Esther McIntosh
Research Fellow, Chair of the Faculty of Education &
Theology Research Ethics Committee
Contact Details
T: 01904876410 E: e.mcintosh@yorksj.ac.uk
Information
Esther works part-time at York St John, where she is assistant
editor of the International Journal of Public Theology
http://www.brill.nl/ijpt and she is
involved in a number of research projects. She holds a BD (Hons)
and a PhD from the University of Aberdeen and is a John Macmurray
scholar and feminist theologian. Her research spans public
theology, philosophical theology, philosophy of religion, ethics
and gender studies. In particular, she is concerned with the
concept of the person and with the ethics of personal relations,
especially in response to feminism and religious pluralism.
Current Research Interests
John Macmurray, public theology, feminist theology, ethics
Selected Publications
Books
Esther McIntosh (2011) John Macmurray's
Religious Philosophy What it Means to be a Person (Ashgate
Publishing), 276 pp., ISBN 978-0-7546-5163-5
Esther McIntosh, ed. (2004),
John Macmurray: Selected Philosophical Writings
(Exeter: Imprint Academic), 210 pp., ISBN 0-907845-738
Chapters in books
Esther McIntosh, 'Issues in Feminist Public Theology', in
Stephen Burns and Anita Morno, eds. (2012), Not Behind Our
Backs (London: Equinox), ISBN (hbk) 9781845537135 (pbk)
9781845537142
Esther McIntosh, ‘Community and Society: John Macmurray
(1891-1976) and New Labour’, in S. Kim and P. Kollontai, eds
(2007), Community Identity: Dynamics of Religion in
Context (London: T&T Clark), pp. 69-87, ISBN
0567031578
Esther McIntosh, ‘Macmurray, John (1891-1976)’, in A. Grayling,
A. Pyle and N. Goulder, eds (2006), The Continuum Encyclopedia
of British Philosophy, vol. 3 (London and New York:
Thoemmes/Continuum), pp. 2037-2041, ISBN 1843711419
Esther McIntosh, ‘Macmurray, John (1891-1976)’, in S. Brown, ed.
(2005), Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British
Philosophers, vol. 2 (Bristol: Thoemmes Press), pp. 636-641, ISBN
184371096
Esther McIntosh, ‘Educating the Emotions’, in David Fergusson
and Nigel Dower, eds. (2002), John Macmurray: Critical
Perspectives (New York: Peter Lang), pp. 133-140, ISBN
0820452645
Esther McIntosh, ‘Impartiality and Virtue versus Self-Emptying
and Moral Guidance: A Systematic Theologian’s Response’, in Jack
Mahoney (2000), The Moral Context of Pastoral Care, A
Contact Pastoral Monograph, 10 (Edinburgh: Contact
Pastoral Trust), pp. 31-34, ISBN 0952248573
Articles
Esther McIntosh (2008), 'Philosophers, Politicians and
Archbishops', International Journal of Public Theology
(2:4), 465-483
Esther McIntosh (2007), ‘Religious Voices in Public Places: John
Macmurray on Church and State’, Journal of Irish and Scottish
Studies (1:1), 121-137
Esther McIntosh (2007), ‘The Concept of Sacrifice: A
Reconsideration of the Feminist Critique’, International
Journal of Public Theology (1:2), 210-229
Esther McIntosh (2007), ‘The Possibility of a
Gender-Transcendent God: Taking Macmurray Forward’, Feminist
Theology (15:2), 236-255
Esther McIntosh (2001), ‘Macmurray and the Significance of
Friendship’, Theology in Scotland (8:2), 5-21
Esther McIntosh (2001), ‘Reason versus Emotion: Redressing the
Balance’, Practical Philosophy (4:2), 28-32
Esther McIntosh (2001), ‘The Concept of the Person and the
Future of Virtue Theory – Macmurray and MacIntyre’, Quodlibet
Journal (3:4), http://www.quodlibet.net/mcintosh-virtue.shtml
Esther McIntosh and John Swinton (2000), ‘Persons in Relation:
John Macmurray and the Care of Persons with Profound Learning
Disability’, Theology Today (57:2), 175-184
Pamphlet
Esther McIntosh (2001), ‘Value and Meaning – The Role of the
Emotions’, Audenshaw Papers, 194 (Manchester: The
Audenshaw Foundation), 4 pp.
Presentations at National/International
Conferences
Esther McIntosh (2010), 'Feminist Public
Theology', at Global Network for Public Theology
consultation, Charles Sturt University in Canberra and
Sydney, Australia
Esther McIntosh (2010), 'Macmurray
on Artistic Knowledge, Matters of Value and Religion', at
Society for the Study of Theology annual conference, University of
Manchester, UK.
Esther McIntosh (2009),
'Community, Macmurray and the Ethics of Personal
Relations', at Society for the Study of Theology annual
conference, Kontakt der Kontinenten, Soesterberg, The
Netherlands.
Esther McIntosh (2008), 'The Concept of
Sacrifice and Feminist Theology', at European Society for
Philosophy of Religion conference, University of Oslo, Norway
Esther McIntosh (2008), 'Religious Reasons
in the Public Square', at Society for the Study of Theology
conference, University of Durham, UK.
Esther McIntosh (2007), ‘Connecting Public and Theology:
Theoretical Reflections’, at Global Network for Public Theology
consultation, Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, USA
Esther McIntosh (2006), ‘Scottish and Irish Thought in the Era
of John Macmurray’, at the Research Institute of Irish and
Scottish Studies symposium, University of Aberdeen, UK
Esther McIntosh (2003), ‘Reimaging the Concept of God’, at
Reimagining Feminist Theologies conference, University of Glasgow,
UK
Esther McIntosh (2003), ‘Revisiting the Concept of Sacrifice’,
at Society for the Study of Theology annual conference, University
of Newcastle, UK
Esther McIntosh (2002), ‘The Concept of God in Feminist
Theology’, at Society for the Study of Theology annual conference,
University of Lancaster, UK
Esther McIntosh (2002), ‘Keynote address: Fear in the work of
John Macmurray’, at John Macmurray Fellowship annual conference,
Woodbrooke College, University of Birmingham, UK
Esther McIntosh (2001), ‘The Possibility of Educating the
Emotions’, at Royal Institute of Philosophy annual conference,
University of Manchester, UK
Esther McIntosh (2000), ‘Friendship and Commonsense in
Macmurray’s Philosophy’, at The Centre for the History of Ideas in
Scotland symposium, University of Edinburgh, UK