Professor Jeremy Begbie

Jeremy Begbie specialises in the interface between theology and the arts, and his particular research interest is the interplay between music and theology. The inaugural holder of the Thomas A. Langford Research Professorship in Theology at Duke Divinity School, North Carolina, Professor Begbie is founding Director of Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts, and an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Music. He is Senior Member at Wolfson College Cambridge.

Previously he has been Associate Principal at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, and Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews where he directed the research project, Theology Through the Arts at the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts.

Educated largely in Scotland, before entering the theological world he read music and philosophy at Edinburgh University, studying compo­sition with Kenneth Leighton and piano with Colin Kingsley. Holding piano performing and teaching qualifications, he is also an oboist, and was recently made a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music.

He is author of a number of books, including Voicing Creation’s Praise: Towards a Theology of the Arts (T & T Clark); Theology, Music and Time (CUP), and Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music (Baker/SPCK), Music, Modernity, and God (OUP). His most recent book is Redeeming Transcendence (Eerdmans).