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.

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 M. 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