Oliver Crisp is the Professor of Analytic Theology and Co-Director of the Logos Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology with Professor Andrew Torrance. He joined the Divinity School in the autumn of 2019, having previously taught at Fuller Theological Seminary in California (2011-2019), the University of Bristol (2006-2011), and St Andrews (2002-2004). He has also held postdoctoral research fellowships at the Center for Philosophy of Religion, University of Notre Dame (2004-5; and again in 2019), and the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton (2008-9).

He is best known for his work in analytic theology, and is a founding editor of the Journal of Analytic Theology, and a series co-editor (with Professor Michael Rea) of the Oxford Studies in Analytic Theology. He also co-founded the annual Los Angeles Theology Conference (LATC) series with Professor Fred Sanders (2013-2023), and the Scottish Dogmatics Conference (SDC) series with Professor Paul Nimmo, hosted at the Universities of Aberdeen (2024) and St Andrews (2026). The next conference is planned for 2028 in Aberdeen. Like the LATC, the proceedings of the SDC series are published by Zondervan Academic.

Professor Crisp has been involved in a number of major grant-funded research projects. He was Principal Investigator for the $2m grant "Analytic Theology for Theological Formation" at Fuller Theological Seminary (2015-2018), and co-investigator for the $1.5m "On Human Natures: Psychological Science in the Service of Theology" grant (2018-2021), working alongside Professor Justin Barrett and Rebecca Sok of Blueprint 1543, and Dr Kutter Callaway at Fuller Seminary. Crisp has also been a grantee of the BioLogos Foundation ($102k) for work on the doctrine of original sin (2013-14). He was a participant in the Templeton-funded "Philosophy, Theology, and Psychology of Christian Trust in God" grant (2019-2022), working with PIs Daniel McKaughan at Boston College, Teresa Morgan at Oxford, and Michael Pace at Chapman University. Alongside Dr Danielle Jansen he currently leads a Templeton-funded $2 million project entitled "Godless Religion" (2026-2029). This grant follows on from a planning grant on the same topic that ran from 2024-2026. (The project website can be found here: https://godless-religion.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/.)

His public-facing work includes participation in the US PBS-syndicated "Closer to Truth" series (https://closertotruth.com) and the UK-based Timeline Theological Videos series (https://stjohnstimeline.hymnsam.co.uk). He has also written for various popular outlets like Christian Century and Christianity Today and been interviewed for blogs and vlogs such as You Have Permission, Homebrewed Christianity, Research on Religion, London Lyceum, and The Christian Humanist.

Professor Crisp received degrees in Divinity and Law from the University of Aberdeen (BD, MTh, LLM), Jurisprudence from Durham University (MJur), and Philosophy of Religion from the University of London (PhD). He also holds higher doctorates from Aberdeen (DLitt) and St Andrews (DD).

Analytic theology, philosophy of religion, systematic and historical theology. Prof Crisp also has a developing interest in legal theory.