Paul Dafydd Jones

Office Hours

(on leave)

Education

• Harvard University: AM and PhD 
• Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg: DAAD Graduate Research Scholar, Wissenschaftlich-Theologisches Seminar 
• The Divinity School, Harvard University: MDiv 
• Oxford University: BA, MA 

Research interests

Christian thought; Christian theology; Protestantism; Liberation theologies; constructive theology; religion in public life

I work broadly in the field of Christian thought, with an especial interest in Protestant theology. My current research focuses on the neglected theme of patience; I have published the first instalment of a multivolume constructive work, Patience—A Theological Exploration: Part 1, from Creation to Christ (T&T Clark). These constructive interests run alongside a longstanding fascination with the theology of Karl Barth. I am the author of a major monograph on Barth’s Christology, The Humanity of Christ: Christology in Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics (T&T Clark); co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Karl Barth (Oxford University Press); and co-editor of Karl Barth and Liberation Theology (T&T Clark). Other publications engage major figures and topics in Christian theology, western philosophy of religion, liberation theology, political theology, critical theory, religion and public life, and theory and method in the study of religion.

With Charles Mathewes (University of Virginia), I was recently co-director of a major project, funded by the Luce Foundation: “Religion and Its Publics.” With Paul Nimmo (University of Aberdeen), I am currently co-editor of the T&T Clark series, Explorations in Reformed Theology.

Future projects include an essay collection titled Atonement and Christian Life: Reckoning with the Cross, which will be published in 2027; a second volume of Patience—A Theological Exploration; and a co-authored book on religion and its publics.

Teaching  

• Elements of Christian Thought
• Protestant Theology
• Christian Theologies of Liberation
• The Theology of Karl Barth
• Hegel, Materialism, and Theology
• Freedom: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives

Selected Publications

• “Patience, sanctification, and the turbulence of the spirit: toward a (Reformed) theology of sexuality,” Theology and Sexuality (2026) 
• “The Threefold Office of Jesus as Prophet, Priest, and King,” St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, ed. Brendan N. Wolfe et al (2026). 
• Karl Barth and Liberation Theology, coedited with Kaitlyn Dugan
• Patience—A Theological Exploration: Part 1, from Creation to Christ
• The Oxford Handbook of Karl Barth, coedited with Paul T. Nimmo
• The Humanity of Christ: Christology in Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics

Selected Awards and Grants

• Co-Director, project on Religion and Its Publics 
• Early Career Scholar, "The Enhancing Life Project" (John Templeton Foundation/The University of Chicago/Ruhr Universität Bochum)
• Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Residential Fellow (Spring 2016)
• John Casteen III Fellowship in Ethics
• The John Templeton Award for Theological Promise
• Mead Honored Faculty 
• Residential Member of the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, New Jersey (Spring 2010)