My research focusses on the intersections of theology and religion with science, nature, and the environment. Specifically, I am interested in religious approaches to the contemporary ecological crisis, and much of my work is in the field of Christian ecotheology. My recent research draws on trauma theology to explore how the category of trauma might be applied to issues of nonhuman suffering in the context of mass extinction and catastrophic climate change. In addition, I am currently working on a second project about the interaction between religious views of the long-term future and geological understandings of deep time. I am a Research Affiliate at the Laudato Si’ Research Institute, an honorary Research Fellow at the William Temple Foundation, and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Before joining Regent’s Park College, I taught at St Anne’s College Oxford, the University of Roehampton, and Ripon College Cuddesdon. Most recently, I was a Junior Research Fellow in Religion and the Frontier Challenges at Pembroke College Oxford. I hold doctorates in Theology and Earth Sciences, both from the University of Oxford.
My role in College
I am Tutorial Fellow in Theology, Director of the Centre for Baptist Studies, and Director of the Visiting Student Programme.
I teach undergraduate papers in Ecotheology, Science & Religion, and Christian Systematic Theology, as well as supervising student dissertations in these areas.
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Selected Publications
Books
- Middleton, Timothy A., Witnessing a Wounded World: A Theology of Ecological Trauma, under contract at Fordham University Press.
Articles and Research Papers
- Middleton, Timothy. A., ‘Ecotheology, Trauma, and Grief’ in Eaton, Matthew and Harvie, Tim (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Ecotheology (Routledge, 2024), in prep.
- Middleton, Timothy. A., ‘Trauma and the Ecological Implications of the Crucifixion Earthquake’ in Hill, Preston (ed.) Christology and Trauma (Fortress, 2023), in press.
- Middleton, Timothy. A., ‘Christology and the Temporal Trauma of the Anthropocene’ in Krebs, Andreas (ed.) Rethinking Theology in the Anthropocene (WBG, 2023), in press.
- Middleton, Timothy A., ‘Science, Religion, and Deep Time’, Reviews in Science, Religion and Theology (2022), 5-15.
- Middleton, Timothy. A. & Natasha Chawla, ‘Introduction: The Humanities in Deep Time’, Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology (2022), 173-177.
- Middleton, Timothy. A., ‘Christic Witnessing: A Practical Response to Ecological Trauma’, Practical Theology (2022), 420-431.
- Middleton, Timothy A., ‘Giving Birth to the Impossible: Theology and Deconstruction in Johannes Climacus’s Philosophical Fragments’, International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, 82/2 (2021), 116-135.
- Middleton, Timothy. A., ‘Selling Our Souls: Science, Sin and Lament’ in Malcolm, Hannah (ed.) Words for a Dying World (SCM Press, 2020), pp. 88-93.
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