on BBC Radio 3 accepted and been invited to discuss such issues as: the relationship between rioting and reform, and the emergence of the mob as a political entity, in eighteenth-century Britain and America (May 2018); theological conceptions of witchcraft and the history of witch-trials (October 2018); secularisation and religious heterodoxy in the British Enlightenment (November 2018). He

3 appeared again at the BBC Ratio 3 Free Thinking Festival in March 2019 to deliver The Essay, which will later be broadcast on Radio 3; it is entitled: “Where do human rights come from?”’ DD features in an episode of The Story of God with Morgan Freeman entitled ‘Deadly Sins’ on the National Geographic Channel (broadcast March 2019 (USA) May 2019 (UK)). As well as a book contract, papers at academic conferences, and articles submitted for review, DD had pieces commissioned by The Spectator and Inference: International Review of Science. In January 2018, DD received funding from the Mellon Foundation, administered by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), to run the conference: “Who Chooses Who We Are? Tensions in Identity”. After a number of submissions, papers were accepted from scholars at the , University of Cambridge, SOAS, KCL, and Oxford Brookes University. The conference was fully-booked and took place in Oxford, January 2019.

Dr Marc LiVecche, McDonald Visiting Scholar Beginning his work at the McDonald Centre in August, ML’s first major goal of his time in Oxford, the publication of his dissertation The Good Kill: Just War & Moral Injury, is advanced as far as he can presently take it. His completed revised manuscript is with Oxford University Press (USA) for review. He has heard positive, if partial, feedback from one reviewer and is sitting uncomfortably on pins and needles whist awaiting official word from the publisher. His second major book project, provisionally titled, Moral Horror: A Christian Defense of the Bombing of Hiroshima is being researched and outlined. By the end of May, ML will submit a proposal to publishers. This book is geared toward a more popular audience then the first. George Weigel, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center (not Centre) in Washington, DC has offered to help shepherd it to an editor at Encounter Books. He wants the draft done by the end of summer. Additionally, ML is working with Eric Patterson, an American just war scholar, on an edited volume evaluating the life work (still ongoing!) of just war scholar James Turner Johnson. The book has a very nearly complete table of contents and full stable of committed writers. A proposal is being drafted to be sent to a publisher. Beyond books, ML has been doing a modest amount of lecturing and other-writing. In November, he spoke at the Providence journal’s and national security conference in Washington, DC. In January, he gave four lectures at the US Army Chaplains Europe annual training in Germany, speaking on just war and moral injury to about 150 US Army chaplains stationed throughout the Europe and Africa commands. In March, he lectured on Christian love in the midst of war at the English L’Abri. Later that month, he gave a paper on moral injury at the McCain Conference, the annual ethics conference at the US Naval Academy’s Stockdale Center for Ethics and Leadership. In May, ML will also be speaking on C.S. Lewis and war at the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society, and on just war and moral injury, again, at the European chapter of the International Society of Military Ethics Conference in Vienna. Like NB, ML is keen to more firmly position himself in military circles, both educational and professional. A further manifestation of this desire is ML’s work to develop a new Providence sub-project: a digital reader geared toward military chaplains and others in the profession of arms charged with the moral formation and care of warfighters. It will

4 feature accessible essays drawn from the other Providence work, newly written pieces, interviews, resource (book, movie, etc.) reviews, study guides, etc. Aiming to be published quarterly, or possibly three times a year, ML is working with US Command Chaplain for US Army Europe Col. Timothy Mallard and others to have the reader approved by the Department of Defense. Beyond regular writings for Providence, ML finalized a chapter for the upcoming volume on World War I and Christian ethics for National Defense University Press, to be released in spring of 2019. The paper was drawn from his participation in the same NDU that NB participated in. ML is also finishing up an invited essay on Christian realism to The Public Justice Review, to be published in June. Lastly, NB and ML are co-hosting a just war workshop with Catholic University of America and Providence, in June at the McDonald Centre. Many of the primary Christian just war scholars working today will be in attendance.

