The Revd Prof Jeremy Begbie

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The Revd Prof Jeremy Begbie

Ridley Associate

Jeremy Begbie is the inaugural holder of the Thomas A. Langford Distinguished Professorship in Theology at Duke Divinity School, North Carolina, and founding Director of Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts.

He teaches systematic theology, and he specialises in the interface between theology and the arts. His particular research interest is the interplay between music and theology.

He is also Senior Member at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Music at the University of 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.

He is author of a number of books, including Redeeming Transcendence in the Arts: Bearing Witness to the Triune God (Eerdmans), Theology, Music and Time (CUP), Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music (Baker), and Music, Modernity, and God (OUP). A professionally trained and active musician, Begbie has taught widely in the UK and North America, and delivered performance-lectures across the world, from Israel to Australia and Hong Kong.