It is hard to describe the moment you print the thesis and it goes from being an idea to a real physical book. This thesis was far more than a degree — it shaped me and held my concentration through Covid and the valley I was never expecting but found myself in. #drbennett #oxon

RT @OxfordGiving: Mansfield College has launched its first fully endowed graduate scholarships, made possible by a generous £4.7 million gi….

RT @urbanizedbeach: When the church becomes a brand, honesty becomes bad PR.

God has sent many prophets to the CofE but it has rarely listened. He will keep sending them and my prayer is for an Archbishop who will listen and obey God, above the opinion of human beings and the political pressure to secularise.

We cannot make disciples if all we look like is the world and hold onto our sexuality. We are not of the world, but sent into it. We have been changed to live according to a different, strange, and holy love signified by God dying for us on a first century torture device.

When we go before Jesus’ throne of judgment, I cannot see him saying “well done for loving people in spite of my scriptural commands.” Love, undefined by Jesus’ sanctifying word, becomes the pagan idolatry of the unredeemed heart.

RT @talkChristianly: Another LLF bombshell.

I’m really liking the New Pope Leo… the first Augustinian since the 15th century.

Was reading the New Testament in Koine with a fellow friend and scholar today… Jesus is SO much better in Greek. The translations just do not get the beauty, irony, and subtextual sass, as well as the poetics of repetition, alliteration, and syllogistic precision. Inspired ftw.

RT @AngelicoPress: A wonderful article by @DrMANowak and an introduction to many of the ideas explored in his most recent book 'Within'. h….

"The atheism of force is actually an atheism of fear." – John Goldingay on Daniel 3.

RT @PuseyHouse: Join us on Wednesday, 7th May at 16:00 for another Lecture in our 'Imago Dei' series. If you can't be with us, please do….

RT @PuseyHouseLib: If you are not able to be there in person, here is the livestream link:

RT @PuseyHouseLib: If you want to hear more about Augustine, please come this Wednesday at 4pm to hear @DavidACBennett speak in @PuseyHouse….

RT @PuseyHouse: Pusey House is holding a series of lectures during Trinity Term 2025, leading up to our 2025 Theological Conference, called….

RT @DrJADunne: This was such a fun and fascinating conversation with @DavidACBennett talking about arguably the most controversial Jesus fi….

UK readers, A War of Loves is 50% off now at St Andrews book store - I love to support independent book shops so if you have wanted to get a copy, now is your time: .

RT @talkChristianly: I'm grateful to @Christianitymag for publishing the preface to my new Grove Booklet, 'Compassionate Orthodoxy and Sexu….

RT @edwardinoxford: Review by @calebmorganday (Durham) and @DavidACBennett (Oxford) coming out in the May issue of Studies in Christian. 👀….

RT @EduardFiedler: A New Philosophical Frontier. At a time when philosophy is increasingly revisiting metaphysical questions, the new serie….

A beautiful example of accessible, and profound scholarship across the divides coming out this August. Honoured to be part of these seminal conversations for a new paradigm on Christian LGBTQI+ disagreement and solidarity: