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The Lincoln Theological Institute for Religion and Society (Lincoln Theological Institute), established in 1997, is a research centre at the University of Manchester, UK. Its research focuses on theology, faith and society.

History
The Lincoln Theological Institute's first director, appointed in 1997, was Martyn Percy. He left in 2004 to become Principal at Ripon College Cuddesdon. He was succeeded by Peter Manley Scott. In 2004, the Lincoln Theological Institute moved to the University of Manchester, where it is now a research centre within the Department of Religions and Theology.

The Lincoln Theological Institute owns Chad Varah House on Drury Lane, Lincoln, the building occupied by Lincoln Theological College until it closed in 1995.

Staff

 * Martyn Percy, director, 1997-2004
 * Peter Manley Scott, director, 2004-present
 * Ian Jones, 2000-2007
 * Stefan Skrimshire, 2008-2009
 * Susannah Cornwall, 2011-2013

The Lincoln Theological Institute also has a number of affiliated honorary research fellows and doctoral students.

Research projects
The Lincoln Theological Institute's research has taken place across a number of projects focusing on themes including place, location, habitation and ecology; global threats and powers; religion and civil society; technology, limits and transformation; power and institutions (including the Church); liberation, political, ecological and public theologies; and culture - including religious cultures - and sources of hope.

Major projects have included:
 * Women and Ordination
 * Hospital Chaplaincy
 * Divinity After Empire
 * Future Ethics: Climate Change, Political Action and the Future of the Human
 * Remoralizing Britain
 * Belonging and Heimat
 * Systematic Theology for a Changing Climate
 * The Common Good
 * A Shaking of the Foundations? Reconsidering Civil Society
 * Intersex, Identity, Disability: Issues for Public Policy, Healthcare and the Church

Publications

 * Hospital Chaplaincy: Modern, Dependable?, Helen Orchard, Sheffield Academic Press, 2000
 * Women and Priesthood in the Church of England: Ten Years On, Ian Jones, Church House Publishing, 2004
 * Women and Ordination in the Christian Churches: International Perspectives, Ian Jones, Janet Wootton and Kirsty Thorpe (eds.), T&T Clark, 2008
 * Remoralizing Britain, Peter Scott, Chris Baker and Elaine Graham (eds.), Continuum, 2009
 * Future Ethics: Climate Change and Apocalyptic Imagination, Stefan Skrimshire (ed.), Continuum, 2010
 * Decolonizing the Body of Christ: Theology and Theory After Empire?, David Joy and Joseph Duggan (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
 * At Home in the Future: Place and Belonging in a Changing Europe, John Rodwell and Peter Scott (eds.), LIT Verlag, 2013