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Alistair Iain McFadyen, senior lecturer in theological studies at the University of Leeds, is engaged in research that seeks to relate Christian doctrine to secular disciplines in the context of concrete situations and pastoral responsibilities. Within Leeds’s Healthcare Chaplaincy Program, he helped devise and teaches a course of studies leading to a master of arts degree, which is offered by the university’s School of Theology and Religious Studies and its School of Healthcare Studies. A graduate of Birmingham University, where he took a baccalaureate degree and earned a Ph.D. in theology in 1987, Dr. McFadyen worked for two years as a nurse in a psychiatric nursing hospital. He joined the Leeds faculty in 1988. Formerly a member of the Church of England’s Doctrine Commission and secretary to the Society of the Study of Theology, he served as co-editor of the SCM Press series on Society and Church. He is currently co-editor of a new SPCK series entitled Changing Society Changing Churches. Dr. McFadyen has written articles for professional and scholarly journals as well as essays for collected volumes on topics ranging from the Trinity to healing to art. Editor (with Marcel Sarot) of Forgiveness and Truth (2001), he is the author of The Call to Personhood: A Christian Theory of the Individual in Social Relationships (1990) and, most recently, Bound to Sin: Abuse, Holocaust and the Christian Doctrine of Sin, which was published in 2000 by Cambridge University Press. He is currently writing two new books—one on forgiveness in relation to childhood sexual abuse and the other on theological anthropology.
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