Dr Ashley Moyse, McDonald Postdoctoral Fellow in Christian Ethics and Public Life AM began his appointment with the McDonald Centre in October 2018. After relocating to Oxford from Canada in late August. He has thrown himself into the work of the University, including teaching, supervision, and research. This includes the preparation of a draft manuscript of his second monograph, The art of living for the technological age (forthcoming 2019/20, Fortress Press). Prof Brent Waters, Jerre and Mary Joy Stead Professor of Christian Social Ethics at Garreth-Evangelical Theological Seminary, is preparing an afterword. AM participated in the 2018 annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics, giving a paper that the vulnerability to despair experienced by both patients and medical professionals confronting terminal diagnoses and futile interventions. He has also presented related research on despair and medical assistance in dying, which draws upon the writings and method of Gabriel Marcel, for a HT Christian Ethics research seminar and for the 2019 annual meeting of the Academy of Fellows at the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity (Trinity International University). AM’s research on despair, including diagnoses and responses (drawing on Marcel’s examination of hope and patience) will focus much of his research for the next 12-18 months, with an aim to prepare his third authored book. Accordingly, AM has submitted a monograph proposal for consideration to Harvard University Press. AM joined a Ditchley Foundation meeting in February 2019 that examined questions at the intersection of machine learning and genetic engineering as both a participant and rapporteur. Emerging from the conference theme was a connection with Andrew Briggs (materials), Joshua Hordern (theology), and Michael Osborne (machine learning) who are co- applicants with AM (serving as the PI) in a TORCH Oxford-Martin School Interdisciplinary Research Network grant application. The project has been approved by the Faculty of Theology & Religion and is awaiting decision from the granting body. The project title is Machine Learning, Human Being, and the Future of Predictive Medicine and Healthcare Services. AM collaborated with Prof Jens Zimmerman (Regent College/Trinity Western University) to prepare for, to plan, and to execute a day conference (December 2018) hosted

5 at Mansfield College, “Being human—being a person: contemporary perspectives in philosophical and theological anthropology”. This was supported by the British Academy and the Issachar Foundation, and involved contributions from Professor John Behr (St Vladimir’s Theological Seminary, NY), Professor Graham Ward (Oxford), Professor Brent Waters (Garrett Evangelical Seminary, Evanston, IL), Professor Holger Zaborowski (Philosophisch- Theologische Hochschule Vallendar, Germany), and Professor Jens Zimmerman (Trinity Western University/Regent College, Vancouver, Canada). AM and Jens Zimmerman have been joined by Dr Michael Burdett (Nottingham) as co-editors of the Oxford Handbook on Theological Anthropology. The project is in planning stages now, with an aim for publication in 2021/2.

D. The 2019 May conference

Uniquely, participation in the McDonald Centre’s May conference in 2019, “Academic Freedom under Threat: What’s to be Done?”, was by invitation-only and limited to fifty places. This was partly to create the intimacy necessary for focussed and coherent conversation, but also partly to avoid any hostile disruption. At the last moment, all three of the most famous speakers withdrew for a variety of reasons—Niall Ferguson, Jordan Peterson, and Roger Scruton. Nevertheless, fourteen speakers remained, drawn from the UK, the US, Canada, and South Africa. Journalists from the BBC, the Financial Times, the Times, the Guardian, the Spectator, the Oxford Magazine, and Quillette were present; and all the proceedings were recorded for editing and mounting on U-tube.

E. Projects

Ethics and Empire (NJB) The next conference, on empires in the medieval period, will be held in July 2019.

