Ruth Gornandt

Associate Faculty Member
ruth.gornandt@theology.ox.ac.uk

Position(s) held:

Marie Curie Fellow at the Faculty of Theology and Religion (Oct 2019 – Sept 2022)

Research interests:

  • Late Medieval Armenian theology, particularly Gregory of Tatev
  • Scholastic theology and its impact on Armenian theology
  • Natural theology
  • Theology and Science, particularly the Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR)
  • Monasticism in the Lutheran Churches

Current projects:

  • The theology of Gregory of Tatev and its sources (Greek and Hellenistic theology, Greek Patristics, Scholastic theology)
  • Natural theology and natural belief in Western and Armenian theology
  • Reform and Tradition in Lutheran monasteries of the 17th century

Courses taught:

Tutorial Early Modern Christianity (in Theology and Religion, HT 2022)

Recent publications:

‘“Implanted in Us by Nature”: The Cognitive Science of Religion and its Importance for Theology’, The Heythrop Journal 64 (2023), 745–762. https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14256

‘“Sober Theology”: An Enigmatic Expression in Gregory of Tatev and its Background’, Le Muséon 136 (2023), 477–491.

’On Knowing and Unknowing God: Reason and Mysticism in the Armenian Theologian Gregory of Tatev’, Journal of Theological Studies 74 (2023), 306–339. https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flac133

Full publications:

ORCID 0000-0002-8168-1068

My university website: https://users.ox.ac.uk/~theo1145/

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