George Pattison is a leading British

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 systematic theologian

Systematic theology

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 and Anglican priest.

Pattison is currently the Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford

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 and a canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford

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In 2004, Pattison succeeded John Webster

John Bainbridge Webster

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 who took up the professorship in systematic theology at the University of Aberdeen

University of Aberdeen

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. Before moving to Oxford, Pattison was an associate professor at the University of Århus (2002–03) and previously the Dean of King's College, Cambridge

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 (1991–2001).

Pattison's works range from historical, theological and philosophical engagement with the works of Hans L. Martenson, Søren Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard

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, Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger

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 and Fyodor Dostoyevsky to theological studies of the aesthetics of film and the visual arts. His latest work has engaged with philosophical notions of ontology, entering into the discussion about whether it is meaningful or helpful to speak of God in terms of "being".

Major works

• Art, Modernity and Faith (1991)
• Kierkegaard: the Aesthetic and the Religious (1992)
• Agnosis: Theology in the Void (1996)
• Kierkegaard and the Crisis of Faith (1997)
• The End of Theology and the Task of Thinking about God (1998)
• Anxious Angels (1999)
• The Later Heidegger (2000)
• A Short Course in the Philosophy of Religion (2001)
• Dostoevsky and the Christian Tradition (ed. with D.Thompson, 1991)
• A Short Course in Christian Doctrine (2005)
• The Philosophy of Kierkegaard (2005)
• Thinking about God in an Age of Technology (2006)
• Crucifixions and Resurrections of the Image: Reflections on Art and Modernity (SCM, 2009)
• God and Being (OUP, 2011)