The Great War: its End and its Effects (NJB) This series of public lectures to mark the end of the First World War was mounted in collaboration with Christ Church Cathedral. The lectures were: January 15: Gary Sheffield, Professor of War Studies, University of Wolverhampton: “Victory in 1918: Should we Celebrate it?” January 22: Margaret MacMillan, former Warden of St Antony’s College, Oxford: “How far did the Versailles Treaty make Peace?” January 29: Mark Chapman, Professor of the History of Modern Theology, University of Oxford: “The Impact of the Great War on the Christian Religion” February 5: Martin Ceadel, Professor of Politics, New College, Oxford: “The Inter-war Peace Movements” February 12: Annika Mombauer, Professor of Modern European History, Open University: “Changing German Views of the Great War” February 19: Hew Strachan, Professor of International Relations, University of St Andrews: “Changing British Views of the Great War”

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February 26: Rob Johnson, Senior Research Fellow, ‘Changing Character of War’ programme, Pembroke College, Oxford: “The War in the Middle East” March 5: Ali Allawi, former Iraqi Minister of Defence and of Finance: “The McMahon Correspondence, the Sykes-Picot Agreement, and the Balfour Declaration: British policy on the Middle East” Inequality (ED) ED is writing up a report on the fruits of his research into the ethics of inequality.

The Oxford Character Project (EB and JB) The Oxford Character Project (OCP), directed by McDonald Centre Associate Fellows, Dr Edward Brooks and Dr Jonathan Brant, undertakes academic research and delivers practical programmes that seek to help students develop the character qualities needed for life and leadership that furthers the good of society. OCP held workshops outside of Oxford in the UK, Europe, and Hong Kong. EB was invited to present a paper on “Character Education in the University” at the North American Association for Philosophy and Education annual conference in Chicago (October 2018), and a keynote address on ”Cultivating Wise Thinkers and Good Leaders” at the Positive Education Conference at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (November 2018). In October 2018, “The Humility Gap”’, a public engagement initiative exploring the virtue of intellectual humility in contentious public debates was launched with support from the University of Connecticut’s Humility and Conviction in Public Life Project. In February 2019, EB joined with Dr Michael Lamb, former McDonald Centre postdoctoral fellow and current Director of the Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University, to organise an international conference at Wake Forest on character and leadership under the title, the “Arts of Leading”. EB also received a teaching and learning grant from the University of Hong Kong to build on a programme he first led in 2017 and engage in research in conjunction with the university’s Faculty of Social Sciences. He was also invited to participate in a recent Ditchley Foundation colloquium on the future of modern education. The OCP's programming activity continues to be well received, with a recent leadership and character development forum at the LSE, ongoing work in a pilot schools programme for Year 12 students at Eton College and the London Academy of Excellence, as well as our core Oxford work. Two journal articles have been submitted in the last two months with one more to follow shortly and have two edited volumes of conference papers in preparation. The OCP’s “Humility Gap” podcast on open-mindedness in academic and public discourse will be released in June. News is awaited from the John Templeton Foundation regarding a grant proposal submitted for a three-year project exploring student character development with a specific focus on the sectors of business, law and scientific and technological innovation.

Understanding Conversion to Islam in Prison (MW) UCIP began on 1 December 2017 and is investigating: who are converts to Islam both socio- demographically and religiously; why many inmates convert to Islam in European prisons;

