Brian Brock
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Professor Brian Brock | |
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| Born | Brian Reid Brock Baytown, Texas, US |
| Occupations | Professor, Theologian |
| Title | Professor of Moral and Practical Theology |
| Academic background | |
| Education | MA, DipTH, BA, DPhil |
| Alma mater | Colorado Christian University Loma Linda University University of Oxford King's College London |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Theology |
| Institutions | University of Erlangen–Nuremberg Duke Divinity School Theological University of the Reformed Churches University of Aberdeen |
| Main interests | Disability Theology, Systematic Theology, and Theological Ethics |
Brian Brock (born 1970) is an American theologian. He holds a Personal Chair in Christian Ethics at the School of Divinity, History, and Philosophy, University of Aberdeen.[1]
Brock was born and raised in Baytown, Texas, where he was educated at Robert E. Lee High School. Before training as a theologian, he worked as an investigative reporter and editorialist from 1997 to 1999 for the Baytown Sun.[2]
Brock studied biology at Colorado Christian University before taking a master's in biomedical and clinical ethics at Loma Linda University. In 1997, he moved to the United Kingdom, where he studied theology at the University of Oxford, before completing his doctoral studies in Christian Ethics in 2003 at King's College London, working under Michael Banner and Colin Gunton.[3]
Academic career
Brock conducted postdoctoral studies (2003-2004) at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen–Nuremberg under Hans G. Ulrich. In October 2004, he was appointed as a lecturer in Practical and Moral Theology at the University of Aberdeen. He was elevated to a Personal Chair in 2018. He has been a visiting scholar at Duke Divinity School (2008-2009) and the University of the Reformed Church in Kampen in 2014.
Brock is a member of the University of Aberdeen's Centre for Spirituality, Health and Disability[4] and a founding member of the Centre for the Study of Autism and Christian Community Friendship.[5] He is also a founding member of the new University of Aberdeen Friendship House initiative.[6]
Brock plays an active role in teaching undergraduates at the University of Aberdeen, leading postgraduate seminars, and has successfully supervised thirty doctoral candidates, many of whom have published their doctoral theses as books, including Andrew Draper,[7] Scott Prather,[8] Tyler Atkinson,[9] Michael Laffin,[10] Benjamin Wall,[11] Amy J. Erickson,[12] Andrew Errington,[13] Steven Schafer,[14] Kevin Hargaden,[15] Jacob Marques Rollison,[16] Timothy Shaun Price,[17] Daniel Patterson,[18] Ross Halbach,[19] Allen Calhoun,[20] Michael Morelli,[21] and Emily Beth Hill.[22] In 2022, the Aberdeen University Students' Association (AUSA) named him Best Postgraduate Research Supervisor.[23]
