Clinton Collister

Before moving to England, Clinton Collister taught English at Rochester University, Michigan and studied Theology at The University of St Andrews. Clinton is currently a PhD Candidate in Christian Theology whose research centers on Theology and Literature and historical Theology. His doctoral research focuses on the construction of theology through poetry, particularly theological anthropology and eschatology, in the works of T.S. Eliot, John Heath-Stubbs, and Geoffrey Hill. In readings informed by Charles Taylor and Thomas Pfau’s genealogies of modernity, Clinton interprets theological responses to secularism in conversation with the Christian Platonist tradition, especially as exemplified in the theology of Thomas Aquinas and Augustine.

In Autumn of 2021, he joined the staff of Pusey House, Oxford, where he teaches classes in Christian Doctrine and Ethics, and where he serves as a Research Associate at The Center for Theology, Law, and Culture. In this role, Clinton’s research and publications center on the theological anthropology of E.L. Mascall and John Neville Figgis. 

Since beginning his doctoral studies, Clinton has served as an editor for Nashotah House Press, and edited new editions of theological works, such as Charles Chapman Grafton: Selected Writings (2022) and John Neville Figgis’s The Gospel and Human Needs (2025). He also serves as an editor for The Cranmer Theological Journal.

Before moving to England, Clinton Collister taught English at Rochester University, Michigan and studied Theology at The University of St Andrews. Clinton is currently a PhD Candidate in Christian Theology whose research centers on Theology and Literature and historical Theology. His doctoral research focuses on the construction of theology through poetry, particularly theological anthropology and eschatology, in the works of T.S. Eliot, John Heath-Stubbs, and Geoffrey Hill. In readings informed by Charles Taylor and Thomas Pfau’s genealogies of modernity, Clinton interprets theological responses to secularism in conversation with the Christian Platonist tradition, especially as exemplified in the theology of Thomas Aquinas and Augustine.

In Autumn of 2021, he joined the staff of Pusey House, Oxford, where he teaches classes in Christian Doctrine and Ethics, and where he serves as a Research Associate at The Center for Theology, Law, and Culture. In this role, Clinton’s research and publications center on the theological anthropology of E.L. Mascall and John Neville Figgis. 

Since beginning his doctoral studies, Clinton has served as an editor for Nashotah House Press, and edited new editions of theological works, such as Charles Chapman Grafton: Selected Writings (2022) and John Neville Figgis’s The Gospel and Human Needs (2025). He also serves as an editor for The Cranmer Theological Journal.