Emily Qureshi-Hurst

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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.

Bio

GOD, SALVATION AND THE PROBLEM OF SPACETIME

This book is an impressive and challenging piece of scholarship. It covers ancient and medieval philosophy, 20th century physics, and theological conundrums that arise from time to time. Dr. Qureshi-Hurst presents a well-organized and focused argument as she explains and connects those various fields. Her grasp of such varied, yet similarly mind-bending, topics is impressive; her engagement with a diverse array of interlocutors and scholarly conversations evinces her multifaceted expertise. Dr. Qureshi-Hurst succeeds admirably in producing both an argument for and an exemplar of generative interdisciplinary scholarship.

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