The Centre is proud of the many students who have completed PhD studies with us, both in Edinburgh and in its earlier incarnation in Aberdeen. Those marked with a diesis (‡) can be found in hard copy form in the Centre archives, although some have subsequently been digitised.

2020s

• Dingjian Xie (2024), ‘Jingjiao theology: Translation, doctrine, and religious practice in Tang China (618–907)’
• Dongjun Seo (2023), ‘Search for interdenominational co-operation and unity among Korean evangelicals, 1945-1997’
• Jin Meng (2023), ‘Christian embodiment of neo-Confucian active mysticism: a study on Jia Yuming’s spirituality’
• Nico Brice-Bennett (2023), ‘Tanzanian Christianity and socio-political thought in the Nyerere years: A comparative study of the Chagga of Kilimanjaro and the Haya of Kagera, 1954-1985’
• Robert A. Simpson (2023), ‘Gifts from the world: bringing Dumitru Staniloae in conversation with some prominent themes in majority world theologies’
• Lucy Jane Schouten (2022), ‘“Everyone has a story”: Jordanian churches reimagine Middle Eastern Christianity in response to refugees’
• Matheus Reis (2022), ‘Brazilian evangélicos in diaspora in South Florida: identity, ecclesiology and mission’
• Elizabeth Sulammith Marteijn (2022), ‘Between ruins and remnants: religious reinvention and renewal among Christians in West Bank Palestine’
• Jessie Fubara-Manuel (2022), ‘Role of Christian faith for women living with disabilities and HIV in South-South Nigeria’
• Emmanuel Chiwetalu Ossai (2021), ‘The Impact of Religion on Interreligious Peace: Evidence from Zones of Peace in Abuja, Nigeria’
• Jeffrey Grant Cannon (2021), ‘Church of Scotland periodicals and the shaping of Scottish opinion regarding South African apartheid and the Central African Federation, c.1912–c.1965’
• Karl Vincent Dahlfred (2021), ‘Conservative in theology, liberal in spirit: modernism and the American Presbyterian Mission in Thailand, 1891-1941’
• Calida Hang Yan Chu (2020), ‘Public theology in post-1997 Hong Kong: the perspectives of Anglican theologians, scholars in Sino-Christian theology, and evangelical theologians, and a critical engagement with Stanley Hauerwas’s theology’
• Tore Johnsen (2020), ‘Contribution of Northern Sami everyday Christianity to a cosmologically-oriented Christian theology’
• Daniel Qin (2020), ‘Evolution of evangelical socio-political approaches in contemporary China (1980s-2010s)’
• Alexandra Kate Douglas (2020), ‘SIM – strengthened through diversity? An examination of the origins and effects of cultural diversity within a multi-national Christian mission agency 1975-2015’
• Andrew Ong (2020), ‘Toward a Chinese American evangelical theology: The promise of neo-Calvinism’

2010s

• William Coppedge (2019), ‘African literacies and Western oralities? Communication complexities, the crality movement, and the materialities of Christianity in Uganda’
• Hoon Song (2019), ‘Diverse theological approaches to a divided land: a critical assessment of liberal and conservative South Korean protestant thinking on the problem of a divided Korea’
• Richard John Reeve (2018), ‘Resourcing the local church: Attitudes among Mozambican evangelicals towards economic dependency and self-reliance’
• Stephen Halley Donoho (2018), ‘“[A] humbled China will be more open to receive the salvation of Jesus Christ!”: Two church periodicals’ views on the Cing-Japanese war and Japanese-Táiwanese war’
• Dhinakaran R. J. Prasad Phillips (2018), ‘Evaluating contemporary Protestant missions to children at risk in South India: investigating foundations and principles for future Christian mission’
• David Wilson McMahon (2018), ‘Analysis of the reception and appropriation of the Bible by Manobo Christians in Central Mindanao, Philippines’
• Sara Afshari (2017), ‘Reception of Christian television in contemporary Iran: An analysis of audience interactions and negotiations’
• Amos Bongadu Chewachong (2017), ‘Intra-African Pentecostalism and the dynamics of power: the Living Faith Church worldwide (Winners’ Chapel) in Cameroon, 1996-2016’
• Christopher Sabanal (2016), ‘Emerging Critical Social Awareness in Evangelical Theological Pilgrimages in the Philippines’
• Adam Terrence Shreve (2016), ‘Framing the sacred: an analysis of religious films in Zimbabwe’
• David C. Kirkpatrick (2015), ‘C. René Padilla: Integral Mission and the Reshaping of Global Evangelicalism’
• Corey L. Williams (2015), ‘Interreligious Encounter in a West African City: A Study of Multiple Religious Belonging and Identity Among the Yorùbá of Ogbómòsó, Nigeria’
• Eric L. Williams (2015), ‘More than tongues can tell: significations in Black Pentecostal thought’
• Andrew Kaiser (2015), ‘Encountering China: the evolution of Timothy Richard’s missionary thought (1870-1891)’
• Jason Alan Carter (2014), ‘Book of Job through Central African eyes: theodicy, suffering and hope amongst Fang Protestant Christians in Equatorial Guinea’
• Michael Perry Tettey (2014), ‘Pentecostalism and Empowerment: A Study of the Church of Pentecost and International Central Gospel Church’
• Duane Alexander Miller (2014), ‘Living among the breakage: Contextual theology-making and ex-Muslim Christians’
• Kang-Hee Han (2013), ‘Empires, missions, and education: Mission schools and resistance movements in Modern Korea, 1885-1919’
• Kofi Asare (2013), ‘Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity in video films: Audience reception and appropriation in Ghana and the UK’
• Jaekeun Lee (2013), ‘American Southern Presbyterians and the formation of presbyterianism in Honam, Korea, 1892-1940: Traditions, missionary encounters, and transformations’
• Marina Xiaojing Wang (2013), ‘Church unity movement in early twentieth-century China: Cheng Jingyi and the Church of Christ in China’
• Sangdo Choi (2012), ‘Placing and displacing martyrdom: martyr-making in the Protestant Church in Korea’ ‡
• Israel Adelani Akanji (2011), ‘Towards a theology of conflict transformation: A study of religious conflict in contemporary Nigerian society’ ‡
• Daniel Sung Ho Ahn (2011), ‘Term question in Korea 1882-1911, and its Chinese roots: A study in continuity and divergence’
• Elijah Oko Obinna (2011), ‘Negotiating culture: Christianity and the Ogo society in Amasiri, Nigeria’
• Thomas Winfield Higgins (2010), ‘Prophet, Priest, King in Colonial Africa: Anglican and Colonial Political Responses to African Independent Churches in Nigeria and Kenya, 1918-1960’
• Mark Thomas Bowie Laing (2010), ‘“Calling of the church to mission and to unity”: Bishop Lesslie Newbigin and the integration of the International Missionary Council with the World Council of Churches’

2000s

• Janice Angelia McLean (2009), ‘Living their faith: Identity and mission among West Indian immigrants in Pentecostal churches in New York City and London’
• Martin Jacob Lunde (2009), ‘Approach to medical missions: Dr. Neil Macvicar and the Victoria Hospital, Lovedale, South Africa, circa 1900-1950’
• Anderson Harris Mithra Jeremiah (2009), ‘Lived religion among the rural Paraiyar Christians of South India: An ethnographic study of the social and religious worldviews in Thulasigramam’
• Chung Yoube Ha (2009), ‘Migration old and new: Accepting diversity in creating a Catholic community in Youngnak Presbyterian Church’
• Victor I. Ezigbo (2008), ‘Contextualizing the Christ-Event: A Christological Study of the Interpretations and Appropriations of Jesus Christ in Nigerian Christianity’
• Elijah M. Brown (2008), ‘The road to peace: The role of the Southern Sudanese church in communal stabilisation and national resolution’
• Adrian P. Bird (2008), ‘M.M. Thomas: Theological Signposts for the Emergence of Dalit Theology’
• Mark R. Gornik (2008), ‘World made global: African Christianity in New York City’ ‡
• Heneli T Niumeitolu (2007), ‘The State and the Church, the State of the Church in Tonga’
• Warren R. Beattie (2006), ‘Transformational missiology – an emerging trend in evangelical missiology in Asia: an analysis with reference to selected Asian writers’ ‡
• Siu Fai Mak (2006), ‘A contemporary Christian response to ancestor practice in China’ ‡
• Maurice Alwyn Sween (2006), ‘Chinese protestant theologies of social ministry in Nationalist Taiwan, with special emphasis on Eden Social Welfare Foundation and Liu Hsia’ ‡
• Emma Wild-Wood (2005), ‘Migration and identity: The development of the Anglican Church in North-East Congo (DRC), 1960-2000’
• Stephen R. Goodwin (2005), ‘Fractured land, healing nations: a contextual analysis of the role of religious faith sodalities towards peace-building in Bosnia-Herzegovina’ ‡
• Thia Cooper (2004), ‘Struggling toward a new earth: the integration of faith and development practice within Christian Aid, with particular reference to a Brazilian partner, Centro de Estudos e Ação Social’ ‡
• Chun-pang Vincent Lau (2004), ‘From persecution to partnership: a critical analysis of the relationship of Baptists in Hong Kong with the Colonial Government in the post-World War II era’ ‡ 
• Ábrahám Kovács (2003), ‘The history of the Free church of Scotland’s Mission to the Jews in Budapest and  its impact on the Hungarian Reformed Church: 1841-1914’ ‡
• Lazarus Phiri (2003), ‘The Brethren in Christ Mission in Zambia, 1906-1978: a historical study of western missionary leadership patterns and the emergence of Tonga Church leaders’ ‡
• Thomas Moore Kisitu (2002), ‘A historical study of conflicts in Busoga Diocese, Church of Uganda (1972-1999)’ ‡
• Kirsteen Jean Murray (2002), ‘Missionary Kingdoms of the South Pacific? The involvement of missionaries from the London Missionary Society in law making at Tahiti. 1795-1847’ ‡
• Myung-Woo Park (2001), ‘Building a local Christian theology in the context of Korean religious pluralism: a critical analysis of the theology of Ryu Yŏngmo, 1890-1981’ ‡ 
• Diane Barbara Stinton (2001), ‘Jesus of Africa: voices of contemporary African Christology from selected textual and oral sources’ ‡
• Kenneth Fleming (2000), ‘Asian Christian theologians in dialogue with Buddhism: a study of the writing of Kosuke Koyama, Choan-Seng Song and Aloysius Pieris’ ‡

