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“What a tale we have been in”: Emplotment and the Exemplar Characters in The Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter Series (2023)
Journal Article

Linda Zagzebski's theory of moral exemplarity emphasizes the importance of admiration in developing ethical behavior. This essay argues that admiration involves wonder and distance and is best evoked by mixed or flawed characters; it demonstrates thi... Read More about “What a tale we have been in”: Emplotment and the Exemplar Characters in The Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter Series.

Richard Wagner (2023)
Book Chapter

The article considers what Richard Wagner contributed to the understanding of suffering and the problem of evil in the ten stage works of his 'canon' (The Flying Dutchman to Parsifal).

God Spatially Above and Spatially Extended: The Rationality of Ibn Taymiyya's Refutation of Far al-Dīn al-Rāzī's Ašarī Incorporealism (2022)
Journal Article

Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) wrote his tome Bayān talbīs al-ǧahmiyya to refute Ašarī kalām theologian Far al-Dīn al-Rāzī's (d. 606/1210) argument in Tasīs al-taqdīs that God is not corporeal, located, or spatially extended. Bayān talbīs al-ǧahmiyya is... Read More about God Spatially Above and Spatially Extended: The Rationality of Ibn Taymiyya's Refutation of Far al-Dīn al-Rāzī's Ašarī Incorporealism.

Economy of Grace and the Infinite Circle: A Theological Reception of the Social Evolutionary Origins of Gratitude (2022)
Journal Article

This article considers the social evolutionary research on gratitude and reciprocity and focuses on two mechanisms, upstream reciprocity and increased gratitude to strangers, that have strong consonance with various theological accounts of gift-givin... Read More about Economy of Grace and the Infinite Circle: A Theological Reception of the Social Evolutionary Origins of Gratitude.

Religion and Worldviews: The Way Forward? Considerations from the study of religion, non-religion and classroom practice (2021)
Journal Article

This article builds on Worldview-A Multidisciplinary Report (Benoit, Hutchings and Shillitoe, 2020), a publication commissioned by the RE Council of England and Wales to outline the academic history of the study of worldviews. We focus on three parti... Read More about Religion and Worldviews: The Way Forward? Considerations from the study of religion, non-religion and classroom practice.

Rethinking the Didache’s evidence for eucharistic practices in the light of the diversity of practice witnessed in Luke 22:17-20 (2021)
Book Chapter

If our paradigm of the early churches is one of variety in practice preceding uniform ‘accepted’ forms, then we need to look again at many instances where early evidence for practice was by-passed as aberrant or sectarian. The sequence of eucharistic... Read More about Rethinking the Didache’s evidence for eucharistic practices in the light of the diversity of practice witnessed in Luke 22:17-20.

“There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures (2021)
Journal Article

The theory of universal emotions suggests that certain emotions such as fear, anger, disgust, sadness, surprise and happiness can be encountered cross-culturally. These emotions are expressed using specific facial movements that enable human communic... Read More about “There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures.