The Revd Professor Andrew Davison

Andrew is a Fellow in Theology, and Dean of Chapel. His University position is in the Faculty of Divinity, as the Starbridge Associate Professor in Theology and Natural Sciences. His work spans Christian doctrine, natural science (especially biology) and philosophy (being, in particular, a scholar of Thomas Aquinas). Recently, that has taken in biological mutualism, life elsewhere in the universe, and the extended evolutionary synthesis, but also an application of medieval accounts of analogy to help think about what we mean when we attribute human-like capacities to machine learning or artificial intelligence. His most recent book is Participation in God: A Study in Christian Doctrine and Metaphysics (Cambridge, 2019). 

Andrew has been a fellow at Corpus since 2014. Before that, he taught Christian theology at Westcott House in Cambridge and St Stephen’s House in Oxford. Before turning to theology, Andrew studied Chemistry and Biochemistry in Oxford, at Merton College.

As Dean of Chapel, Andrew oversees chapel life (working with the Chaplain, Matthew Bullimore), the college's ancient relationship with parishes around the country as their patron, and two sermon cycles that have been running since the sixteenth century: Mere's Commemoration (at St Bene’t’s Church in Cambridge) and the Parker Sermons (in Norfolk). Andrew has been a priest since 2004, in preparation for which he read theology at Corpus. He served his curacy in Bellingham, in South East London. 

Andrew has served as the Director of Studies for the Tripos in Theology, Religion and Philosophy of Religion at Corpus, a role undertaken this year by Dr Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft. Prospective students should feel free to send him an email.