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Teaching

Prof. Wolfe teaches Systematic and Philosophical Theology, as well as Theology & the Arts.
In 2014, she was awarded a Teaching Excellence Award by the University of Oxford.

Current Teaching:

In 2024/25, Prof. Wolfe is teaching DI5527 Theology in 20th-Century German Literature, focusing (this year) on the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. She is also contributing to DI2010 Philosophical Theology, and to seminars and reading groups.

Current and recently completed PhD Supervision:

  • Wade Bellesbach: The Artistic Vocation in Lutheran Theology
  • Dante Clementi: Silence, Language, and Christian Self-Becoming in Kierkegaard’s Writings on Matthew 6:24 – 34
  • Cameron Crickenberger: Divine Love in Aquinas and Balthasar (with Prof. Simon Oliver) [successfully defended]
  • Lance Green: Metaphysics of Embodiment: Sacramental Ontology and Martin Heidegger [successfully defended]
  • Charles Howell: The Theological Aesthetics of Eberhard Jüngel [successfully defended]
  • Jarek Jankowski: Analogy and Ontotheology (with Dr Euan Grant)
  • Austin Kopack: Wittgenstein, Metaphor, and Theology
  • Patrick McGlinchey: The Theological Aesthetics of the Human in the Work of Rowan Williams [successfully defended]
  • Margaret McKerron: Thomas Erskine of Linlathen, A.J. Scott, and Practiced Theology [successfully defended]
  • Tomos Roberts-Young: The Divine Will in the Theology of F.D.E. Schleiermacher (with Prof. Bruce McCormack)
  • James Smoker: The Dark Worlds of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Imagination (with Dr Gavin Hopps) [successfully defended]

Past Courses:

University of St Andrews (since 2014):

Undergraduate:

    • God and the World
    • Readings in Reformation and Early Modern Theology

Graduate:

    • Eschatology (MLitt in Systematic & Historical Theology)
    • Origins of Christian Theology (MLitt in Systematic & Historical Theology, co-taught with Prof. N.T. Wright)
    • Christian Doctrine and the Arts (MLitt in Theology & the Arts)
    • Theology in 20th-Century German Literature (MLitt in Systematic & Historical Theology and Theology & the Arts, co-taught with Prof. Christoph Schwöbel)
    • Selected Modern Theologian: C.S. Lewis (MLitt in Systematic & Historical Theology)
    • Reading group on Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method (2015)
    • Reading group on C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man (2016)
University of Oxford (2011-2013):

Undergraduate:

    • Modern & Systematic Theology
    • Issues in Theology 1789 -1921
    • The History and Theology of Western Christianity 1050-1350
    • The Development of Doctrine in the Early Church to AD 451
    • C.S. Lewis

Graduate:

    • Coordinator of the M.St. in Modern Theology (2013/14)
    • Methods and Styles in Theology (seminars and tutorials)
    • Theology and Modern European Thought (seminars)
    • German for Theologians
European College of Liberal Arts (2009-2011):
    • Forms of Love (1st Year General Studies BA Core Course)
    • Faith, Reason and Scepticism (2nd Year General Studies BA Core Course)
    • Introduction to Christianity (1st-3rd Year General Studies BA Elective)
    • The New Testament (1st-3rd Year General Studies BA Elective)
    • Not Yet in the Now: Waiting for the Apocalypse (1st-3rd Year General Studies BA Elective)
    • Phenomenology & Theology (1st Year Postgraduate Elective)

Past PhD supervision:

  • Relation-in-Distinction: Aspects of the God-Creature Relation in the Theology of John Webster
  • History, Participation and Nature: The Contribution of Thomas Aquinas’ Doctrine of Original Sin to a Contemporary Debate
  • A Phenomenological Theology of Glory
  • Religious Experience after Kierkegaard and Heidegger
  • An Ethical and Theological Reading of Heidegger’s Critique of Modernity
  • Human Essence and Soteriological End
  • Christology in the Plays of Dorothy L. Sayers
  • C.S. Lewis and the Neurotic Imagination: A Horneyian Analysis
  • The Nexus of Logos and Psyche: C. S. Lewis’s early reflections upon the nature and operation of literature