Dr David Grumett (BA(Hons) MPhil PhD SFHEA)
Senior Lecturer, Theology and Ethics; Convener, Research Ethics Committee
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Room 2.21, School of Divinity, Mound Place
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Background
David has interests in theology, ethics and philosophy. Prior to arriving at Edinburgh, he held positions at the Universities of Cambridge and Exeter.
Qualifications
BA(Hons) MPhil PhD SFHEA
Responsibilities & affiliations
Internal Appointments:
- Convener, Divinity Research Ethics Committee
- Academic cohort lead, Philosophy and Theology
External appointments:
- Assessor, Office for Students
- AHRC Peer Review College
- Research Assessor, Carnegie Trust
- Deputy Editor, Ecclesiology
- Associate Editor, Brill Research Perspectives in Theology
Undergraduate teaching
DIVI10089 Metaphysics and Morality
This course examines the relationship between metaphysics and morality in German philosophy from Kant to Arendt, including the place of God and religion. It is for 3rd and 4th year students in the School of Divinity, including those also studying Philosophy. The other major figures studied are Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger.
DIVI10034 Food in Christian Religion
This course explores fascinating and sometimes bizarre Christian traditions of food and eating in order to understand consumption, addiction and abstinence today. Bringing together material from biblical studies, history, theology and social theory, it is for 3rd and 4th year students in the School of Divinity and for visiting students.
DIVI10035 Theological Ethics in Continental European Perspective
This course examines recent theories of the person and relationships between people developed or used by Christian ethicists. It is for 3rd and 4th year students in the School of Divinity, including those also studying Philosophy. The major ethicists studied are Levinas, Ricoeur, Derrida, Merleau-Ponty and Bonhoeffer.
DIVI10001 Dissertation
EFIE10006 Conflict, Peacebuilding and Religion
This course examines peacebuilding in different global regions where religion has been a key part of a conflict and its resolution, including guiding concepts, methodologies and outcomes. Wider issues of state and religious legitimacy are also addressed.
Postgraduate teaching
EFIE11306 New Paradigms in Ethics
This course explores virtue, narrative and community as these feature in the work of the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre. It considers their origins and development and provides opportunities for them to be deployed and critically assessed.
DIVI11010 Dissertation
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Current PhD students supervised
Michael Harris, Christian and Muslim adoption theology and practice
Ryan Bennett, Social theology of William Temple and Dorothy Day
Stephen Noon, Theology and politics in Scotland
Jamie Gaston, Theological aesthetics
Isaac Cirinna, Death in de Lubac and Bonhoeffer
Past PhD students supervised
Carolina Sanz De La Fuente, Theological critique of transhumanism (2025)
Nomi Pritz, Maurice Blondel, mysticism and nihilism (2023)
Jeremy-Joe Tan, William Temple’s christology and ecclesiology (2022)
Beatrice Ang, John Chrysostom, ressourcement and church leadership (2021)
Paul Scott, Critiques of kenotic Christology (2021)
Julian Roche, Roger Garaudy, Marxism and Christianity (2020)
B. J. Condrey, Supererogation in Christian ethics (2020)
George Walters-Sleyon, Christian ethics, mass incarceration and death (2019)
Anthony Haynes, Jacques Maritain, metaphysics and mysticism (2018)
Russell Almon, Stanley Grenz’s social trinitarianism (2017)
Research summary
David's interests span theology, ethics and philosophy. He has published extensively on aspects of modern French Catholic theology, including the work of Henri de Lubac, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Maurice Blondel and Yves de Montcheuil. He has also produced work on theology and food, in which he seeks to recover and rearticulate a distinctively Christian ethics of eating for the present day, and on animal ethics.