Nationality British | Name Michael Northcott | |
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Notable work The Environment and Christian Ethics ; An Angel Directs the Storm; A Moral Climate Books Moral Climate, The environment and Chris, A Political Theology of Climat, An angel directs the storm, Life After Debt: Christiani | ||
Prof michael northcott fair trade or free trade competing moral economies in a changing world
Michael Northcott (born 1955) is Professor of Ethics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is best known for his contributions to environmental theology and ethics.
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- Prof michael northcott fair trade or free trade competing moral economies in a changing world
- Political Theology in the Anthropocene Epoch by Michael Northcott
- Life
- Current research projects
- Articles
- Book chapters
- Other publications
- References
'Political Theology in the Anthropocene Epoch' by Michael Northcott
Life
Michael Northcott was born and brought up in Kent, England to James and Betty Northcott, attended schools in Beckenham, Kent and Cranbrook, Kent. He was married in 1977 to Jill Benz, with whom he has two daughters and a son.
He holds a B. A. in Theology and an M.A. in Systematic Theology from the University of Durham where he attended St Chad's College. He was ordained to the diaconate of the Church of England, after attending Cranmer Hall, Durham in 1981, and to the priesthood in 1982. He received a Ph.D. from the Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA) and Sunderland Polytechnic (now Sunderland University) in 1982 for a thesis on new patterns of Ministry in the Northeast of England; his advisor was David E. Jenkins. He served as an Anglican curate in St Clements. Chorlton-cum-Hardy from 1981-84.
He began his academic career as a research assistant in Sunderland Polytechnic from 1977-1980. He was appointed lecturer in Practical theology at the Seminari Theologi Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur in 1984 and as Associate Professor in the South East Asia Graduate School of Theology in 1986. He Joined the University of Edinburgh in 1989 as lecturer in Christian ethics and Practical theology; he became a full professor there in 2007. He has supervised thirty doctoral students at Edinburgh.
He has been visiting professor at Dartmouth College (1997 and 2011), Claremont School of Theology (2002), the Nicholas School of Earth Sciences, Duke University (2005), Flinders University Adelaide (2008), and the University of Malaya (2008).
He writes regularly in the Church Times and is a priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church where he has served as Associate Priest at Old Saint Paul's, Edinburgh and St James, Leith
Current research projects
Northcott’s research deals with the relationship between ethics, ecology and religion. He is currently working on four research projects: place, ecology and the sacred, climate change and christian ethics, religion and ecology in southeast asia, and the morality of making: work, technology and Christian ethics. He leads a large AHRC grant on faith-based ecological activism in the UK entitled 'Caring for the Furture Through Ancestral Time: http://ancestraltime.org.uk. He is a co-investigator on the Human-Business at Edinburgh Initiative investigating the ethical implications of current modes of representing economic value: http://www.human-business.hss.ed.ac.uk