Prof Peter Hampson
Senior Common Room Member
Professor Hampson has degrees in both psychology and theology. A Chartered Psychologist, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of the West of England in Bristol, and Honorary Professor at National University of Ireland, Maynooth he now teaches psychology at Blackfriars. His scholarly interests include theology-psychology dialogue; Christian anthropology and moral psychology; religion, theology, and interdisciplinary in higher education and culture. He is a series editor for the Bloomsbury ‘Religion and the University Series’ which explores the role of religion and theology in the academy and wider culture.
Select Publications:
Imagery and Consciousness. (London and New York: Academic Press, 1983, with Peter Morris);
Imagery: Current Developments. (London: Routledge, 1990, with co-editors David Marks and John Richardson);
Understanding Cognition. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996, with Peter Morris);
Theology and Philosophy: Faith and Reason. (London: Continuum, 2012, co-edited with Gavin D’Costa, Mervyn Davies and Oliver Crisp);
Christianity and the Disciplines: The Transformation of the University. (London: Continuum, 2012, co-edited with Gavin D’Costa, Mervyn Davies and Oliver Crisp);
Theology and Literature after Postmodernity. (London: Bloomsbury, 2015, co-edited with Zoë Lehmann Imfeld and Alison Milbank);
and numerous articles and chapters on cognitive psychology and theology.