Professor Emeritus Paul Badham BA,M.A.,PhD

Contact Details

School of Theology, Religious Studies and Islamic Studies
E-mail: pblbadham@hotmail.com

Campus

Lampeter Campus

Job Title

Professor Emeritus of Theology and Religious Studies since 2009

Role in the University

Professor Emeritus of Theology and Religious Studies since 2009

Background

Professor Paul Badham studied Theology, Religious Studies and the Philosophy of Religion at the Universities of Oxford Cambridge and Birmingham.He trained for the Anglican Ministry at Westcott House and worked as a curate in Birmingham for five years before his appointment at Lampeter in 1973. He became a Professor in 1991 and has served as Head of Department, Head of School and Dean of the Faculty of Theology. He was Director of the Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre from 2002-10 .

He is a Vice President of Modern Church, a Patron of Dignity in Dying and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was formerly Editor of Modern Believing and a Senior Research Fellow of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion at Oxford University

Publications

Christian Beliefs about Life after Death

Immortality or Extinction?

Death and Immortality in the Religions of the World

The Contribution of Religion to the Conflict in Northern Ireland

Perspectives on Death and Dying

Religion, State and Society in Modern Britain

A John Hick Reader

Near-Death Experiences, beliefs about life after death and the Tibetan Book of the Dead John Hick's Global Theology

Ethics on the Frontiers of Human Existence

The Christian Understanding of God and Christ in relation to True Pure Land Buddhism

Facing Death,

The Contemporary Challenge of Modernist Theology

Religious Experience in Contemporary China

A Christianity that can be believed in

Liberal Anglicanism

Is there a Christian Case for Assisted Dying?

Verdict on Jesus