Originally from Sydney, Australia, Dr. David Bennett is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Theology of Religion and Associate Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall. With a background in French and Cultural Studies, he now holds a CTPS and PGDip in Theology and Religion and an MLitt in Analytic and Exegetical Theology from St Andrews earning the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence for his thesis on Sarah Coakley’s theology of the Trinity and desire.
He recently completed his doctorate entitled ‘Queering the Queer: An exploration of how gay celibate asceticism can renew and inform the role of desire in contemporary Anglican theology.’ During this time, he helped to establish the research project, ‘The public legitimacy of the Church of England’ as a research assistant to Professor of Christian Ethics, Joshua Hordern, through a TORCH knowledge exchange fellowship with the Centre of Cultural Witness, Lambeth Palace.
His research interests include Trinitarian systematics, theological anthropology of love, desire, and the body, analytic and philosophical theology, Christian political thought, contemporary critical theories, Augustine and Augustinianisms, Anglican moral and pastoral theology, and patristics.
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