George Pattison

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George Pattison (b.1950) MA BD (Edinburgh) PhD DD (Durham) is a leading British systematic theologian.

Pattison is currently the Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and a canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. Prior to his appointment in 2004 (Pattison succeeded John Webster upon his move to the University of Aberdeen to be Professor of Systematic Theology), he was an Associate Professor at the University of Århus (2002-03) and Dean of King's College, Cambridge (1991-2001). He is also Vice-President of the Modern Churchpeople's Union.

Pattison's works range from historical, theological and philosophical engagement with the works of Søren Kierkegaard and Martin Heidegger to the relationship between theology and culture and, more recently, the technological society.

[edit] Major Works

• Art, Modernity and Faith (1991)
• Kierkegaard: the Aesthetic and the Religious (1992)
• Agnosis: Theology in the Void (1996)
• Kierkegaard and the Crisis of Faith (1997)
• The End of Theology and the Task of Thinking about God (1998)
• Anxious Angels (1999)
• The Later Heidegger (2000)
• A Short Course in the Philosophy of Religion (2001)
• Dostoevsky and the Christian Tradition (ed. with D.Thompson, 1991)
• A Short Course in Christian Doctrine (2005)
• The Philosophy of Kierkegaard (2005)
• Thinking about God in an Age of Technology (2006)

[edit] See also

Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford