Dr
Russell Re Manning
- Reader and Senior Lecturer: Philosophy and Ethics (Western Philosophy)
- Email: r.remanning@bathspa.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)1225 875493
- School: School of Writing, Publishing and the Humanities
- Campus: Newton Park
Personal statement
Russell Re Manning is a philosopher of religion with wide-ranging research and teaching interests in modern and contemporary philosophy and theology.
Dr Re Manning's research engages four related areas: the intellectual history of natural theology; theologies of culture; philosophy of religion; and topics in science and religion. Current projects include work on contemporary revivals of natural theology, a study of the Boyle Lectures (1692-1732), an analysis of the use of the concept of emergence in Christian theology, and development of a critical edition of the works of Paul Tillich in English.
Dr Re Manning is Visiting Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge. He is co-convenor of the revived series of Boyle Lectures in Science and Religion, held annually at the church of St Mary-le-Bow. He was co-chair of the American Academy of Religion Group 'Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture' and is past-President of the North American Paul Tillich Society.
In November 2011, Dr Re Manning presented The Paul Tillich Lecture at Harvard University, with the title: 'The Religious Meaning of Culture: Paul Tillich and Beyond.'
In June 2012 Dr Re Manning was awarded a grant from the Uses and Abuses of Biology Grant Programme to fund a two-year investigation ('Emergence: From Biology to Theology') into the uses (and abuses) of the concept of emergence in contemporary theology.
Recent publications include The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology (OUP, 2014), Science and Religion in the Twenty-First Century (SCM, 2014) and The Cambridge Companion to Paul Tillich (CUP, 2009).
He welcomes enquiries from potential PhD students in any area of Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology, in particular projects on Natural Theology, Paul Tillich, and the idea of Utopia.
Academic qualifications
- MA University of Oxford
- MPhil University of Cambridge
- PhD University of Cambridge
Professional memberships
- American Academy of Religion
- International Society for Science and Religion
- British Society for Philosophy of Religion
- European Society for Philosophy of Religion
- Society for Systematic Theology
- North American Paul Tillich Society
- Deutsche Paul-Tillich-Gesellschaft
- Association Paul Tillich d'Expression Francaise
Research and academic outputs
Nietzsche’s gods: critical and constructive perspectives
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Re Manning, R and Santini, C, eds. (2022) Nietzsche’s gods: critical and constructive perspectives. de Gruyter, Berlin. ISBN 9783110610260
Mutual enrichment between psychology and theology
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Re Manning, R, ed. (2020) Mutual enrichment between psychology and theology. Routledge, Abingdon. ISBN 9781472415899
Differences in identity in philosophy and religion: a cross-cultural approach
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Azadpour, L, Flavel, S and Re Manning, R, eds. (2020) Differences in identity in philosophy and religion: a cross-cultural approach. Bloomsbury, London. ISBN 9781350076501
Returning to Tillich: theology and legacy in transition
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Re Manning, R and Shearn, S.A, eds. (2017) Returning to Tillich: theology and legacy in transition. Tillich research, 13 . de Gruyter, Berlin. ISBN 9783110533606
The Edinburgh critical history of nineteenth-century Christian theology series
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Re Manning, R and Greggs, T, eds. (2017) The Edinburgh critical history of nineteenth-century Christian theology series. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
Retrieving the radical Tillich: his legacy and contemporary importance
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Re Manning, R, ed. (2015) Retrieving the radical Tillich: his legacy and contemporary importance. Radical theologies . Palgrave Macmillan, New York. ISBN 9781137380838
Science and religion in the twenty-first century: the Boyle Lectures, 2004-2013
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Re Manning, R and Byrne, M (2013) Science and religion in the twenty-first century: the Boyle Lectures, 2004-2013. SCM Press, London. ISBN 9780334045946
The Oxford handbook of natural theology
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Re Manning, R, ed. (2013) The Oxford handbook of natural theology. Oxford handbooks in religion . Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780199556939
Unconditioned
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Re Manning, R (2023) 'Unconditioned.' In: Flavel, S and Robbiano, C, eds. Key concepts in world philosophies: a toolkit for philosophers. Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 195-202. ISBN 9781350168121
Theological currents
