Tom Greggs
Tom Greggs, DLitt, FRSE, arrived at CTI as director in July 2025 from the University of Aberdeen, where he held The Marischal Chair of Divinity (founded in 1616) and served for over a decade as either Director of Research or Head of Divinity. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Tom undertook studies in Theology at the University of Oxford (where he graduated first in his year) and a PhD in Systematic Theology at the University of Cambridge (where one of his mentors was the late Dan Hardy, first Director of CTI). He holds the higher Doctor of Letters degree for “research that marks an original and substantial contribution to humane learning.” Tom served on the UK government’s panel which assesses university research, and he serves on the World Council of Churches Faith and Order Commission. A prolific author, his most recent books include: Dogmatic Ecclesiology Volume 1; The Church in a World of Religions; Barth and Bonhoeffer as Contributors to Post-Liberal Ecclesiology; and The Breadth of Salvation.
Jonathan Lewis-Jong
The Revd Dr Jonathan Lewis-Jong is an experimental psychologist and Anglican priest. He is Researcher in Psychology of Religion at St Mary's University Twickenham London and an Associate Member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford. He has authored or co-authored over 80 articles in psychology, anthropology, philosophy, and theology. His recent books include Experimenting with Religion (Oxford University Press, 2023) and The Nature of Belief (Oxford University Press, forthcoming, with Eric Schwitzgebel, eds).
Joshua Mauldin
Joshua Mauldin is Associate Director of CTI. He holds a PhD in theological ethics, and he is the author of Barth, Bonhoeffer, and Modern Politics (Oxford University Press, 2021), co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Reinhold Niebuhr (Oxford University Press, 2021), co-editor of The Future of Christian Realism (Lexington, 2023), and co-editor of Theology as Interdisciplinary Inquiry: Learning with and from the Natural and Human Sciences (Eerdmans, 2017). His research has been published in scholarly journals such as the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, Theology Today, Political Theology, and the Journal of Law and Religion.
Valerie Cooper
Dr. Valerie Cooper joins CTI as a senior fellow in the fall of 2025. Holding degrees from Harvard University and Howard University, she will be on loan to CTI from her current faculty appointment at Duke University. The first black woman to earn tenure at Duke Divinity School, she has taught courses there on religion and society, religion and popular culture, and black church studies since 2014. Her book, Word, Like Fire: Maria Stewart, the Bible, and the Rights of African Americans, examines the biblical hermeneutics of Maria Stewart, a pioneering, nineteenth century black woman abolitionist and preacher.
During her time at CTI, Dr. Cooper hopes to convene and participate in conversations and projects to develop theologies of hope and to learn from communities where hope has helped make people more resilient despite the challenges they face.
Amos Yong
Amos Yong is Professor of Theology and Mission at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. His graduate education includes degrees in theology, history, and religious studies from Western Evangelical Seminary (now Portland Seminary), Portland State University, and Boston University; he also holds an undergraduate degree from Bethany University of the Assemblies of God. Licensed as a minister with the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, he has authored or edited dozens of scholarly volumes.