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Dr Elizabeth Burns
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Dr Elizabeth Burns is Reader in Philosophy of Religion at the °®ÆＧ of London Worldwide, a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College, London, and a Fellow of the °®ÆＧ of London’s Centre for Online and Distance Education.
She studied for a Bachelor of Divinity at King’s College, London and a PhD in Philosophy of Religion at Queens’ College, Cambridge.
She holds a PGCE in post compulsory education and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. From 2000-2017 she taught Philosophy of Religion at Heythrop College, °®ÆＧ of London, where she was Dean of Undergraduate Studies for five years.
She was also Director of Taught Programmes at the Cambridge Theological Federation from 2016-2018.
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Publications
- 2022: ‘Murdoch and Christianity’, in The Murdochian Mind, ed. Mark Hopwood and Silvia Panizza (London: Routledge).
- 2021: ‘Evil and divine power: A response to James Sterba’s argument from evil’, Religions 2021, 12(6), 442; , invited paper for special edition, ‘Is the God of Traditional Theism Logically Compatible with All the Evil in the World?’
- 2021: ‘Anne Conway’s Philosophy of Religion’, Think, 20 (59), 143-155.
- 2020: ‘Evil, prayer and transformation’ Open Theology, 6 (1),
- 2019: Guest editor for special issue of European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, ‘Philosophy, religion, and hope’.
- 2019: Continental Philosophy of Religion, Cambridge Elements Series, ed. Yujin Nagasawa (Cambridge: Cambridge °®ÆＧ Press).
- 2019: ‘How to prove the existence of God: an argument for conjoined panentheism’ International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 85 (1), 5-21, . First published at Online First 8 November 2018. Contribution to ‘The Pantheism and Panentheism Project’, edited by Yujin Nagasawa.
- 2018: ‘Patching Plantinga’s ontological argument by making the Murdoch move’, in Jerry L. Walls and Trent Dougherty (eds) Two Dozen (or so) Arguments for God: The Plantinga Project, proceedings of a conference in honour of Alvin Plantinga, Baylor °®ÆＧ, Waco, Texas (6-8 November 2014), (Oxford: Oxford °®ÆＧ Press), 123-136. Mentioned in a review in Reading Religion at: .
- 2018: What is this thing called Philosophy of Religion? (London: Routledge).
- 2018: ‘Continental philosophy, evil and suffering’, in Jerome Gellman (ed.) The History of Evil from the Mid-Twentieth Century to Today (1950-2018), Volume VI of Chad Meister and Charles Taliaferro (eds) The History of Evil (London: Routledge), 152-166.
- 2017: ‘Feminist Philosophy of Religion’, in Donald M. Borchert (ed.) Philosophy: Religion. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Philosophy series. (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA/Gale, a Cengage Company), 347-360; reprinted in 2017: Carol Hay (ed.) Philosophy: Feminism. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Philosophy series. (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA/Gale, a Cengage Company), 363-375.
- 2015: ‘Images of reality: Iris Murdoch’s five ways from art to religion’. Religions, 6 (3), 875-890, . Published online 30 July 2015. Featured on publisher’s blog as research highlight at:
- 2014: ‘Classical and revisionary theism on the divine as personal: a rapprochement?’ International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 78 (2), 151-165. [First published at Online First 24 December 2014.]; reprinted in 2017: Kelly Clark (ed.) Readings in the Philosophy of Religion (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press), 298-309.
- 2014: ‘Where the conflict really lies: Plantinga, the challenge of evil, and religious naturalism’. Philosophia Reformata, 79 (I), 66-82. Published with a response from Plantinga.
- 2013: ‘Ontological arguments from experience: Daniel A. Dombrowski, Iris Murdoch, and the nature of divine reality’. Religious Studies, 49 (4), 459-480. First published at FirstView Articles 23 November 2012.
- 2012: ‘Is there a distinctively feminist Philosophy of Religion?’ Philosophy Compass, 7 (6), 422-435; reprinted in a special edition on Meta-Philosophy of Religion.