1990s

• Raphael Mwita Akiri (1999), ‘The growth of Christianity in Ugogo and Ukaguru (Central Tanzania): a socio-historical analysis of the role of indigenous agents 1876-1933’ ‡
• David A. Edwards (1998), ‘A study in paradox: some contradictions in Anglican attitudes to mission in the mid-nineteenth century as embodied in the life of Francis T. McDougall and his work in the Borneo Mission’ ‡
• Sophia Marriage (1998), ‘The local church and incarnational theology: the convergence of inculturation and liberation in two Roman Catholic dioceses – Zomba (Malawi) and Infanta (The Philippines)’ ‡
• Esther Moraa Mombo (1998), ‘A historical and cultural analysis of the position of Abaluyia women in Kenyan Quaker Christianity; 1902-1979’ ‡
• Rodney H. Orr (1998), ‘African American missionaries to East Africa 1900-1926: a study in the ethnic reconnection of the gospel’ ‡
• Samuel Y. Pang (1998), ‘From self-development to human solidarity. A critical study on the dialogical theology of “Inter-” cultures’ ‡
• Kirkley C. Sands (1998), ‘The Anglican Church and Bahamian cultural identity: the role of Church-sponsored education, prayer book liturgy and Anglo-Catholic rituals in the development of Bahamian culture1784-1900’ ‡
• Kenneth David Scott (1998), ‘Privileged Peru: the Israelites of the New Covenant’ ‡
• Timothy C. Tennant (1998), ‘Building Christianity on Indian foundations: the theological legacy of Brahmabandav Upadhyay (1861-1907)’ ‡
• Emon Paul Balisky (1997), ‘Wolaitta evangelists: a study of religious innovation in Southern Ethiopia, 1937-1975’ ‡
• Ian Wilson Henderson (1997), ‘Contextualization of Protestant church liturgical gestures among the Kankana-ey people, Benguet, Northern Philippines’ ‡
• Charles Gyang-Duah (1996), ‘The Scottish mission factor in the development of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana: 1917-1957’ ‡
• Moonjang Lee (1996), ‘The historical Jesus and Mokmin hermeneutics with reference to the description of Jesus in Minjung theology in Korea’ ‡
• Hiroshi Miura (1996), ‘Scottish missions to Japan, 1874-1901’ ‡
• Ben Michael Carter (1995), ‘A study of Bethany Fellowship as an example of North American evangelical missions’ ‡
• Jehu J. Hanciles (1995), ‘The Sierra Leone native pastorate church (1850-1890): an experiment in ecclesiastical independence’ ‡
• J. Nelson Jennings (1995), ‘Theology in Japan: Takakura Tokutaro (1885-1934)’ ‡
• Ian Douglas Maxwell (1995), ‘Alexander Duff and the theological and philosophical background to the General Assembly’s mission in Calcutta to 1840’ ‡
• Samuel Brefo Adubofour (1994), ‘Evangelical Parachurch Movements in Ghanaian Christianity: c. 1950-early 1990s’ ‡
• Allison Mary Howell (1994), ‘The religious itinerary of a people: the impact of the Christian gospel (WƐCHOŋA) on the Kasena of Ghana from 1906-1992’ ‡
• John G. Kayser (1994), ‘Criteria and predictors of missionary cross cultural competence in selected North American Evangelical missions’ ‡
• Cindy Perry (1994), ‘The history of the expansion of Protestant Christianity among the Nepali diaspora’ ‡
• Donald Robert Morrison Smith (1994), ‘A survey and theological analysis of the spiritual and Pentecostal evangelical churches in Freetown, Sierra Leone, with special emphasis on the influences of the indigenous religious pneumatology’ ‡
• Nelson Osamu Hayashida (1993), ‘The significance of dreams and visions among members of the Baptist churches of Zambia with special reference to the Manyika Baptist Association and to selected urban areas’ ‡
• Obed Ndeya Obadiah Kealotswe (1993), ‘Doctrine and ritual in an African Independent Church in Botswana: a study of the beliefs, rituals and practices of the Head Mountain of God Apostolic Church in Zion’ ‡
• John C. Bennett (1992), ‘Charles Simeon and the Evangelical Anglican Missionary Movement — A Study of Voluntaryism and Church-Mission Tensions’ ‡
• Sung-il Choi (1992), ‘John Ross (1842-1915) and the Korean Protestant Church and the first Korean Bible and its relation to the Protestant origins in Korea’ ‡
• Klaus Müller (1992), ‘Peacemaker. Missionary practice of Georg Friedrich Vicedom in New Guinea. The making of a missionary theologian’ ‡
• K. Effa Ababio (1991), ‘Conflict, identity and co-operation – the relations of the Christian church with the traditional, colonial and national states in Ghana with special reference to the period 1916-1966’ ‡
• William Mitchell (1991), ‘The appropriation of the Quechua language by the Church and the Christianisation of Peru in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries’ ‡
• Nalini Arles (1990), ‘The understanding of pastoral care and counselling in the Church of South India, with special reference to the work of the Christian Counselling Centre, Vellore’ ‡
• Siga Arles (1990), ‘Theological education in relation to the identification of the task of mission and the development of ministries in India: 1947 to 1987 with special reference to the Church of South India’ ‡

