Professor Beverley Clack

Bev holds a BA Honours Degree in Theology from Westminster College, Oxford (1986); an MSc in Psychoanalytic Theory from University College London (2006); and a PhD in the History and Philosophy of Religion on ‘The Suffering God in the Work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’ from King’s College, London (1991). She taught at the University of Roehampton between 1990 and 2002, and as a Professor in the Philosophy of Religion at Oxford Brookes University between 2002 and 2024. Her publications include How to be a Failure and Still Live Well (2020); Philosophy of Religion: A Critical Introduction, co-authored with Brian R Clack (a 3rd edition was published in 2019); Sex and Death: A Reappraisal of Human Mortality (2002); and Misogyny in the Western Philosophical Tradition (1999). She is currently working on How to Think about Death(And Not Freak Out) for Bloomsbury. Beverley is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and is training to be a Methodist Local Preacher.