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'''Gavin Hyman''' (born in 1974) is a British philosopher and theologian and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Global Affairs (formerly the ''Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion'') at Lancaster University. He has published widely on theology, continental philosophy and politics.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gavin Hyman |url=https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/global-affairs/people/gavin-hyman |access-date=2025-11-03 |website=Lancaster University |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=James|first=Adam|title=Weapons of choice for tree huggers|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=202971&sectioncode=26|access-date=3 December 2010|newspaper=Times Higher Education|date=5 May 2006}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Gavin Hyman (Lancaster University) - PhilPeople |url=https://philpeople.org/profiles/gavin-hyman |access-date=2025-11-03 |website=philpeople.org |language=en}}</ref>

== Career == Hyman read theology at the University of Exeter and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he wrote his PhD thesis on postmodern theology under the supervision of Graham Ward. A revised version of the thesis was later published as ''The Predicament of Postmodern Theology: Radical Orthodoxy or Nihilist Textualism''?.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hyman |first=Gavin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VuXIL7amXvIC |title=The Predicament of Postmodern Theology: Radical Orthodoxy Or Nihilist Textualism? |date=2001-01-01 |publisher=Westminster John Knox Press |isbn=978-0-664-22366-3 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Snyder |first=G. Chad |title=Predicaments : A review of Gavin Hyman "The predicament of postmodern theology: Radical Orthodoxy or nihilist textualism?" |url=https://ixtheo.de/Record/1934692778 |access-date=2025-11-03 |website=ixtheo.de |language=English}}</ref> In 1999, he joined Lancaster University, where he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2013.<ref>LU Text, Promotion, http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/ext-rel/press/LU%20Text/Archive/LUtext-616.htm</ref> In addition to his academic work, Hyman has served in various managerial roles at Lancaster University. From 2011 to 2018 he was the University Public Orator.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gavin Hyman |url=https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/global-affairs/people/gavin-hyman |access-date=2025-11-03 |website=Lancaster University |language=en}}</ref>

== Books by Gavin Hyman == *''The Predicament of Postmodern Theology: Radical Orthodoxy or Nihilist Textualism?'', Westminster: John Knox Press, 2001. {{ISBN|978-0-664-22366-3}} *''New directions in philosophical theology: essays in honour of Don Cupitt''. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. *''A Short History of Atheism.'', London: I B Tauris, 2010. ISBN 978-1-84885-137-5 *''Traversing the middle: ethics, politics, religion''. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2013. *''Confronting Secularism in Europe and India: Legitimacy and Disenchantment in Contemporary Times'', co-edited with Brian Black and Graham M. Smith. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. *''Agnosticism: Explorations in Philosophy and Religious Thought'', co-edited with Francis Fallon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. *''Keeping the Red Flag Flying: The Labour Party in Opposition since 1922'', co-written with Mark Garnett and Richard Johnson. Cambridge: Polity, 2024.

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==External links== *[http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/ppr/profiles/Gavin-Hyman/ Faculty profile]

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