1980s

• B. Violet James (1989), ‘American Protestant missions and the Vietnam war’ ‡
• Robert L. Kennedy (1989), ‘Best intentions: contacts between German Pietists and Anglo-American Evangelicals 1945-54’ ‡
• Robert L. Kennedy (1988), ‘Turning westward. Anglo-American Evangelical and Pietist interactions through 1954’ ‡
• Gerishon N. M. Kirika (1988), ‘Aspects of the religion of the Gikuyu of Central Kenya before and after the European contact, with special reference to prayer and sacrifice’ ‡
• Samuel S. Simbandumwe (1988), ‘Israel in two African prophet movements: an inquiry into the Mount Zion-Jerusalem concept as reflected in the aspects of hymns and prayer-songs of the Kimbangu and Shembe prophet movements’ ‡
• Philippa J. Baylis (1987), ‘Andrew Lang and the study of religion in the Victorian era with special reference to his high god theory’ ‡
• Murumba Jem Oguogho (1987), ‘A critique of African liberation theologies from the perspective of Latin American liberation theology and North American black theology’ ‡
• Theodore Paul Christian Gabriel (1986), ‘Inter-religious conflict in India: the dynamics of Hindu-Muslim relations in North Malabar 1498-1947’ ‡
• Mark Onesosan Ogharaerumi (1986), ‘The translation of the Bible into Yoruba, Igbo and Isekiri languages of Nigeria, with special reference to the contributions of mother-tongue speakers’ ‡
• Donald John Mackay (1985), ‘The once and future kingdom: Kongo models of renewal in the Church at Ngombe Lutete and in the Kimbanguist Movement’ ‡
• John Mason Hitchen (1984), ‘Training ‘Tamate’: formation of the nineteenth century missionary worldview: the case of James Chalmers’ ‡
• Aaron Chikwendu Owoh (1984), ‘Church growth and self-reliance in Zambia: the indigenous United Church in Zambia’ ‡
• Ismail bin Ab-Rahman (1983), ‘Inter-religious controversy in India; the interpretation of Jesus in theworks of Rammohun Roy and Sayyid Ahmad Khan’ ‡
• Kwame Bediako (1983), ‘Identity and integration: an enquiry into the nature and problems of theological indigenization in selected early Hellenistic and modern African writers’ ‡
• Amran Bin Kasimin (1983), ‘Religion and social change amongst the indigenous peoples of the Malay peninsula’ ‡
• Gerald John Pillay (1983), ‘A historico-theological study of Pentecostalism as a phenomenon within a South African community’ ‡
• Jonathon James Bonk (1982), ‘“All things to all men”? Protestant missionary identification in theory and in practice, 1860-1910, with special reference to the London Missionary Society in Central Africa and Central China’
• J. R. Cabbage (1982), ‘Order and chaos in Mende religion’ ‡
• Daniel Iwayo Ilega (1982), ‘Gideon M. Urhobo and the God’s Kingdom society in Nigeria’ ‡
• Cyril Chukwunqnyerem Okorqcha (1982), ‘Salvation in Igbo religious experience: its relation on Igbo Christianity’ ‡
• David A. Shank (1980), ‘A prophet of modern times: the thought of William Wade Harris, West African precursor of the Reign of Christ’ ‡

1960s–1970s

• Michael Bame Bame (1978), ‘Pastoral care and the ontic reality of the incorporeal components of man’s being’ ‡
• Samuel Onwo Onyeidu (1978), ‘The African lay agents of the Church Missionary Society in West Africa 1810-1850’ ‡
• William John Roxborough (1978), ‘Thomas Chalmers and the mission of the Church with special reference to the rise of the missionary movement in Scotland’ ‡
• Chee Pang Choong (1977), ‘Doctrinal and exegetical issues in the Hindu-Christian debate during the nineteenth century Bengal renaissance with special reference to St. Paul’s teaching on the religions of the nations’ ‡
• James Leland Cox (1977), ‘The development of A. G. Hogg’s theology in relation to non-Christian faith: its significance for the Tambaram meeting of the International Missionary Council, 1938’ ‡
• David Chidiebele Okeke (1977), ‘Policy and practice of the Church Missionary Society in Igboland 1857-1929’ ‡
• Samuel Prempeh (1977), ‘The Basel and Bremen missions and their successors in the Gold Coast and Togoland, 1914-1926: a study in Protestant missions and the First World War’ ‡
• Gabre Ammanuel Mikre-Sellassie (1976), ‘Church and missions in Ethiopia in relation to the Italian war and occupation and the Second World War’ ‡
• Godwin Onyemaechi Mgbechi Tasie (1969), ‘Christianity in the Niger Delta, 1864-1918’ ‡
• J. M. Orr (1967), ‘The contribution of Scottish Missions to the rise of responsible churches in India’ ‡