Dr Timothy Stanley

Senior Lecturer

School of Humanities and Social Science

Email:timothy.stanley@newcastle.edu.au
Phone:(02) 4921 7927

Career Summary

Biography

My work addresses topics in philosophy of religion and the history of ideas. I teach courses on the study of religion in the university's Bachelor of Arts. As a researcher I write about: religion in deliberative democratic practices; technological legacies discernible in the history of religious books; and, the persistence of metaphysical reality claims despite their critique in philosophical theology.

Qualifications

PhD, University of Manchester - England
Master of Arts, University of Manchester - England

Keywords

Hannah Arendt
Immanuel Kant
Jacques Derrida
Jean-Luc Marion
Jürgen Habermas
Karl Barth
Martin Heidegger
Martin Luther
Paul Ricoeur
Søren Kierkegaard

Languages

Greek (Working)
Hebrew (Working)
German (Working)

Fields of Research

Code	Description	Percentage
220315	Philosophy of Religion	40
220499	Religion and Religious Studies not elsewhere classified	30
220209	History of Ideas	30

Professional Experience

UON Appointment

Title	Organisation / Department
Senior Lecturer	University of Newcastle School of Humanities and Social Science Australia

Academic appointment

Dates	Title	Organisation / Department
1/08/2008 - 1/08/2010	Post-Doctoral Research Fellow	The University of Manchester School of Arts, Histories and Cultures United Kingdom

Teaching

Code	Course	Role	Duration
PHIL1040	World Religions School of Humanities and Social Science - Faculty of Education and Arts - The University of Newcastle This course provides an introduction to the principal features of the world's major religions through reference to key events, characters, beliefs and related phenomena. With regard to each tradition, there will be a focus on both historical and contemporary events relevant to the understanding of religion today. Thinkers discussed may include, Philo, Origen, Rumi, Dogen, Julian of Norwich, Theodor Herzl, Mohandas Gandhi, and Vine Deloria Jr.	Course Convenor	25/02/2019 - 7/06/2019
PHIL2030	Philosophy of Religion School of Humanities and Social Science - Faculty of Education and Arts - The University of Newcastle The course examines a number of issues in philosophy of religion which came to the fore in the ancient, medieval, early modern and enlightenment periods. Philosophers to be considered in the discussion of relevant topics may include Augustine, Avicenna, Maimonides, Anselm, Descartes, Locke, Kant, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche.	Course Convenor	25/02/2019 - 7/06/2019
PHIL3040	Modern Religious Thought School of Humanities and Social Science - Faculty of Education and Arts - The University of Newcastle In the contemporary world it is no longer the case that belief in 'God' is the default setting, and no longer do the majority opt to embrace any number of traditional forms of religious life. The present climate is characterised by a plurality of religious options, movements, or ways of life. This course will examine a range of key philosophers that have contributed to the evolution of modern religious thought such as, Martin Buber, William James, Paul Tillich, Mary Daly, Emmanuel Levinas, and Charles Taylor.	Course Convenor	29/07/2019 - 8/11/2019
PHIL1042	Religion in Film School of Humanities and Social Science - Faculty of Education and Arts - The University of Newcastle In a number of classic and contemporary films, philosophical and religious themes such as sacrifice, forgiveness, redemption and apocalypse have been explored with great care and depth. This course will explore a sampling of Hollywood and global cinema in order to interpret their visual styles, narrative constructions, historical contexts, and salient religious themes.	Course Convenor	29/07/2019 - 8/11/2019

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Publications

For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.

Book (3 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
2017	Stanley TW, Writing Faith, Fortress Press, Minneapolis, 154 (2017) [A1]
2015	Stanley TW, Religion after secularization in Australia, Palgrave MacMillan, New York, 233 (2015) [A3]
2010	Stanley T, Protestant Metaphysics after Karl Barth and Martin Heidegger, SCM Press, London, United Kingdom, 288 (2010) [A1]

Chapter (2 outputs)

Year

Citation

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2015

Stanley TW, 'Utopia and the Public Sphere', Religion after Secularization in Australia, Palgrave MacMillan, New York 191-210 (2015) [B1]

2015

Stanley TW, 'Introduction', Religion after Secularization in Australia, Palgrave MacMillan, New York vii-xiv (2015) [B2]

Citations	Scopus - 10

Journal article (13 outputs)

Year

Citation

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2016

Stanley TW, 'Faithful Codex: A Theological Account of Early Christian Books', Heythrop Journal: A Quarterly Review of Philosophy and Theology, 57 9-28 (2016) [C1]

