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David is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Ethics in the University of Edinburgh. His major book Material Eucharist (Oxford University Press 2016) draws on a rich variety of biblical, patristic, medieval and modern texts and traditions, bringing together theology and liturgy and showing their mutual dependence. Also incorporating findings from history, philosophy, anthropology, archaeology and cultural studies, the book has implications for how the Eucharist is understood across a range of academic disciplines, and offers suggestions for how it may be celebrated in churches today. David is currently completing Scripture in the Eucharist, which complements this study by showing how the Eucharist is the privileged setting in which scripture is read and demonstrates that the Eucharist is itself the active exegesis of scripture. He is editing the Cambridge Companion to the Christian Sacraments.
David has also worked extensively on animal welfare and food ethics, and is the author of The Bible and Farm Animal Welfare (Cascade 2024). He has served as deputy chair of Defra's Animal Welfare Committee and is currently a member of the Home Office Animals in Science Committee.
In his research on modern French Catholic theology, David has examined how a constellation of mostly Jesuit figures boldly reinterpreted scripture, patristics and later medieval theology in order to address issues related to faith, politics, science and non-Christian religions. This work includes Henri de Lubac and the Shaping of Modern Theology (Ignatius 2020) and Teilhard de Chardin: Theology, Humanity and Cosmos (Peeters 2005).
David is Deputy Editor of Ecclesiology, Associate Editor of Brill Research Perspectives in Theology, a Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, as well as a past Secretary and Treasurer of the Society for the Study of Theology.
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