ThM Supervisor Areas of Interest
Updated Fall 2025
While all topics related to theology will be considered for ThM theses, Regent’s current faculty are particularly interested and equipped to supervise in the following areas.
Supervisors by Concentration
The following guide lists faculty who teach in particular areas. You are likely to be supervised by a professor who teaches in your area of concentration.
- Applied Theology: Ross Hastings
- Christianity & the Arts: Jonathan Anderson
- Doctrinal Theology: Jens Zimmermann, Ross Hastings, David S. Robinson
- History of Christianity: Cindy Aalders, Prabo Minhindukulasuriya, Bruce Hindmarsh
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Craig Gay, Jens Zimmermann, David S. Robinson
- Marketplace Theology: David S. Robinson
- New Testament: George Guthrie, Mariam Kamell Kovalishyn, Paul Spilsbury
- Old Testament: Matthew Lynch, Brittany N. Melton
- Spiritual Theology: Bruce Hindmarsh, Cindy Aalders, Diane Stinton
- World Christianity: Diane Stinton, Grace Hui Liang, Prabo Mihindukulasuriya
Faculty Supervisors
Cindy Aalders
Associate Professor of the History of Christianity
DPhil in History, University of Oxford
- 17th- to 19th-century religious history
- Women’s and gender history
- Letters and diaries
- Children and religion
- Friendship
Jonathan Anderson
Eugene and Jan Peterson Associate Professor of Theology and the Arts
PhD in Theology & Religious Studies, King’s College London
MFA in Studio Art, California State University Long Beach
- Theology and the arts
- Visual theology
- Theological aesthetics
Craig Gay
Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
PhD in Religious Studies, Boston University
- Christian faith and practice in the (post)modern context
- Secularization theory
- Christianity and economics
- Christianity and modern technology
- Christianity and politics
George Guthrie
Marshall Sheppard Professor of Biblical Studies
PhD in New Testament, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
- Use of the Old Testament in the New Testament
- Hebrews
- Philippians
- 2 Corinthians
Ross Hastings
Sangwoo Youtong Chee Professor of Theology
PhD in Theology, University of St Andrews
PhD in Organometallic Chemistry, Queen’s University, Kingston
- The Trinity
- Christology, pneumatology, soteriology, and eschatology
- Missional and pastoral theology
- Theological and pastoral ethics
- Studies in Karl Barth & Jonathan Edwards
Bruce Hindmarsh
James M. Houston Professor of Spiritual Theology; Professor of the History of Christianity
DPhil in Theology, University of Oxford
- Most periods in church history and the history of Christian spirituality
- Spiritual biography
- Spiritual theology, including interdisciplinary research
- History of evangelicalism (with special interest in the long 18th century)
Mariam Kamell Kovalishyn
Associate Professor of New Testament
PhD in New Testament, University of St Andrews
- Catholic Epistles
- Pauline Epistles
- New Testament theology
- Early Judaism and Early Jewish literature
- Greco-Roman history and literature
Grace Hui Liang
Associate Professor of Chinese Christian Studies
PhD, Zhejiang University
- Intercultural biblical interpretation
- Chinese Christian studies
- Chinese Bible translation
- Asian biblical hermeneutics
- Comparative religious studies
Matthew Lynch
Bruce K. Waltke Associate Professor of Old Testament
PhD in Hebrew Bible, Emory University
- Books of Isaiah & Joshua
- Violence in the Old Testament
- Divine Glory/the Spirit in the Old Testament
- Theological dilemmas in Scripture
Brittany N. Melton
Associate Professor of Old Testament
PhD in Old Testament, University of Cambridge
- Divine presence & absence
- Theology of hospitality
- The Megilloth (Ruth, Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, and Esther)
- Biblical Wisdom Literature
Prabo Mihindukulasuriya
Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity
PhD, University of Colombo
- History of Christianity
- Missiology/intercultural studies
- Theology of culture
David S. Robinson
Paul Stevens Assistant Professor of Marketplace Theology and Leadership
PhD in Systematic Theology, University of Edinburgh
- Theology of work
- Providence
- Sustainability
- Protestant theologians in the Lutheran tradition (Martin Luther, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Wolfhart Pannenberg, etc.)
Paul Spilsbury
President; Professor of New Testament
PhD in New Testament, University of Cambridge
- Josephus
- Pauline theology
- Book of Revelation
Diane Stinton
Associate Professor of Mission Studies and World Christianity
PhD in World Christianity, University of Edinburgh
- Majority World theologies, particularly Christology
- Majority World expressions of Christian spirituality
- African Christianity
Jens Zimmermann
J.I. Packer Professor of Theology
PhD in Philosophy, Johannes Gutenberg University
PhD in Comparative Literature, University of British Columbia
- Systematic and historical theology, and in particular philosophical theology
- Interpretation of Scripture
- Patristic theology (especially the Cappadocian fathers)
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Christianity and culture, including Christian political thought and critiques of technology
- Theological anthropology
- Modern theologians such as Emil Brunner, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Josef Ratzinger, and Hans-Urs von Balthasar