Robert MacSwain
Robert MacSwain is an Episcopal priest who teaches theology at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. A native Virginian who grew up in Edenton, North Carolina, he received his Ph.D. from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. A former photographer and an occasional poet, most of his publications are academic in nature. He is the author of Solved by Sacrifice: Austin Farrer, Fideism, and the Evidence of Faith (Peeters, 2013) and the editor or co-editor of six other volumes, including The Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Theology, Aesthetics, and Culture: Responses to the Work of David Brown (Oxford University Press, 2012). In 2016-17 he will be a visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School, exploring the question of whether saints are evidence for God.
Ten Things I Can’t Do Without
- Gravity
- Oxygen
- Food
- Single malt Scotch
- Dark chocolate
- Music
- Art
- The Book of Common Prayer
- Friends
- Family