Marion Carson lives in Glasgow, Scotland, where she serves as Chaplain to Glasgow CIty Mission. Formerly a psychiatric nurse, she taught Biblical Studies and Pastoral Care for many years at International Christian College in Glasgow.
Master of Arts (University of Glasgow), Bachelor of Divinity ( University of London), Doctor of Philosophy (University of Glasgow)
Marion Carson lives in Glasgow, Scotland, where she serves as Chaplain to Glasgow CIty Mission. Formerly a psychiatric nurse, she taught Biblical Studies and Pastoral Care for many years at International Christian College in Glasgow.
My research interest is in the interface between Biblical Hermeneutics and Pastoral Theology. In particular I am interested in how the Bible is used in reflecting on topics such as mental health and ill health, human trafficking and addictions, discipleship and spiriituality.
2021 with Ruth H. Robb Walk into Freedom: Christian Outreach to People involved in Commercial Sexual Exploitation Burlington: People’s Seminary Press
2016 Human Trafficking, the Bible, and the Church: An Interdisciplinary Study Eugene, OR: Cascade (published in UK and Europe by SCM Press in 2017)
2015 Setting the Captives Free: The Bible and Human Trafficking Eugene, OR: Cascade
2008 The Pastoral Care of People with Mental Health Problems London: SPCK
2002 with Ruth Robb Working the Streets: A Guide for Christians engaged in Outreach to Prostitutes. (Bognor Regis: New Wine Publishing)
“Moral Discernment in the Abraham and Sarah Narrative: Observations for Contemporary Pilgrims” Journal of European Baptist Studies 23 (2023), 47-64.
“Suffering, Perseverance and Hope: Two Views of Romans 5:1-5 and their Implications for Pastoral Care” Journal of Baptist Theology in Context 8 (2023), 30-49.
“Discipling Churches: Reflections on Jesus’ Prayer in John 17” in Seeds of the Church: Towards an Ecumenical Baptist Ecclesiology (eds) Henk Bakker, Steven Harmon, Beth Newman, Teun van der Leer Eugene: Cascade 2022, 109-118.
“Chaplaincy at Glasgow City Mission” in Trajectories in Chaplaincy (ed Neil E. Allison Glasgow: Baptist Union of Scotland 2022, 61-65
“Real People, Real Lives: Biblical Perspectives on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking” in (ed Dan Pratt) Slavery Free Communities: Emerging Theologies and Faith Responses to Modern Slavery London: SCM 2021, 57-77.
With Duncan A.P. Angus “Mental Illness and Moral Responsibility: A Clinical Psychiatric Perspective” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 12 (2020), 191-211.
“Resilient Readers: Spiritual Growth and the Bible” Journal of European Baptist Studies 19 (2019), 83-94.
“In Whose Interests? Ante-Bellum Abolitionism, the Bible, and Contemporary Christian Ethics” Perichoresis 16 (2018), 41-60.
“Utrpeni, naděje a svatost: Dva pohledy na Ř 5,1-5 a jejich dűsledky propastoraci” Telogicka Reflexe 24 (2018), 57-68.
“Sheer Grace: Psalm 88, Depression and the Dark Night of the Spirit” Communio Viatorum 59 (2017), 160-176.
“The Bible, Character Ethics, and Same-Sex Relationships” Baptistic Theologies 9:1 (2017), 78-91.
“Circumcision of the Heart: Extrinsic and Intrinsic Religiosity in Romans 1–5” Expository Times 128 (2017), 376-84.
“Feed My Lambs: Some Pastoral Implications of a Biblical Metaphor” Baptistic Theologies 17:2 (2015), 10-24.
“Grown Up Religion: Polemic and Pastoral Practice in Paul’s Letter to the Galatians” Expository Times 127 (2015), 105-113.
“Conversation on a Train: Reflections on the Bible and Christian Discipleship” Journal of European Baptist Studies 15 (2014), 58-70.
“Difficult Texts: Colossians 3.22 – slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything” Theology 117 (2014), 203-205.
“The Harlot, the Beast and the Sex Trafficker: Reflections on some Recent Feminist Interpretations of Revelation 17-18” Expository Times 122 (2011), 218-227.
“Deep Heat and Bandages? Historical Criticism, Bounded Indeterminacy, and Pastoral Care" Evangelical Quarterly 82 (2010), 340-352.
“Loving, Discernment and Distance: Pastoral Care in Schizophrenia” Journal of Pastoral Care and Counselling 60 (2006), 227-239.
“Fine Madness: Psychosis, Faith Communities and the Rehabilitation of the Christian Apocalypse” Expository Times 117 (2006), 360-365.
“For Now we Live: Paul’s Pastoral Leadership in 1 Thessalonians” Themelios 30 (2005), 23-41.
“Two Sermons” in The Journal of the College of Preachers 2005, 105-6.
(Numerous book reviews)
Books:
2023 Freedom from Exploitation: Christian Responses to Modern Day Slavery Pasadena: William Carey Publishing (booklet)
2021 with Ruth H. Robb Walk into Freedom: Christian Outreach to People involved in Commercial Sexual Exploitation Burlington: People’s Seminary Press
2016 Human Trafficking, the Bible, and the Church: An Interdisciplinary Study Eugene, OR: Cascade (published in UK and Europe by SCM Press in 2017)
2015 Setting the Captives Free: The Bible and Human Trafficking Eugene, OR: Cascade
2008 The Pastoral Care of People with Mental Health Problems London: SPCK
Book Chapters:
“Suffering, Perseverance and Hope: Two Views of Romans 5:1-5 and their Implications for Pastoral Care” Journal of Baptist Theology in Context 8 (2023), 30-49
“Discipling Churches: Reflections on Jesus’ Prayer in John 17” in Seeds of the Church: Towards an Ecumenical Baptist Ecclesiology (eds) Henk Bakker, Steven Harmon, Beth Newman, Teun van der Leer Eugene: Cascade 2022, 109-118.
“Real People, Real Lives: Biblical Perspectives on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking” in (ed Dan Pratt) Slavery Free Communities: Emerging Theologies and Faith Responses to Modern Slavery London: SCM 2021, 57-77.
Society of Biblical Literature
British New Testament Society
British and Irish Association of Pastoral Theology
BWA Theological Education Commission
International Christian Alliance on Prostitution
Choral Singing