The Oxford Handbook of Omnipresence

The idea that something can be present at every place has engendered much discussion both in the past and at present. Typically, omnipresence is thought to be a divine attribute, but the question as to how something can be omnipresent has not been historically confined to the status of a divine being. The Oxford Handbook of Omnipresence offers an insight into historical accounts of omnipresence and its developments in ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary thought. It further widens the study of omnipresence by including less widely studied strands of thought on this topic from mystical, process theological, feminist theological, and phenomenological perspectives. Additionally, whilst the study of omnipresence has typically focused on Christian thinkers, the volume broadens the range of voices on this attribute further by including Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist, Sanskrit, and Donghak accounts. The Handbook provides an introduction to the main facets of omnipresence, both historical and contemporary, and opens up new avenues for research that are yet to be fully explored.

Anna Marmodoro, Leonard and Elizabeth Eslick Professor of Philosophy, Saint Louis University, Damiano Migliorini, Independent scholar, , Ben Page, Master of Divinity, Eton College

Anna Marmodoro is the Leonard and Elizabeth Eslick Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University and an Honorary Professor of Philosophy at Durham University, where she held the Chair of Metaphysics between 2016 and 2024. Previously she was a Junior and then Official Fellow in Philosophy at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. Marmodoro specializes primarily in ancient philosophy and contemporary metaphysics. Her latest books are Properties in Ancient Metaphysics (2023) and Forms and Structure in Plato’s Metaphysics (2021). She is currently working on a new monograph titled: Parmenidean Essentialism. She is also the co-editor of Dialogoi: Ancient Philosophy Today.

Damiano Migliorini specialises in three main research areas: analytical philosophy of religion, Trinitarian theology, and gender studies. He has published monographs, edited books, and journal articles in all these areas. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the Università degli Studi di Verona (Italy) in 2019, and his Habilitation (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) in Theoretical Philosophy in 2023. He is currently an affiliated researcher at ISSR ’Italo Mancini’ of Università degli Studi di Urbino while also teaching philosophy at high school level. He is also a member of the editorial board of two academic journals: Segni e Comprensione and Nuovo Giornale di Filosofia della Religione.

Ben Page is a master of Divinity at Eton College and a retained lecturer in Philosophy at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. He primarily works on a diverse range of topics in philosophy of religion and metaphysics, although has published in other areas such as medieval philosophy and meta-ethics. He is the author of Modelling the Divine (forthcoming), and his research has appeared in Philosophical Studies, Faith and Philosophy, Religious Studies, Vivarium, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Res Philosophica, TheoLogica, and The International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.