The research of Heythrop staff covers the full range of Philosophy, Theology and Pastoral Studies. Details of individual staff interests are indicated in the publications and research directory. The College has three Research Centres and two Institutes, based in the three Departments. In many cases, the work they do is interdisciplinary, involving Heythrop staff from other departments, also visiting research fellows, and representatives of faith and community groups.

The Pastoral and Social Studies department has particular research strengths in 



• Practical and pastoral theology: contemporary issues, Church and society


• Contemporary ethical issues: moral imagination, business and finance


• Spirituality


• Psychology and sociology of religion: faith and personality, religion in secular society

Institutes

The Heythrop Institute Religion and Society is a centre for critical reflection on contemporary issues and is both a resource and a stimulus for formulating Christian responses to the many complex questions that arise today.

The Religious Life Institute aims to foster a theological vision of Christian religious life through study and research.f.hooton@heythrop.ac.uk

The department has particular research strengths in



• Philosophy of religion


• Philosophy of mind and psychology, esp. agency, imagination, intentionality, perception, psychoanalysis, rationality


• Aesthetics, esp. fiction, imagination


• Metaphysics, esp. metaphysics of mind, natural kinds, necessity



Further research interests include the history of philosophy, esp. esp. ancient Greek philosophy and 19th-century German philosophy, political philosophy, and ethics, esp. metaethics and moral psychology.

Centre

The Centre for Philosophy of Religion aims to re-establish the links between religion as a set of theoretical claims and its moral, psychological and spiritual aspects, and by exploring how it is related to contemporary secular and scientific thought.

The philosophy department is also a founding member, and represented on the management committee, of the Institute of Philosophy, which is part of the University of London’s School of Advanced Study.

The Theology department has particular research strengths in



• Interreligious dialogue and comparative theology


• Christianity, esp. Middle East


• Church history, esp. early Church, modern Church in Ireland


• Systematic theology: Catholic theology, creation, political theology


• Biblical studies, esp. gender, Paul, Mark

Centres

The Centre for Christianity and Interreligious Dialogue provides a forum for the study and practice of the encounter between Christianity and the other major religious traditions.

The Centre for Eastern Christianity seeks to create a significant scholarly opening in Eastern Christian Studies.

Information for current staff and students is available on the College Intranet, Helios.