page_title: List of Durham University people
section_title: Philosophers and Theologians
hierarchical_section_title: List of Durham University people / Academics / Philosophers and Theologians
caption_attribution_description: English: Douglas Davies at St Chad's College, Durham
context_page_description: This is a list of people associated with Durham University, divided for user convenience into multiple subcategories. This includes alumni, those who have taught there, conducted research there or played a part in its founding. Durham is a collegiate university, so where known and if applicable, they are shown alongside their associated college. For reasons of brevity, alumni of University College, St Cuthbert's Society and Trevelyan College are written with the shorter, more informal names of Castle, Cuths and Trevs respectively.
  Note that college membership was not always compulsory. From Epiphany term of 1871 the university, as a way of lowering the cost of studying at Durham, began to admit students without the need to join a college or hall – an innovation that may have been influenced by Oxford's decision to admit non-collegiate students in 1868. This change proved popular, and between 1870/71 and 1890/91 the 'Unattached Members' were 28% of entrants. Some students who read for higher degrees, like the geologist Gillian Foulger, did not join a college either. Alumni who did not take up membership of a college or society are therefore listed as Unattached.
context_section_description: Lewis Ayres – Professor of Catholic and Historical Theology at Durham University; Bede Chair of Catholic Theology (2009–2013)
  Charles Kingsley Barrett – Professor of Divinity at Durham University (1958–1982)
  Stephen R. L. Clark – Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool
  Dan Cohn-Sherbok – Emeritus Professor of Judaism at the University of Wales
  David E. Cooper – Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Durham University
  Douglas Davies (St John's) – Professor in the Study of Religion at Durham
  James Dunn – Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at Durham University (1990–2003)
  Christopher Evans – Lightfoot Professor of Divinity (1959–1962)
  Stanley Eveling – Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University
  Simon J. Gathercole (Hatfield) – Reader in New Testament Studies and Director of Studies at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
  David Jasper (Hatfield and St Chad's) – Professor of Theology and Literature at the University of Glasgow
  R. W. L. Moberly – Professor of Theology and Biblical Interpretation at Durham University
  Tim Crane - Former Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge
caption: Douglas Davies, Professor in the Study of Religion; notable for his work on ritual and mortality
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