DOI	10.1111/heyj.12079

2016

Stanley TW, 'Bonhoeffer's Anti-Judaism', Political Theology, 17 297-305 (2016) [C1]

DOI	10.1080/10773525.2016.1187000

2015

Stanley TW, 'The Early Codex Book: Recovering its Cosmopolitan Consequences', Biblical Interpretation: A Journal of Contemporary Approaches, 23 369-398 (2015) [C1]

DOI	10.1163/15685152-00233P04

2013

Stanley TW, 'A Serious Man', The Bible and Critical Theory, 9 27-37 (2013) [C1]

2012

Stanley TW, 'Barth after Kant?', Modern Theology, 28 423-445 (2012) [C1]

Citations	Scopus - 2Web of Science - 1

2009

Stanley T, 'Before Analogy: Recovering Barth's Ontological Development', New Blackfriars, 90 577-601 (2009) [C1]

DOI	10.1111/j.1741-2005.2009.01302.x

2008

Stanley T, 'Karl Barth and Jürgen Habermas: Transcendental Aporias of Global Civil Society', Political Theology, 9 477-502 (2008) [C1]

DOI	10.1558/poth.v9i4.477

2008

Stanley T, 'Returning barth to anselm', Modern Theology, 24 413-437 (2008) [C1]

This article focuses on Barth's explication of Anselm's Proslogion 2-4 in his book on Anselm and attempts to show how Anselm helped clarify for Barth the ontological nat... [more]

This article focuses on Barth's explication of Anselm's Proslogion 2-4 in his book on Anselm and attempts to show how Anselm helped clarify for Barth the ontological nature of his own early theology, in particular what he meant by the ¿is¿ in his affirmation ¿God is God.¿ Our contention is that Barth's continual pointing to Anselm's Fides Quaerens Intellectum as a vital key to his own theology should not be overlooked. In fact, we argue that only by returning Barth to Anselm in this way can we begin to understand more thoroughly one of the key contributions of Barth's theology generally and its potential relevance to contemporary onto-theological debates. © 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

DOI	10.1111/j.1468-0025.2008.00465.x
Citations	Scopus - 2

2007

Stanley T, 'Heidegger on Luther on Paul', Dialog: a journal of theology, 46 41-45 (2007) [C1]

DOI	10.1111/j.1540-6385.2007.00306.x

2006

Stanley T, 'From Habermas to Barth and back again', JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE, 48 101-126 (2006) [C1]

DOI	10.1093/jcs/48.1.101
Citations	Scopus - 1Web of Science - 1

2006

Stanley T, 'Urban Surveillance: The Hidden Costs of Disneyland', International Journal of the Humanities, 3 117-124 (2006) [C1]

2006

Stanley T, 'Punch-Drunk Masculinity', Journal of Men s Studies: a scholarly journal about men and masculinities, 14 235-242 (2006) [C1]

DOI	10.3149/jms.1402.235

2005

Stanley T, 'Redeeming the Icons', The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, 6 39-62 (2005) [C1]

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Review (1 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
2010	Stanley TW, 'Review of 'Desire, Gift and Recognition: Christology and Postmodern Philosophy'', Ars Disputandi: the online journal for philosophy of religion (2010) [C3]

Conference (13 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
2017	Stanley T, 'Supplementing Arendt', Boston, MA, USA (2017)
2013	Stanley TW, 'Suspending the Political: Scholem, Barth and Qutb', The American Academy of Religion Annual Conference, Baltimore, USA (2013) [E3]
2012	Stanley TW, 'What Is This Strange Technological Thing Called the Bible?', Bible and Critical Theory Seminar, Auckland, NZ (2012)
2010	Stanley TW, 'Canon after Codex', American Academy of Religion Annual Conference, Atlanta (2010) [E1]
2010	Stanley TW, 'Why Protestant Metaphysics Today?', Theology Research Seminar, St. Andrews, UK (2010) [E2]
2010	Stanley TW, 'The Return of the Scroll: From Codex to Google', Valuing Theological Education Conference, The University of Oxford (2010) [E2]
2009	Stanley TW, 'Seinsweise in Barth's Theology', Society for the Study of Theology, Utrecht, The Netherlands (2009) [E3]
2006	Stanley TW, 'Karl Barth and Jürgen Habermas: Christianity in Civil Society', American Academy of Religion Annual Conference, Washington DC (2006) [E1]
2006	Stanley TW, 'Heidegger's Hidden Theology', 16th Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Religion, Tübingen, Germany (2006) [E1]
2006	Stanley TW, 'Barth's Prolegomena to Any Future Protestant Metaphysics which Can Possibly Pretend to Be a Science', Belief and Metaphysics Conference, The Centre of Philosophy and Theology in partnership with the Instituto de Filosofia Edith Stein de Granada, Granada, Spain (2006) [E1]
2006	Stanley TW, 'The Post-Ontological Paul?', Society of Biblical Literature Annual Conference, Washington DC (2006) [E1]
2005	Stanley TW, 'Urban Surveillance: From Concentration Camps to Disneyland', Third International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (2005) [E1]
2005	Stanley TW, 'Cyber-Space of Possibles', The Cyberspace 2005 Conference , Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (2005) [E1]
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Grants and Funding

