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Dr Jonathan Torrance is Chaplain and Lord Crewe Career Development Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford. As a theologian, he is interested in the relationship between Christian teaching and pastoral ministry amidst the realities of actual human living. Before training to be a priest, he studied history at Oxford, and then spent 5 years in Switzerland as a youth pastor. He then returned to the UK to study theology at Cambridge, completing a PhD focussed on Martin Luther’s doctrine of sin in conversation with some contemporary critical theorists. This thesis won the 2025 Lautenschlaeger award.
His current research explores the intersection of theology and comic literature and theory, looking for resources for understanding hope and grace, to sustain life in an increasingly challenging world that gives so many reasons not to laugh.