Pattison currently holds 1640 Chair of Divinity at the University of Glasgow succeeding Werner Jeanrond who then became Master of St Benet's Hall at the University of Oxford in 2012. Pattison began his professorship at Glasgow in September 2013. In 2017, he gave the Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford; the series was titled "A Phenomenology of the Devout Life". These have now been published as first of a three part 'Philosophy of Christian Life' under the same title. Parts 2 and 3 are entitled A Rhetorics of the Word and A Metaphysics of Love (forthcoming).