Dr. Mark Scott, Lecturer

Office: D-304 | Tel: 514.848.2424 ext.2463 | Email: Mark Scott | Courses for 2009-10: THEO 204: Introduction to Christian Ethics; THEO 238: Theology in Film; THEO 293: Philosophical Foundations of Theology; THEO 298E: God and Suffering; THEO 320: History of Christianity: The First Millennium

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Education

Ph.D., (Religious Studies, Theology), Harvard University (2008)
A.M., (Religious Studies, Theology), Harvard University (2005)
M.A.R. (Theology), Yale Divinity School (2003)
B.A. Honours, (Religious Studies), McMaster University (2001)

Teaching Interests

Historical Theology, Systematic Theology (particularly Trinitarian theology and Christology), Ethics, Origen, the Problem of Evil 

Research Interests

Theological approaches to the problem of evil; Origen of Alexandria; theoretical approaches to the problem of evil; patristic exegesis

Publications

Articles:

“Guarding the Mysteries of Salvation: The Pastoral Pedagogy of Origen’s Universalism,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 18.3 (Fall 2010): forthcoming.

“Suffering and Soul-Making: Rethinking John Hick's Theodicy,” Journal of Religion 90.3 (July 2010): forthcoming.

“Theorizing Theodicy in the Study of Religion,” The Religion and Culture Web Forum (November 2009).

“Journeys in Grief: Theorizing Mourning Rituals,” ARC, The Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University (Fall 2009): 79-89.

“Shades of Grace: Origen and Gregory of Nyssa’s Soteriological Exegesis of Song of Songs 1:5” Harvard Theological Review 99:1 (2006): 65-83.

“God as Person: Karl Barth and Karl Rahner on Divine and Human Personhood” Religious Studies and Theology 25:2 (2006): 161-190.

Book Chapter:

“Origen on the Problem of Evil: Two Contested Aspects of his Theodicy,” in Evil and Suffering in the Patristic Period, Bruce Beck, editor (Baker Books, forthcoming).

Editorial Work:

“The God of Nicaea: Disputed Questions in Patristic Trinitarianism,” Special Issue of Harvard Theological Review 102.1 (April 2007), Assistant Editor.

Book Reviews (selection):

Miroslav Volf, Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace in Theological Book Review 20/1 (2008), 102-3.

Margaret M. Mitchell and Frances M. Young, editors, The Cambridge History of Christianity: Origins to Constantine in Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 36/3-4 (2007), 623-4.

J. Christopher King, Origen on the Song of Songs as the Spirit of Scripture in Theology and Sexuality 13/1 (2006), 103-4.

Peter van Inwagen, editor, Christian Faith and the Problem of Evil in Theological Book Review 17/1 (2005), 40.

Craig L. Blomberg, Making Sense of the New Testament in Review of Biblical Literature (February 2005).