Paul Dafydd Jones

Assistant Professor

E-mail:
Phone: 434-982-2283

Address:
PO Box 400126
Department of Religious Studies
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4126

Research Interests

Christian theology and philosophy of religion in the West. Special interests in Christology, the doctrine of God, and theological method; nineteenth- and twentieth-century Protestant thought (particularly Karl Barth); political, liberationist, and constructive theology.

Education

• Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Oxford, 1995
• Master of Divinity (MDIV), Harvard University, 1999
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Harvard University, 2006

Selected Courses

• Elements of Christian Thought
• Christianity and Protest
• Protestant Theology
• Political Theology
• Christian Views of the Atonement
• The Theology of John Calvin
• The Theology of Friedrich Schleiermacher
• The Theology of Karl Barth
• The Identity of Christ
• Liberal Theology in Europe and North America
• Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion

Publications

• The Humanity of Christ: Christology in Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics. London: T&T Clark, 2008.

• 'Obedience, Trinity, and Election: Thinking with and Beyond the Church Dogmatics', in Trinity and Election, ed. Michael Dempsey (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans) (forthcoming)
• 'Barth and Anselm: God, Christ, and the Atonement', International Journal of Systematic Theology (forthcoming)
• 'The Atonement: God's Love in Action', in New Perspectives for Evangelical Theology: Engaging God, Scripture and the World, ed. Tom Greggs (London: Routledge, 2010) (forthcoming)
• ‘Liberation Theology and "democratic futures" (by way of Karl Barth and Friedrich Schleiermacher)’, Political Theology 10.2 (2009), pp. 262-85
• ‘Karl Barth’ in History of Western Philosophy of Religion, vol. 5, ed. Graham Oppy and Nick Trakakis. Durham, U.K.: Acumen Publishing
• ‘The Heart of the Matter: Karl Barth’s Christological Exegesis’ in Thy Word is Truth: Karl Barth on Scripture, ed. George Hunsinger (forthcoming, volume provisionally entitled)
• ‘Karl Barth on Gethsemane,’ International Journal of Systematic Theology 9:2 (2007), pp. 148–71
• ‘Jesus Christ and the Transformation of English Society: The ‘Subversive Conservatism’ of Frederick Denison Maurice,’ Harvard Theological Review 96:3 (2003), pp. 205-28

• ‘‘The New Measures: A Theological History of Democratic Practice by Ted. A. Smith.’ Review in Practical Matters 1 (2009). Available online: http://www.practicalmattersjournal.org/issue/1/reviews/the-new-measures
• ‘Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University by Thomas Albert Howard.’ Review for Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 75.4 (2007), pp. 1006-09
• ‘Liberal Theology: A Radical Vision by Peter Hodgson.’ Review for Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 76.1 (2008), pp. 213-16
• Job and the Disruption of Identity: Reading Beyond Barth by Susannah Ticciati.’ Review in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 26.3 (2008), pp. 219-22