7 what types of Islam(-ism) are embraced in prison; what the benefits and risks are of embracing Islam in prison; how the process of conversion is managed by the prison authorities and the Prison Chaplaincy. It is researching in 6 English prisons, 1 French prison, and 3 Swiss prisons, using mixed-methods research. Year 1 (1 December 2017-30 November 2018) was dedicated to gaining the support of the Prison Governors for access to Category A, B, C and D prisons in England, France, and Switzerland. Based on this Prison Governor support, UCIP formally applied to HMPPS National Research Committee for access to English prisons. HMPPS National Research Committee rejected the application on the grounds that "HMPPS already knows about conversion to Islam in Prison." This claim caused some uproar in the media to the effect that, given its documented positive rehabilitative and negative terrorist consequences, both HMPPS and the public needed to know much more about conversion to Islam in prison. Consequently, Prisons Minister, Rory Stewart OBE MP, intervened on behalf of the project on the grounds that UCIP was a well-conceived research programme supported by an excellent team with 5 Research Aims that HMPPS did indeed need to know more about. UCIP was granted access to prisons on 31 November 2018 for a pilot study at HMP Coldingley, Surrey (Category C). Year 2 runs from 1 December 2018 to 30 November 2019. In March, the research team completed the pilot study at HMP Coldingley with a high, statistically significant response rate from prisoners of 52%: 57 x completed Prisoner Questionnaires; 38 x completed 45-minute Prisoner Interviews; 6 x observations of Friday Prayer and Chaplaincy Events. At HMP Coldingley, UCIP was supported excellently by inmates, officers and prison management. In April, the project reported its findings to the HMPPS National Research Committee, who agreed with the Prison Governor of HMP Coldingley that our findings about the practice, understanding and management of Islam in prison would greatly improve their practice, and indeed already had. Consequently, the HMPPS National Research Committee authorised research to begin at HMP Swaleside, Kent (Category B) which began on Tuesday, 7 May 2019.

Religious Freedom under Threat MA is preparing a selection of the proceedings of the 2018 conference for publication in a special issue of Studies in Christian Ethics.

F. NJB: lectures and publications

Invited lectures and talks “Why is Empire Controversial?”, Derek Parfit Lecture, Eton College, 2 May 2019 “The Christian Justification of War” and “The Ethics of Using Armed Drones”, Faith and Culture Forum: Christian Perspectives on War and Peace, Palm Beach Atlantic University, 7 February 2019 “Was the British Empire all Bad?”, St Paul’s School, Hammersmith, London, 4 February 2019

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“Nationalism, Historic Grievance, and Reconciliation”, keynote lecture, IAMSCU Research University Symposium, “Nationalism and Reconciliation”, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan, 12 January, 2019 “Ethics and the ‘Grey Zone’”, Chief of Defence Staff Strategy Forum, International Institute for Strategic Studies (4 December 2018) “The Ethics of War”, Royal College of Defence Studies (22 November 2018) “The Legacy of Empire”, panel discussion, Cheltenham Literary Festival (7 October 2018) “Reconciliation: a Goal of Military Endeavour”, conference on The Ethics of Stabilisation and Security: Principles for Jus Post Bellum, Royal College of Defence Studies (25 September 2018) “The Ethics of Cyberwarfare”, conference on Military Operations in Cyberspace, Wilton Park (6 September 2018) “What Military Ethics Should Learn from World War I: A Christian Assessment”, International Military Ethics Society conference to mark the end of World War I, National Defense University, Washington, DC (30 July 2018) “Anglican Establishment: How is it Liberal?”, McDonald Centre conference, “Is Religious Liberty under Threat? Transatlantic Perpectives”, Christ Church, Oxford (24 May 2018) “Why We Should Learn to Live with Trident”, lecture to conference marking the 50th anniversary of the Royal Navy’s Continuous At Sea Deterrent, National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth, 15-16 June 2018

Book in progress What’s Wrong with Rights? is under consideration for publication by Oxford University Press.

Chapters in books (published & forthcoming) “Military Chaplaincy, Christian Witness, and the Ethics of War”, in David Fergusson and Bruce McCormick, eds, Schools of Faith: Essays on Theology, Ethics, and Education (London: T. & T. Clark, 2019) “In Defence of Just War: Christian Tradition, Controversies, and Cases”, in Ad de Bruijne and Gerard den Hertog, eds, The Present ‘Just Peace/Just War’ Debate: Two Discussions or One?, Beihefte zur Ökumenischen Rundschau, 121 (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2018). “Peace and War in Christian Thought: A Partisan Guide”, in Lester R. Kurtz, ed., The Warrior and the Pacifist: Competing Motifs in Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (New York: Routledge, 2018) “Stagger Onward, Rejoicing: Jean Bethke Elshtain, Augustinian Realist”, in Michael Chevallier and Debra Erickson, eds, Jean Bethke Elshtain: Politics, Ethics, and Society (Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2018)

