Members Back to 'Birmingham Centre for Philosophy of Religion' Directors David Cheetham - Professor of Philosophical Theology Yujin Nagasawa - H. G. Wood Professor of the Philsophy of Religion Members Bakinaz Abdalla - Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Jewish Philosophy of Religion Jonathan Duquette - Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Hindu Philosophy of Religion Nikk Effingham - Reader in Philosophy Martin Pickup - Senior Lecturer in Philosophy Heather Widdows - John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics Mohammad Saleh Zarepour - Postdoctoral Resarch Fellow in Islamic Philosophy of Religion William Paton Visiting Fellows Professor Chad Meister, Bethel College, USA (2015) Professor Dilipkumar Mohanta, University of Calcutta (2015) Dr Nick Trakakis, Australian Catholic University, Australia (2014) Dr Shalini Sinha, SOAS, University of London (2013) Dr Elena Kalmykova, University of Uppsala, Sweden (2013) Professor Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky, USA (2013) Visiting scholars Professor John Bishop, University of Auckland, New Zealand (2012) Professor Zhicheng Wang, Zhejiang University, China (2011) Doctoral researchers Current Abbas Ahsan (Islamic analytic theology) Han Jen Chang (The evidential problem of evil and skeptical theism) Brent Constantine (the modal cosmological argument) John Edge (God's knowledge of the human condition) Randy Everist (Divine causation) Luke Fox (Kierkegaard and religious diversity) Michael Fox (Aesthetics and theology) Simo Frestadius (Theological epistemology) Gary Hall (Thomas Merton) Soufiane Hamri (Ontological and cosmological reasoning) Luke Henderson (Free will and heaven) Kristi Mair (Religious epistemology) Chase Montague (An apophatic approach to the problem of evil) Marshall Naylor (Maximal God) Dre Rusavuk (Rationality, freedom and divine goodness) Shivanand Sharma (Bhedābheda Vedānta and the problem of consciousness) Stephen Torr (Evil and suffering) Kevin Vandergriff (The intrinsic probability of theism and naturalism) Ben Whittington (Free will and nonreductive physicalism) Wai Yip Wong (Religious pluralism)