Dr Douglas Gay
Lecturer in Practical Theology
contact details
+44 141 330 2073
douggay@arts.gla.ac.uk
office hours: 9:30-12:30 Wednesdays
about Dr Gay
Doug joined the department in October 2005 after PhD studies in New College, Edinburgh under Will Storrar and David Fergusson. He holds an MA degree in Modern History and International Politics from the University of St Andrews and a BD from the University of Glasgow. Doug is an ordained minister who trained for ministry in the Church of Scotland and worked as a Church of Scotland minister for two years, before spending six years working in Hackney, East London as a minister of the United Reformed Church. He has worked as a religious columnist for The Times and is also active as a hymnwriter and liturgist.
teaching areas
- Practical Theology
- Church in Scotland
- Missiology
- Liturgy and Homiletics
- Political Theology
research interests
His research interests lie in two main areas: ecclesiology and political theology.
Within ecclesiology he works on the relationships between the reformed tradition, emerging church and ecumenism; on the relations between ecclesiology and missiology (with a particular interest in Scotland) and also writes on contemporary perspectives on liturgy and preaching.
Within political theology, he is interested in the relationship between Reformed and Anabaptist perspectives on politics and is currently working on questions of theology and nationalism, with particular reference to Scotland.
areas of postgraduate supervision
Doug is interested in receiving proposals from PhD students wishing to study in the following areas:
- Ecclesiology
- Liturgy and worship
- Homiletics
- Political theology
- Church in Scotland
- Missiology
recent publications
Baker, J. & Gay, D., Alternative Worship - Resources From and For the Emerging Church, London, SPCK (2003), Grand Rapids, Baker (2004), ISBN: 0281053960
Gay, D., "Worship Alternatives," chapter in Urban Church ed. Eastman & Latham, London, SPCK, 2004
Gay, D., "Embodying Divine Economy - A Political Theology of Credit Unions," Political Theology (April 2007, Vol 8:2; ISSN 1462-317X [print])
Gay, D., "Faith In, With and Under Gordon Brown" - International Journal of Public Theology – Nov 2007
Gay, D., A Practical Theology of Church and World – Ecclesiology and Social Vision in 20th C Scotland – PhD Thesis (2006) University of Edinburgh. Published Online: Click here to view
Gay, D., "Gordon Brown and his Presbyterian Moral Compass" - Forthcoming in Scott, P & Graham, E. ed. Remoralising Britain, Continuum, 2009