Revd Dr Alex Irving is Lecturer and Tutor in Theology at St Mellitus College. Before joining SMC, Alex served a curacy in the Diocese of Norwich, during which time he was also a visiting lecturer at the London School of Theology, at which he also served as a member of the board of governors. Alex is married to Sophia and they have two young children, Rachael and Teddy.

​​​​​​Books

• T.F. Torrance’s Reconstruction of Natural Theology: Christ and Cognition (Lexington, 2019).

• God, Freedom and the Body of Christ: Toward a Theology of the Church (Wipf and Stock/Cascade, forthcoming, 2020).

• We Believe: Exploring the Nicene Faith. Nottingham: Apollos, 2022.

• (ed.),The Doctrine of the Incarnation Opened: An Abridgement of the Christological Sermons of Edward Irving. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2021.

• Act and Being: The Dynamism of God in the Theology of Thomas F. Torrance (under contract. London: T&T Clark, 2026)

Selected Journal Articles

• ‘One Word, Many Wordings: The Inspiration of Scripture in its Christological and Pneumatological Dimension of Depth’, Expository Times, 2019.

• ‘“Grant me Grace”: Alternative Visions for Vernacular Theology and Lay Devotion in Richard Caister and Nicholas Love’, Evangelical Quarterly, 90.2 (2019), 142-163.

• ‘The Eucharist and the Church in the Thought of Henri de Lubac and Rowan Williams: Sacramental Ecclesiology and the Place of the Church in the World’, Anglican Theological Review. 100.2 (2018), 267-290.

• ‘The Motherhood of the Church in Henri de Lubac and John Calvin’, International Journal for the Study of the Church, 18.2 (2018), 1-19.

• ‘The Nature and Purpose of Reason in Christian Theology: The 1952 Exchange between Thomas F. Torrance and Brand Blanshard’, Theology in Scotland, 25.1 (2018), 19-34.

• ‘The Hypostatic Union as Normative over the Relation of God’s Self-Revelation and Human Cognition in the Thought of T.F. Torrance’, Irish Theological Quarterly , 83.2 (2018), 1-19.

• ‘Fr. Georges Florovksy and T.F. Torrance on the Doctrine of Creation’, St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 61.3 (2017) 301-322.

• ‘Does the Epistemological Relevance of the Spirit Constitute the End for Natural Theology? A Response to Paul Molnar in Dialogue with T.F. Torrance’, Trinity Journal, 38 (2017), 225-245.

• The Person of Jesus Christ as the Normative Basis for the Doctrine of Creation: Re-Envisioning T.F. Torrance’s Christocentric Doctrine of Creation’, Evangelical Quarterly 88.4 (2017), 349-366.

• Re-orientating “Ontological Receptivity”: Grounding the Son’s Receptivity to the Human Jesus on Passive Generation', under review with Scottish Journal of Theology.

• A Critical Assessment of Bruce L. McCormack's Christological Proposal', Scottish Journal of Theology (Dec 2023), 1-14.

Entries in Reference Volumes

• ‘T.F. Torrance’ in Dictionary of Christian Apologetics and Their Critics, ed. R. Stewart and D. Geivett (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming, 2020).

Selected Book Reviews

• ‘Review of Time and Word: Figural Reading of the Christian Scriptures, by Ephraim Radner’, International Journal of Systematic Theology 21.2 (2019), 225-228.

• ‘Review of Rationality as Virtue: Towards a Philosophical Theology by Lydia Schumacher’, International Journal of Systematic Theology 19.2 (2017), 220-223.

• ‘Review of Thomas F. Torrance and the Church Fathers: A Reformed, Evangelical and Ecumenical Reconstruction of the Patristic Tradition, by Jason Robert Radcliffe’, St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 61.2 (2017), 239-246.

• DPhil, The University of Oxford (2017) MTh, The London School of Theology (2014)

• Dogmatic Theology
• Church
• Christology
• Creeds
• Creation