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Christopher Southgate - poet, editor and theologian |
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Chris Southgate is based on the edge of Dartmoor, Devon, England.
He works at the University of Exeter as a Research Fellow in Theology.
He is also Dean of Studies of the South-West Ministry Training Course. |
| Chris has been publishing his poetry since 1985. He is the author of five collections of poetry, including a verse biography of T.S. Eliot - now being worked up as the multi-medie production 'TS Eliot and the Women'. His most recent book is Easing the Gravity Field: poems of science and love (Shoestring Press, 2006). To see more details, and some recent poems, click here. | |
| The poem 'In my Black Hat' was commended in the 2008 National Poetry Competition. |
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| THEOLOGY |
Chris has taught for the Dept of Theology at the University of Exeter since 1993. His current teaching includes 'The Human Animal', 'Evolution, God and Gaia', and 'God and the Physicists'.His recent book The Groaning of Creation: God, Evolution and the Problem of Evil (Westminster John Knox Press, 2008) has been described as 'quite excellent' (Church Times) |
| STARS PROJECT |
Chris and his colleague Andrew Robinson have won three rounds of funding for their project 'Information and the Origin of Life' from the Science and Transcendence Advanced Research Series. For more details click here. |
| USES OF THE BIBLE IN ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS |
Chris and his colleagues David Horrell and Cherryl Hunt are completing a book entitled Paul and Ecology: Re-rereading the Apostle in an era of Environmental Crisis. This project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. | | |
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