Vice Principal, Ripon College Cuddesdon; Visiting Professor, Oxford Brookes University; Vice-Chair of the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network
Studied PPE and Theology at Trinity College, Oxford and Ludwig-Maximillians University, Munich. Stephenson Fellow at the Department of Biblical Studies, Sheffield University (1989-91). Lecturer in Systematic Theology, Ripon College Cuddesdon (from 1992). Vice-Principal from 2002. Reader in Modern Theology, University of Oxford, 2008-2015. Professor of the History of Modern Theology, University of Oxford, from 2015. Hensley Henson Lecturer, 2013. Canon Theologian, Truro Cathedral from 2016; Co-chair of Meissen Theological Conference from 2018.
Research Area(s):
Historical and Systematic Theology
History of Christianity
Study of Religions
Research Interests:
Historical Theology from 1750 (Britain, U.S. & Germany); Ecumenism; Ernst Troeltsch and Liberal Theology; History & Theology of Anglicanism; Secularization Theory; Political and Social Theory; History of Sexuality.
Editorships:
Series editor for Ecclesiological Investigations Series (Palgrave Macmillan); Co-editor of the Journal for the History of Modern Theology/Zeitschrift für neuere Theologiegeschichte.