Articles in journals (published & forthcoming) “What’s Wrong with Subjective Rights?”, History of European Ideas, 45 (2019) “Proportionality: Lessons from the Somme”, Soundings,101/3 (2018)

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Other publications (bulletins, pamphlets, newspaper articles and letters, interviews, blogs) “Cambridge is lost in a cloud of leftist virtue-signalling”, Weekend Essay, The Times, 4 May 2019 “Nuclear honours service at Westminster Abbey”, letter, The Times, 8 April 2019. “Cambridge has Double Standards on Free Speech”, The Times, 4 April 2019 “Cambridge and the Exclusion of Jordan Peterson”, The Article, 2 April 2019 “Why aren’t illiberal universities challenged?”, Unherd, 1 February 2019 “Thank God for the Royal Air Force!”, Providence, 12 (Fall 2018) “Campaign to make history lessons less white”, letter, The Times, 19 October 2018 “Should judges decide on the right to die?”, letter, The Times, 8 October 2018; reprinted as “Trust MPs, not judges”, leading letter, ‘Pick of the week’s correspondence’, The Week, 13 October 2018 “After Iraq and Afghanistan: When Should the UK Go To War?”, British Army Review, 172 (Summer 2018) “Obsession with Gender Identity Goes too Far”, The Times, 2 August 2018

Radio, podcasts, etc. Providence Magazine, “The Horror or the Glory? The Thin Red Line Twenty Years Later”: https://providencemag.com/podcast/dark-ops-provcast-ep-2-horror-glory-thin-red- line-20-years-later/ BBC Radio 4, “University Unchallenged”, 12 November 2018 Premier Christian Radio (London) in conversation with Michael Ruse on Darwinism, Christianity, and World War I, 11 November 2018 “The Legacy of the British Empire (with Ben MacIntyre)”, panel discussion sponsored by the Times, Cheltenham Literary Festival, 7 October 2018

G. DD: lectures and publications

Invited talks and appearances ‘Ending the divorce “blame-game” is a mistake’, The Spectator, ‘Coffee House’ (online), April 2019 https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/04/ending-the-divorce-blame-game-is-a mistake/ The Story of God, with Morgan Freeman, Series 3, Episode 4: ‘Deadly Sins’ (forthcoming: March (USA)/May (UK) 2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzaBB3dVqWs ‘Where do human rights come from?’, The Essay – BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival, The Sage, Gateshead (forthcoming: March 2019) http://www.sagegateshead.com/event/radio-3-free-thinking-festival-new- generation-thinker-dafydd-mills-daniel/ ‘Rethinking the Human Condition’. Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking, 1st November 2018 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000ywk ‘Enchantment, Witches and Woodlands’. Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking, 18th October 2018 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000qkl

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Panellist, English National Opera Pre-Performance Discussion, Richard Strauss’ Salome, October 2018 https://soundcloud.com/englishnationalopera/salome-baylis_03 ‘Why the killing of 7 protesters in 1768 was a “massacre”: Dafydd Daniel on the Massacre of St George’s Fields’. BBC Radio 3 podcast https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p068jxsq Invited speaker, ‘Character Education, Secular Liberalism, and “British Values”’, AHRC Research Forum, Swindon, June 2018 ‘Out of Control’. Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking, 8th May 2018 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b1pyn4

‘The One and the Many: Introducing the New Generation Thinkers’. Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking, 3rd April 2018 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09xjk48 ‘Introducing the New Generation Thinkers’ and ‘Speed Dating with the New Generation Thinkers’. Appearances at BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival, The Sage, Gateshead, March 2018

