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Dr Dafydd Daniel

Lecturer in Divinity

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2876

Email

demd1@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Biography

Dr Dafydd Mills Daniel is Lecturer in Divinity, School of Divinity, University of 58³Ô¹Ï. Before joining 58³Ô¹Ï in September 2022, Dafydd was McDonald Lecturer in Christian Ethics at the University of Oxford, where he was also Director of Applied Theology at Wycliffe Hall and the Faculty of Theology and Religion, as well as Director of Studies in Theology, Jesus College. He read for a BA in Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Cambridge and completed a Masters in Philosophical Theology and Philosophy of Religion at Yale University Divinity School, where he was a Marquand Scholar. After completing his DPhil in Theology at the University of Oxford, Dafydd undertook a Certificate in the Principles and Practice of Assessment, University of Cambridge and a PGCE in Religious Education, University of Oxford.

Dafydd is currently writing the book, Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology: A Historical Introduction from Plato to Plantinga (Routledge), and editing the journal special issue The Church and the British Moralists for History of European Ideas. His newest book is (Routledge); his other books include:ÌýÌý(Palgrave Macmillan) and (SCM Press).

Project lead onÌý, funded by a University of 58³Ô¹Ï STAIRS award, Dafydd previously led the project after receiving a grant from the University’s Scotland's Future Series.

Dafydd is a BBC and AHRC New Generation Thinker. His BBC radio documentaries include: ; ; ; and, (which was featured in the Penguin Audio Book ).

Dafydd has contributed regularly to BBC Radio 4’s Free Thinking, on a range of topics, including: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; (where Dafydd’s contribution, on the 18^th century ‘parson-naturalist’, Gilbert White, was featured as choice in the Radio Times).

He has appeared on National Geographic’s (to discuss the practice of sin-eating); on BBC Radio 4’s (episodes and ); at the (to discuss Oscar Wilde’s Salome); at the (to discuss models for landownership); and on (to discuss the Council of Nicaea). As an Ashmolean Public Engagement Research Associate, Dafydd recorded the Talking Emotions podcast .

An occasional writer of fiction, Dafydd was a , and one of six authors .

Teaching

DI1001 – God and the World: Introducing Theology

DI1014 – The Good Life: Christian Ethics and Human Flourishing

DI2010Ìý– Philosophical Theology

DI3720 – Religious Practices in Socio-Political Context

DI4634 – God and Morality: Faith and Philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment

DI4835 – Christianity and Politics: Patriotism, Republicanism, and Cosmopolitanism

DI5539 – The Good Life and the Good Death: Theological and Practical Ethics

DI5914 – The Good Life: Biblical Ethics and Human Flourishing

Research areas

Theological and philosophical ethics; historical theology and the history of Western philosophy; philosophical theology; intellectual and church history (with a particular focus on 'the Enlightenment' era)

PhD supervision

• SpencerÌýDavidson
• BenÌýFiddian
• JeahongÌýOh

Selected publications

• Open access
  Mills Daniel, D., 8 May 2025, In: Journal of Scottish Thought. 14, 1, p. 51-77 27 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Mills Daniel, D., Apr 2022, In: Theologische Literaturzeitung. 147, 4, p. 351-352

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• Open access
  Mills Daniel, D., Apr 2022, In: Theologische Literaturzeitung. 147, 4, p. 349-351

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• Daniel, D. M., Nov 2020, In: Religions. 11, 11

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Mills Daniel, D., 2020, Palgrave Macmillan. 344 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Daniel, D. M., Jul 2020, In: The Journal of Religion. 100, 3, p. 327-360

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Daniel, D., Mar 2019, In: Inference. 4, 3

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article

• Mills Daniel, D., Apr 2016, In: Dialogue: A Journal of Religion and Philosophy. 46

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Mills Daniel, D., Nov 2016, In: Dialogue: A Journal of Religion and Philosophy. 47

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Mills Daniel, D., Nov 2015, In: Dialogue: A Journal of Religion and Philosophy. 45

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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