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 The Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion is a chair at the University of Oxford, associated with Oriel College, Oxford, Oriel College. The chair was established in 1920 by an endowment from Charles Frederick Nolloth, on ...

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. 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,

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. He earned a

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in 1991 at Oxford ( Linacre College) under the supervision of Brian Davies and

Richard Swinburne Richard Granville Swinburne (; born 26 December 1934) is an English philosopher. He is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Over the last 50 years, Swinburne has been a proponent of philosophical arguments for the e ...

for his dissertation, ''God and the World: The Place of Explanation in Natural Theology''. Following a position at

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, he became a research fellow at

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. He then held positions at the

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and the

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. From 2013 to 2020, Wynn was a professor of philosophy and religion at the

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. He joined the Faculty of Theology and Religion and the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford in July 2020. In 2022, he was elected a

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(FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.

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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