Berkley Center

Elizabeth Phillips is the Public Engagement Fellow of the Woolf Institute, an interfaith institute in Cambridge, England. Previously she taught Christian ethics and political theology in the Cambridge Theological Federation for ten years, and she worked on a three-year pedagogical and ethnographic project convening a course on The Good Life and the Good Society in which Cambridge students learned alongside residents in a high-security prison. She earned her doctorate in theological ethics from the University of Cambridge, her thesis being a theological ethnography of an American Christian Zionist congregation that examined the relationship between eschatology and politics. As the 2020 research fellow at the Margaret Beaufort Institute for Theology, she produced the report "Flourishing Inside?: Catholic Social Thought and Prison Pastoral Work." Other research interests include political theology, eschatology, violence, and peace. In addition to many articles and book chapters, her publications include Political Theology: A Guide for the Perplexed (2012), The Cambridge Companion to Political Theology (2015, co-edited with Craig Hovey), and the T&T Clark Reader in Political Theology (2021, co-edited with Anna Rowlands and Amy Daughton).