Timothy Farrant is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Religion at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute, BYU, and has developed research interests in medieval cultural history, theology, and pastoral studies. Prior to his current appointment, he completed a DPhil in Theology and Religion as a Mellon-Clarendon Scholar at Pembroke College, Oxford. He has worked in chaplaincy in UK hospitals and prisons, completing his PGCert in Chaplaincy at Newman University, Birmingham. From 2019-2022, he served on the UK & Ireland Chaplaincy Advisory Committee for the Church, and co-led the UK & Ireland Chaplaincy Council. He has co-directed and tutored on the OxNet Access programme at Pembroke College, Oxford, and has worked as a Visiting Tutor in Theology at Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln. He received a BA in History from the University of Bristol, an MA in Medieval History from the University of York, and is a member of the International Robert Grosseteste Society. In 2023, he was appointed as co-director of the annual Summer Theology Seminar with Terryl Givens and Benjamin Keogh.
Publications
Under Consideration
Timothy Farrant, The Figurative Turn: Reading Animals and the Created World in the High Middle Ages, (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer)
In Submission
Timothy Farrant, ‘Grosseteste’s Eagle’, for The Scientific Works of Robert Grosseteste, Vol. III, eds. Giles E. M. Gasper, et al. (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
Forthcoming
Timothy Farrant, ‘On Truth, Sight, and Zoology: Reading Alexander Neckam’s De naturis rerum through the Anselmian Lens of Truth’, in Anselm: Nature, Order, and the Divine, eds. Ian Logan & Alastair Forbes (Leiden: Brill)
Timothy Farrant, ‘The Figurative Sense and Sensing of Animals in Hugh of St Victor’s Didascalicon’, in Mind, Soul and the Cosmos in the High Middle Ages, eds. Jack Cunningham, Adam Foxon, & Ros Gammie (Springer)
Published
Timothy Farrant, ‘Aliquid altius ente: Further Reflections on the Theological Consistency of Meister Eckhart’s Metaphysics’, Philosophy & Theology, 30:2, (2018), pp.299-30.
Timothy Farrant & Joshua Harvey, ‘Washington D.C.: “Aspectus and Affectus. Robert Grosseteste, Understanding and Feeling”’, Bulletin de philosophie médiévale, 59, (2018), pp.300-10.
Timothy Farrant & Joshua Harvey, ‘Aspectus and Affectus: Robert Grosseteste, Understanding and Feeling. Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. (USA), 30 March-1 April 2017’, Revista Española de Filosofia Medievale, 24 (2017), pp.279-81.
Saints-Facing
Timothy Farrant, ‘Augustine, Lehi, and the Arboreal Imagery of Eden’, in Approaching the Tree: Interpreting 1 Nephi 8, eds. Benjamin Keogh, Joseph Spencer, & Jennifer Champoux (Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2023), pp.191-205.
Timothy Farrant, ‘Mr. Jones and Mr. Nisbet’, in Wayfare Magazine, Issue 2 (Summer, 2023), pp.187-90.
Timothy Farrant, ‘Lady Elect: Image, Allegory, and Revelation Theology in Doctrine and Covenants 25’, in As It Shall Be Given Thee: Reading Doctrine and Covenants 25, eds. Joseph Spencer & Rosalynde Frandsen Welch (USA, Proceedings of the Latter-day Saint Theology Seminar, 2023), pp.93-114.