PHILOSOPHER | LECTURER | AUTHOR
Emily Qureshi-Hurst
BIO
I'm Emily - a Junior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford, and a College Lecturer in Philosophy at Oriel College, Oxford.
I have been at the University of Oxford since 2013. In 2016, I was awarded the Gibbs Prize for best performance in Final Examinations for my B.A. in Philosophy and Theology. I then went on to complete an M.St (2018) and a D.Phil (2021) in Science and Religion, focusing on the interface between physics, temporal metaphysics, and the Christian Doctrine of Salvation.
In 2022, Cambridge University Press published my first book exploring these themes, God, Salvation, and the Problem of Spacetime.
My second book on this topic, Salvation in the Block Universe: Time, Tillich, and Transformation, will be published in the second half of 2024.
I am currently undertaking a significant new project on the Everett or Many-Worlds interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and its implications for Theism.
The Christian understanding of salvation is highly vulnerable to questions about the nature of time, questions that are becoming increasingly urgent in physics and philosophy. Strangely, this area has had very little attention in theology, until now. In what is surely a major advance in the dialogue between science and religion, Qureshi-Hurst tackles the problems head on. This book opens up a whole new area of thought, and will surely be a central work of reference for years to come.
ANDREAS IPSOS PROFESSOR OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
PUBLICATIONS & RESEARCH OUTPUTS
Forthcoming
God and Modern Physics: Can Theology and Science Explain our World?
Wipf and Stock. (Forthcoming in 2024. Under contract, writing in progress).
MORE ABOUT ME
University of Oxford Faculty of Philosophy
University of Oxford Faculty of Theology and Religion
International Society for Science and Religion
Google Scholar
Academia.edu
