Tim is an amateur literary critic with a old historical-formalist-mimeticist style of criticism that draws significantly from Existentialist thought and the archetypal psychology of C.G. Jung. He primarily prefers pre-Enlightment literature, particularly classical and Renaissance literature, although Tim happily gives a nod to some modernist and post-modernist literature from the likes of T.S. Eliot and Tom Stoppard.
In theology, Tim's most significant influence comes from Martin Bucer, Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, Martin Luther and Karl Barth. As he puts it, he is "Evangelical in spirit, Reformed in theology, Presbyterian in governance." Most of Tim's views would be considered Evangelical, but his academic approach to religion sometimes causes people to think otherwise. He supports the integration of philosophy and theology into a cohesive worldview as in Scholasticism but does so bearing in mind Barth's general concern that philosophy should not overrule God's revelation.