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Re Manning, R (2018) 'Theological currents.' In: Harrison, V.S, ed. The history of evil in the early twentieth century: 1900-1950ce. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 97-110. ISBN 9781138236844
Faith and reason
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Re Manning, R (2017) 'Faith and reason.' In: Rasmussen, J, Wolfe, J and Zachhuber, J, eds. The Oxford handbook of nineteenth-century Christian thought. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 160-176. ISBN 9780198718406
Life, sex, and ambiguity
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Re Manning, R (2017) 'Life, sex, and ambiguity.' In: Dumas, M, Richard, J and Wagoner, B, eds. Les ambiguïtés de la vie selon Paul Tillich. de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 39-50. ISBN 9783110486254
"The incompleteness of the completed": eternal God, eternal life, and the eternal now
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Re Manning, R (2016) '"The incompleteness of the completed": eternal God, eternal life, and the eternal now.' In: Ziegler, P.G, ed. Eternal God, eternal life. Bloomsbury, London, pp. 169-186. ISBN 9780567666833
From order to God
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Re Manning, R (2016) 'From order to God.' In: Cartwright, N and Ward, K, eds. Rethinking order after the laws of nature. Bloomsbury, London, pp. 223-232. ISBN 9781474244060
The shape of British theology in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries
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Re Manning, R (2016) 'The shape of British theology in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.' In: Hébert, M and Reijnen, A.M, eds. Paul Tillich et Karl Barth: accords et antagonismes théologiques. Tillich-Studien (23). LIT Verlag, Munster. ISBN 9783643900470
Unwritten theology: notes towards a natural theology of music
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Re Manning, R (2015) 'Unwritten theology: notes towards a natural theology of music.' In: Stone-Davis, F.J, ed. Music and transcendence. Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 65-74. ISBN 9781472415950
Radical apologetics: Paul Tillich and radical philosophical atheism
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Re Manning, R (2015) 'Radical apologetics: Paul Tillich and radical philosophical atheism.' In: Re Manning, R, ed. Retrieving the radical Tillich: his legacy and contemporary importance. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp. 233-247. ISBN 9781137380838
Introduction: the real Tillich is the radical Tillich
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Re Manning, R (2015) 'Introduction: the real Tillich is the radical Tillich.' In: Re Manning, R, ed. Retrieving the radical Tillich: his legacy and contemporary importance. Radical theologies . Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp. 1-19. ISBN 9781137380838
Natural theology reconsidered (again)
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Re Manning, R (2017) 'Natural theology reconsidered (again).' Theology and Science, 15 (3). pp. 289-301. ISSN 1474-6700
The arts leading theology: the case of Anselm Keiefer
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Re Manning, R (2014) 'The arts leading theology: the case of Anselm Keiefer.' ARTS: The Arts in Religious and Theological Studies, 25 (2).
Belief-ful realism revisited: Paul Tillich’s theology of art and the realist turn
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Re Manning, R (2016) Belief-ful realism revisited: Paul Tillich’s theology of art and the realist turn. In: American Academy of Religion (AAR) Annual Meeting, 10 -22 November 2016, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Absolute faith, correlation, and contemporary continental atheism
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Re Manning, R (2015) Absolute faith, correlation, and contemporary continental atheism. In: Ultimate Concern: Paul Tillich, Buddhism, Confucianism, 12-13 July 2015, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.
Correlating continental atheism
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Re Manning, R (2015) Correlating continental atheism. In: The 10th Annual Meeting of The Comparative & Continental Philosophy Circle, 14-17 May 2015, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Natural theology reconsidered (again)
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Re Manning, R (2015) Natural theology reconsidered (again). In: The Boyle Lecture, 25 February 2015, St Mary-le-Bow, London.
Whither philosophy of religion?
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Re Manning, R (2015) Whither philosophy of religion? In: D Society Public Seminar Series, 20 February 2015, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK. (Unpublished)
Dark reflections: Tillich, sex, and ambiguity
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Re Manning, R (2015) Dark reflections: Tillich, sex, and ambiguity. In: Paul Tillich (1886-1965): Philosophy, Mystery, Love, 26 September 2015, University of Glasgow, UK.