Celebrating Theology Faculty from the University of Nottingham: Simon Oliver

Dear Friends and Family,

I’ve been at the University of Nottingham for nearly two years now and have gotten to know many members of our faculty fairly well. That being the case, I thought I would take some time to do posts on some of our faculty. These first posts I intend to do will be on faculty I think to be stellar, but relatively unknown (or at least not widely known).

The first member of our faculty I wish to highlight is Dr Simon Oliver, Head of Department for Theology and Religious Studies here at Nottingham. Simon works in systematic and philosophic theology. Simon is also a priest in the Anglican Church, serving as  honorary Canon Theologian at the minster in Southwell and is an associate priest at a local parish. Simon also happens to be one of my supervisors. He is currently working on a book dealing with creation and teleology that meshes well with my own project on deification. You can read more about Simon’s interests here.

Bibliography

• OLIVER, SIMON, KILBY, KAREN and O’LOUGHLIN, TOM, eds., 2012. Faithful Reading: New Essays in Theology in Honour of Fergus Kerr London: T&T Clark.
• OLIVER, SIMON, 2012. The Parallel Journey of Faith and Reason: Another Look via Aquinas’s ‘De Veritate’. In:Faithful Reading: New Essays in Theology in Honour of Fergus Kerr London: T&T Clark. 113-130
• OLIVER, SIMON, 2012. Representing Evil in ‘Schindler’s List’ and ‘Life is Beautiful’. In: SELLARS, JEFF, ed., Light Shining in a Dark Place: Discovering Theology through Film Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications.
• OLIVER, SIMON, 2011. Actuality in Theology and Philosophy. In: MURPHY, FRANCESCA ARAN and BRITTAIN, CHRISTOPHER CRAIG, eds., Theology, University, Humanities: Initium Sapientiae Timor Domini Eugene, OR: Cascade Books. 91-111
• OLIVER, S., 2010. Trinity, Motion and Creation Ex Nihilo. In: COGLIATI, C., SOSKICE, J. and STOEGER, W., eds.,Creation and the God of Abraham Cambridge University Press. 133-151
• OLIVER, SIMON and MILBANK, JOHN, eds., 2009. The Radical Orthodoxy Reader Routledge.
• OLIVER, SIMON, 2009. Wisdom in Theology and Philosophy. In: MCGEE, M. and CORNWELL, J., eds., Philosophers Amongst the Gods Continuum.
• OLIVER, SIMON, 2009. Christ, Descent and Participation. In: PABST, ADRIAN and PADDISON, ANGUS, eds., The Pope and Jesus of Nazareth: Christ, Scripture and the Church London: SCM.
• OLIVER, SIMON, 2008. Love Makes the World Go ‘Round: Motion and Trinity. In: SCHINDLER, D.L., ed., Love Alone in Credible: Hans Urs von Balthasar as Interpreter of the Catholic Tradition Eerdmans.
• OLIVER, SIMON, 2008. What can Theology offer Religious Studies?. In: OLIVER, S. and WARRIER, M., eds., Theology and Religious Studies: An Exploration of Disciplinary Boundaries T&T Clark.
• OLIVER, SIMON, 2008. The Holy Trinity and the Liturgical Subject. In: LEACHMAN, J., ed., The Liturgical Subject: Subject, Subjectivity, and the Human Person in Contemporary Liturgical Discussion and Critique SCM.
• OLIVER, SIMON and WARRIER, MAYA, eds., 2008. Theology and Religious Studies: An Exploration of Disciplinary Boundaries T&T Clark.
• OLIVER, SIMON, 2005. The Sweet Delight of Virtue and Grace in Aquinas’s Ethics International Journal of Systematic Theology. 7(1), 52-71
• OLIVER, SIMON, 2005. Philosophy, God and Motion Routledge.
• OLIVER, SIMON, 2005. Robert Grosseteste on Light, Truth and Experimentum Vivarium. 43(1), 109-138
• OLIVER, SIMON, 2001. Motion according to Aquinas and Newton Modern Theology. 17(2), 163-199
• OLIVER, SIMON, 1999. The Eucharist before Nature and Culture Modern Theology. 15(3), 331-353

Videos for the University of Nottingham

Why Study an MA in Systematic and Philosophic Theology at Nottingham

Why Study Plato

Why Study Aristotle

Why Study Negative Theology

Why Study Thomas Aquinas

Why Study Systematic Theology

Why Study the Theology of Creation

Philosophy in Theology with Karen Kilby and Simon Oliver

Sacramentality with Tom O’Loughlin and Simon Oliver

The Big Society with John Milbank and Simon Oliver

I hope you enjoyed these videos and will take the time to look up some of Simon’s work. He is an excellent and gracious theologian and it is my honour to work with him.

Yours,

David