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A minister of the Methodist Church of Great Britain, I joined the staff of Edgehill in 2004 following nine years as Principal of the ecumenical West of England Ministerial Training Course. Prior to that, my ministerial experience included thirteen years pastoral ministry in north London and three years on the staff of Sia’atoutai Theological College in the South Pacific islands of Tonga. I have been the Chair of the Faith and Order Committee of the British Methodist Church and keep a close interest in the wider world Church, especially in Oceania. I am a member of the Society for the Study of Theology and the American Academy of Religion.

 

My passions are for a learning Church, for a theologically engaged ministry and for excellence in worship. I teach undergraduate and masters courses in the areas of doctrine, worship and systematic theology. My research interests deal with the nature of Christian doctrine, ecumenical theology and ecclesiology. Currently I supervise research students across a wide range of theological topics, including theological method, theology and animals, personhood and communion, biblical hermeneutics and charismatic theology.

 

I share the Principal’s manse with my wife Diane (also a Methodist minister) and our Labrador, Megan. We have left our two daughters, Elizabeth and Miriam, back in England. When not teaching theology or running the college, I take time for choral singing, sailing, gardening and walking.

 

The Queen’s College Birmingham, 19974-77.

BA       Theology, Birmingham, 1977

MA      Ecumenical Theology, Irish School of Ecumenics, Dublin, 1979

PhD     Birmingham (“Faithfulness in History: the Doctrinal Theology of Jürgen Moltmann and Edward Schillebeeckx”) 1992

 

“Helpmate of a Self-sufficient God: a Dialogue with Karl Barth” in Mary for Time and Eternity (ed. William McLoughlin and Jill Pinnock), Gracewing, 2007.

Handing on Christ Rediscovering the Gift of Christian Doctrine, Epworth Press, 2009.

“How Great the Debt we Owe: What can Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo say to Contemporary Culture?” Epworth Review, January, 2009.