POSTGRADUATE PROSPECTUS - London School of Theology

LST 20Paul HelmAssociate Research FacultyBA MA (Oxon)Paul Helm was Professor ofHistory and Philosophy ofReligion at King’s College,London, 1993-2000. Previous to that he was a Readerin Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, where hetaught for many years. He is now a Teaching Fellowat Regent College, Vancouver, where he was J.I.PackerProfessor of Philosophical Theology 2001-5. He alsoteaches at the Highland Theological College.Paul is interested in supervising research studentsin Philosophy of Religion, Systematic Theology andTheology of the Reformation. Paul’s interests arein all aspects of philosophical theology and in anyChristian theological views that have philosophicalimplications. In particular, he is currently interestedin God’s relation to time (with reference to theoriesof the temporal order) and philosophical aspects ofthe ideas of John Calvin. He approaches these in anunabashedly analytic mode, and so his intellectualconnections and sympathies are more with ReformedOrthodoxy and medievalism than with modern‘continental’ philosophy.Andrew KirkAssociate Research FacultyBD (London) BA (Cantab)MPhil (London)AKC (King's College, London)Andrew’s whole workinglife has been in teaching at a postgraduate levelin different forms of adult education. He has wideexperience in teaching in a cross-cultural situation.His most recent teaching responsibilities have beenas a visiting lecturer in the MTh mission programmeof the Protestant Institute for Mission Studiesin Budapest, in the MA in Contextual Missiologyprogramme of the International Baptist TheologicalSeminary (IBTS) in Prague and the MA programmeof the Baptist Faculty, University of Bucharest.Andrew is interested in supervising research studentsdoing research in the field of Missiology, in particularissues to do with the Theology of Mission, theContextualisation of the Gospel, Witness in a SecularEnvironment, Apologetics, Interreligious matters(especially touching Islam and the West) and LatinAmerican Theology and Mission.Tony LaneProfessor of HistoricalTheologyMA BD DD (Oxon)Tony studied Maths andTheology at Oxford andCambridge before joining LST’s faculty in 1973. Hehas remained here since, apart from a year awayspent teaching in Kenya and researching in the USA.In 2000 he was recognised by Brunel University asProfessor of Historical Theology and in 2004 hewas awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity byOxford University.An enthusiast for Christian doctrine, andespecially its history, Tony has the ability toexpress complex doctrinal concepts. His desireis for students to become more aware of theriches of the Christian heritage. For many yearsTony chaired the Tyndale Fellowship DoctrineGroup and he is one of the Presidium that runsfour-yearly international congresses on Calvinresearch. He has examined PhDs for variousuniversities, including Oxford, Cambridge, Londonand Edinburgh.Tony is interested in supervising students inhistorical theology. His prime specialisms areCalvin and Bernard of Clairvaux, though he hasalso supervised theses on other theologiansfrom the Early Church, the Middle Ages and thesixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as well asJürgen Moltmann. Theological themes that areof interest to him are especially Scripture andtradition, sin and grace, justification, sacramentsand Catholic-Protestant dialogue.Alison LoLecturer in Old TestamentBTh (Evangel Seminary,Hong Kong) MDiv (TrinityInternational University,Illinois) PhD (Glos)Alison was born and brought up in Hong Kong.She earned her PhD degree in Old Testamentfrom the University of Gloucestershire (2002).Alison was Visiting Scholar at the HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem (2003-2004), undertakingher post-doctoral research on Medieval JewishPerspective on Job 1-2. Before joining the facultyat LST, she taught at the Chinese University ofHong Kong (2004-2007).Alison’s area of special interest is in wisdomliterature, prophetic literature, and the Psalms.GrahamMcFarlaneBA Course Leader andSenior Lecturer inSystematic TheologyBA MA (CNAA) Dip Ed(Glasgow) TQSE (RE) PhD (London)Graham lectures in Systematic Theology. Hetrained at LST (BA & MA), and taught RE for 4years before taking his PhD at King’s College(KQC) with Colin Gunton. He joined the School’sfaculty in 1990 as Lecturer in Systematic Theologyand Assistant Director of Research. Graham enjoysencouraging people to think through their faith.Graham supervises research students in SystematicTheology from an Evangelical perspective. He isparticularly interested in atonement, hamartiology,relational theology which includes trinitariantheology, christology, pneumatology, theologicalanthropology and soteriology. His research interestin Edward Irving continues as well as interest inother nineteenth century Scottish theologians. Hehas successfully supervised to completion severalPhDs in Orthodox and Romanian theology. He hasa keen interest in contemporary culture and therelationship between theology, modern art and ourchanging culture.Peter MeadAssociate Research FellowBA (UWE Bristol) MDivMA (Multnomah BiblicalSeminary) DMin (Gordon-Conwell Theology Seminary)Peter serves as an International Minister withOperation Mobilisation and as a mentor in the CorDeo mentored training programme. He is also oneof the Langham Preaching trainers. These rolesallow him to teach in Bible colleges, conferenceand mission events around the world. He is veryinvolved in the ministry of the local church.Peter is interested in supervising MTh researchstudents in homiletics. He is especially interestedin expository approaches to preaching, the role ofpreaching in spiritual formation, the interaction ofpreaching with hermeneutics and preaching thebiblical genres. Interests also include cross-culturalhomiletics, contemporary preaching, creativepreaching, theology of preaching and studies ofpreaching in the Bible (especially Hebrews assermon, and the speeches in Acts, as well as thepreaching of the OT prophets and Jesus).Steve MotyerTheology & CounsellingCourse Leader and Lecturerin New Testament andHermeneuticsMA (Cantab) MLitt (Bristol)PhD (London)Steve studied at Cambridge, Bristol, London andTubingen Universities and has written scholarlybooks on Romans 9-11, and the ‘Jews’ in John’sGospel. Recently his lifelong interest in hermeneuticshas extended into looking at the relationshipbetween psychology and theology, and he is trainingas a psychotherapist in connection with leading theTheology & Counselling programme at the School.Steve has a wide range of research interests,including John’s Gospel (both literature andtheology), Paul, Hebrews and Revelation in theNew Testament area, as well as Hermeneuticsand the interface between Christian theology andanthropology on the one hand, and contemporarypsychology and psychotherapy on the other. Withthis combination, it’s not surprising that he’s alsointerested in the impact of psychology on biblicalinterpretation, and in the ‘psychological’ reading ofbiblical texts!LST5642 - Postgraduate Prospectus revise v8REPRO.indd 20 12/08/2011 12:33