Revd Professor Andrew Davison to give inaugural lecture as Regius Professor of Divinity

The Revd Professor Andrew Davison (1992) will deliver his inaugural lecture as Regius Professor of Divinity on 15 June at the Schwarzman Centre, Oxford.

The Regius Professorship of Divinity was founded by Henry VIII in 1535 as one of the original five Regius Chairs and remains one of the most distinguished academic appointments in the world.

Professor Davison’s lecture, ‘The Creed in Music: A thousand years of setting Christian theology to music’ will be interwoven with live performances by the Cathedral Choir of Christ Church Cathedral. The programme spans the Renaissance to the 20th century, featuring settings of the Creed by John Taverner and Frank Martin, offering a rich illustration of the continuity and development of theological expression through music.

For more details of the event and to register to attend, please see the Oxford Theology events page here. 

Professor Davison first came to Oxford in 1992 as an undergraduate student of chemistry at Merton College, where he stayed on to complete a DPhil in Biochemistry. He subsequently read Theology and completed a PhD in Theology at the University of Cambridge. Ordained in Southwark, he served in parish ministry in South London, and his first teaching appointment was at St Stephen’s House, Oxford, as tutor in doctrine. He was concurrently junior chaplain of Merton College. He then moved to the University of Cambridge, first for a tutoring role at Westcott House and then for the post of Starbridge Lecturer (later Professor) of Theology and Natural Sciences. He was a Fellow and Director of Studies in Theology at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, from 2014 to 2024.

In September 2024, he was appointed Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford, a post that is based at Christ Church, where he is also residentiary canon of the cathedral.

His research spans theology, philosophy, and natural science, and includes work on astrobiology, AI, Thomas Aquinas, and what Christianity has made of themes from Plato.