Dr Jacqui Stewart                                                                                  Email j.stewart.exeter@googlemail.com

 

Currently: Honorary Research Fellow, Dept of Theology, University of Exeter.

Also Honorary Lecturer in Theology, School of Theology, University of Leeds.

 

Research Interests focus on some of the consequences of the limitations of human knowledge. Why must we be careful about claims to knowledge, whether in science, philosophy, religion or politics? What does our growing involvement with technology contribute to this? In our present context, how can participants in the Christian tradition be faithful to it without falsifying it? Is Christianity as much about doing as about knowing ? How do critics of modernity and postmodern authors help and hinder theology in its attempt to speak of God in the world?

            The authors I am particularly concerned with include the philosophers Gadamer and Ricoeur, the social theorists Z Baumann and S Zizek, and among the theologians, Barth, Ellul, and Schillebeeckx.

 

Background 

I've had an unusual two subject career, starting with a BSc in genetics at Edinburgh,1974. I actually managed to study a theology course in the third year of this degree. I also read some sociology and philosophy of science. Then I started a PhD in genetics, awarded in1979. I was appointed to a Lectureship in the Dept of Genetics, University of Leeds, in 1977 and after realising that I wanted to change subjects, started a PhD in theology and moved to a lectureship in the Dept of Theology and Religious Studies in1992. My PhD in Theology was awarded in 1998. I was director of the interdisciplinary Centre for Science and Religion, University of Leeds, from1997 until it was laid down in 2001.  Illness with systemic lupus lead to my retirement from a Senior Lectureship in the School of Theology and Religious Studies in Leeds in 2005. I moved to Exeter in 2007 and have an Honorary Research Fellowship in the Department of Theology, University of Exeter.

 

 

Publications in Theology

 

Stewart, J.A., (2008) 'Embryo, Person and Pregnancy; A New Look at the Beginning of Life' pp 89-96 in Clague, J, Hoose, B & Mannion, G (eds) Moral theology for the Twenty-First Century: Essays in Celebration of Kevin Kelly,  (T&T Clark: London) 2008

 

Stewart, J.A., (2006) 'DNA, data and ethics' .  Occasional paper for Heythrop College Institute for Religion, Ethics and Public Life.

 Placed on website September 2006.  (Also archived on theYorkshire Universities' White Rose website. )

 

Stewart, J. A., (2003) 'Theology, Conversation and Community: Baumann's critique of community' in  Haers, J. & De Mey, P. (eds.) Theology and Conversation: Towards a Relational Theology, (Leuven: Peeters) pp519-530.

 

Stewart, J.A, 2003, 'Re-ordering Means and Ends: Ellul and the New Genetics' in   Szerszynski, B., Deane Drummond, C. , Grove White, R ( eds) Re-ordering of Nature: Theology and the New Genetics , T&TClark: Edinburgh.

 

Stewart, J A , 2000, Reconstructing Science and Theology in Postmodernity: Pannenberg, Ethics and the Human Sciences, Ashgate: Aldershot.

 

Also in 2000, entry on 'Jacques Ellul' in The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought

 

Stewart J A , 2000 'Does Pannenberg's View of Culture and Social Theory have Ethical Implications?' Studies in Christian Ethics, Volume 13 Number 2 :32 - 48.

 

STEWART, J.A. 1999. ‘Technology and Christianity’ in  Southgate, C., Stewart, J.A. et al (eds.). God, Humanity and the Cosmos . T&T Clark, Edinburgh :

 

STEWART, J.A. 1996. 'Some Problems with the Theological Appropriation

of Biology by W Pannenberg' in Gregersen, N.H. et al (eds.). Studies in Science and Theology, Vol 4, The Concept of Nature in Science and Theology, Part II. Geneva: Labor et Fides, S.A.: 118-127.

 

STEWART, J, 1996, 'The family in a technological society', in The Christian Family - a concept in crisis, ed. PYPER, HS, Canterbury Press, Norwich UK: 85 - 101.

(ISBN 1 -85311-124-4)

 

STEWART, J, 1994, 'Friends and Theology', The Friends' Quarterly, 28, 112 - 118

 

STEWART, J, 1993, 'The contribution of environmental issues to

The teaching of RE - a response from the Christian tradition', in The contribution of religious education to teaching about the environment, 11-19, eds. Doble, P, and Hayward, M, York Religious Education Centre, University College of Ripon and York St John, York.

(Translated in  Religionsuntericht und Oekologie: der Beitrag der Weltreligion zur Umwelterziehung in der Schule 1993 ed Schreiner, P, Comenius Institut, Munster

ISBN 3 - 924804 -53 -2)

 

Also two possibly relevant articles as a geneticist (published in genetics as J. Bird Stewart) - :

 

BIRD STEWART, J, 1990, 'Surrogacy - the issues', University of Leeds Review ,

32, 168 - 173.

 

BIRD STEWART, J, 1987, 'Genetics in relation to biology', School Science

Review, June ,645 -653.