Conference papers ‘Civil Law, Canon Law, and the Moral Law: Anglican Orthodoxy and the British Enlightenment’, Ecclesiastical History Society, Institute of Historical Research, London, January 2019 ‘Does Contemporary Character Education Rest on a Mistake?’, Philosophy, Religion, and Education Research Forum, Department of Education, University of Oxford, May 2018

Book Ethical Rationalism and Secularisation in the British Enlightenment (forthcoming: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

Articles ‘“Modern Infidels”, “Conscientious Fools”, and the Douglas Affair: The Rhetoric of Conscience in the Scottish Enlightenment’, Journal of Religion (under review: revise and resubmit) ‘Orthodoxy Law, Moral Law, and the Bangorian Controversy: Benjamin Hoadly’s Religion of Conscience’, Studies in Church History (under review) ‘Models of (Re-)Enchantment’, Inference: International Review of Science, Volume 4, Issue 3 (March 2019)

Other publications ‘Feature: Interview with…Dr Dafydd Mills Daniel’, The Oxford Theologian, Issue 7 (Summer 2018) ‘Russia 2018: How world class football can “normalise” unacceptable politics’, AHRC Research Features https://ahrc.ukri.org/research/readwatchlisten/features/russia-2018-how world-class-football-can-normailse-unacceptable-politics/

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‘Contemporary Neglect of Conscience is a Mistake’, Talking Humanities Blog, School of Advanced Studies, University of London https://talkinghumanities.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2018/04/24/contemporary-neglect- conscience-mistake/ ‘Nationalism, Patriotism, and Sport: What does it mean to love your country?’, The AHRC Blog https://ahrc-blog.com/2018/03/28/nationalism-patriotism-and-sport-what- does-it-mean-to-love-your-country/ ‘Oxford researchers chosen as New Generation Thinkers’, University of Oxford Arts Blog http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/arts-blog/oxford-researchers-chosen-new-generation thinkers

H. AM: publications

Conference Papers “Hugging death, Anticipating Suicide: Vulnerability of Despair and the Marcelian Response to Medical Assistance in Dying,” for the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics Annual Conference, Durham, UK, September 2018.

Editing AM is the lead editor/advisor with Scott A. Kirkland for Dispatches: Turning points in theology and global crises book series (Minneapolis: Fortress Press). Recent titles are: John W de Gruchy, The End is Not Yet (October 2017); Cyril Hovorun, Political Orthodoxy (October 2018); John C McDowell, Theology and the Globalized Present (April 2019); Marcus Pound, Theology, Comedy, Politics (September 2019).

Book Treating the Body in Medicine and Religion: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Perspectives, Routledge Studies in Religion, edited and introduced by John Fitzgerald and Ashley John Moyse, Foreword by Jeffrey P. Bishop; Prologue by H Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2019.

Book Chapters “Responsibility for the broken body: Exploring the invitation to respond to the presence of the other.” In: Treating the Body in Medicine and Religion: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Perspectives (Routledge Studies in Religion), edited and introduced by John Fitzgerald and Ashley John Moyse, Foreword by Jeffrey P. Bishop; Special introduction by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, April 2019) “Introduction,” with J. Fitzgerald. In: Treating the Body in Medicine and Religion: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Perspectives (Routledge Studies in Religion), edited and introduced by John Fitzgerald and Ashley John Moyse, Foreword by Jeffrey Bishop and Preface by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, April 2019)

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Articles “Understanding modern, technological medicine: enchanted, disenchanted, or other?”, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, vol. 39, no. 6 (December, 2018) [printed online 15 November 2018: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-018-9473-9] “Discerning the contours of hope in and for dark times,” under review for a special issue of Religions (guest editor: John C McDowell)

Acknowledgements Warm thanks are owed to the Centre’s Administrative Officer, Ginny Dunn, for administering this year’s May conference and Advisory Council meeting.

Nigel Biggar, Director Christ Church, Oxford 6 May 2019