Faculty members

Dr Russell Re Manning

Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion, Fellow and Wine Steward of St Edmund’s College

My research interests fall into three main areas:

A reconsideration of the varieties of natural theology, from its origins in Greek philosophy to its contemporary revival in the science and religion field
An engagement with the philosophical theology of Paul Tillich
An assessment of contemporary postmodern theologies of culture

The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
The Cambridge Companion to Paul Tillich (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Theology at the End of Culture. Paul Tillich's Theology of Culture and Art. Leuven: Peeters Press, 2005.

Paul Tillich’ in K Pollmann and W. Otten (eds.), A Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
‘Tillich’s Theology of Art’ in R. Re Manning (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Paul Tillich. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
‘Mere summing up? Some considerations on the history of the concept of emergence and its significance for science and religion’ in Science and Christian Belief, 18(2) 2006.
‘The place of Christ in Tillich's theology of culture’ in D. Lax (ed.), Jesus der Christus - "Mitte der Geschichte"!? Zu Paul Tillichs Christologie. Munster: LIT Verlag, 2005.
‘Une éthique sociale chrétienne en devenir: le socialisme religieux de Paul Tillich et la théorie sociale théologique de John Milbank’ in M. Boss (ed.), Le socialisme religieux de Paul Tillich: une éthique en devenir? Munster: LIT Verlag, 2005.
‘Towards a critical reconstruction and defense of Tillich's theology of art’ in ARTS: The Arts in Religious and Theological Studies, 16(2), 32-38 2005.
‘The trinitarian background to tillich's theology of culture’ in G. D. L. Hummel (ed.), Trinitat und/oder Quaternitat. Paul Tillichs Neuerschliessung der trinitarischen Problematik (pp. 3-18). Munster: LIT Verlag, 2004.
‘Tillich's theology of culture after postcolonialism’ in The North American Paul Tillich Society Bulletin, XXVIII(2), 25-32 2002.

Co-chair of the American Academy of Religion Group Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture
Elected member of the Board of Directors, North American Paul Tillich Society
Director of Studies in Theology at Downing & Selwyn Colleges
Director of Studies in Philosophy at St Edmund’s College

Guy Bennett-Hunter, Ineffability and Religious Life: A Philosophical Study
Michael Byrne, An Evolutionary and Panentheistic Perspective on the Doctrine of Creation
Matthew Solomon, The Case for Analogy in the Development of a Metaphysical Notion of Causality
Mathias Grebe, Revelation in Paul Tillich and Karl Barth
Peter Bryson, Thomas Jackson’s Philosophical Theology and its Christian Neoplatonic Sources

Faculty of Divinity
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Email: rrm24@cam.ac.uk