Summary

Number of grants	5
Total funding	$131,500

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20181 grants / $20,000

Religious Print after the Enlightenment$20,000

The project investigates how a new form of religious print came to be recognised in the Enlightenment era. It evaluates the State Library of NSW’s Richardson Collection of rare Bibles and early printed religious works.

Funding body: Library Council of NSW

Funding body	Library Council of NSW
Project Team	Doctor Timothy Stanley
Scheme	Australian Religious History Fellowship
Role	Lead
Funding Start	2018
Funding Finish	2019
GNo	G1800604
Type Of Funding	C3112 - Aust Not for profit
Category	3112
UON	Y

20131 grants / $1,500

The American Academy of Religion Annual Conference, USA 23-26 November 2013$1,500

Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts

Funding body	University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Project Team	Doctor Timothy Stanley
Scheme	Travel Grant
Role	Lead
Funding Start	2013
Funding Finish	2013
GNo	G1300771
Type Of Funding	Internal
Category	INTE
UON	Y

20121 grants / $100,000

Religion in Political Life Research Program$100,000

Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts

Funding body	University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Project Team	Timothy Stanley
Scheme	Round 3 Research Program Funding
Role	Lead
Funding Start	2012
Funding Finish	2013
GNo
Type Of Funding	Internal
Category	INTE
UON	N

20111 grants / $5,000

New Staff Grant$5,000

Funding body: University of Newcastle

Funding body	University of Newcastle
Project Team	Doctor Timothy Stanley
Scheme	New Staff Grant
Role	Lead
Funding Start	2011
Funding Finish	2011
GNo
Type Of Funding	Internal
Category	INTE
UON	N

20101 grants / $5,000

Stanley - New Staff Grant 2010$5,000

Funding body: University of Newcastle

Funding body	University of Newcastle
Project Team	Doctor Timothy Stanley
Scheme	New Staff Grant
Role	Lead
Funding Start	2010
Funding Finish	2011
GNo	G1001043
Type Of Funding	Internal
Category	INTE
UON	Y

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Research Supervision

Number of supervisions

Completed6

Current1

Current Supervision

Commenced	Level of Study	Research Title	Program	Supervisor Type
2017	PhD	Freedom, Creativity and Authenticity in the Existentialist Philosophy of Gabriel Marcel, Nicholas Berdyaev and Jean Paul Sartre	PhD (Philosophy), Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle	Co-Supervisor

Past Supervision

Year	Level of Study	Research Title	Program	Supervisor Type
2017	Honours	Mad Max: Fury Hope	Philosophy & Religious Studies, School of Humanities and Social Science - Faculty of Education and Arts - The University of Newcastle	Sole Supervisor
2017	Honours	Buddhist and Lacanian Desire	Philosophy & Religious Studies, School of Humanities and Social Science - Faculty of Education and Arts - The University of Newcastle	Sole Supervisor
2016	Honours	Origen's Midrash Pesher	Philosophy & Religious Studies, School of Humanities and Social Science - Faculty of Education and Arts - The University of Newcastle	Sole Supervisor
2013	Honours	Kant in Rawls	Philosophy & Religious Studies, School of Humanities and Social Science - Faculty of Education and Arts - The University of Newcastle	Sole Supervisor
2012	Honours	Law and Ethics in Bonhoeffer	Philosophy & Religious Studies, School of Humanities and Social Science - Faculty of Education and Arts - The University of Newcastle	Sole Supervisor
2012	PhD	An Investigation of Contrasting Approaches to Worship within Australian Baptist Churches to Explore the Role of Apollonian and Dionysian Concepts of Art Play in Understanding the Differences. A Case Study Approach	PhD (Music), Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle	Co-Supervisor

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News

Historians awarded State Library fellowships

October 30, 2017

UON history researchers Dr Julie McIntyre and Dr Tim Stanley have each been awarded a prestigious 2018 NSW State Library Fellowship.