Karl Barth was a Swiss Reformed theologian. Barth is best known for his commentary The Epistle to the Romans,his involvement in the Confessing Church,including his authorship of the Barmen Declaration,and especially his unfinished multi-volume theological summa the Church Dogmatics. Barth's influence expanded well beyond the academic realm to mainstream culture,leading him to be featured on the cover of Time on 20 April 1962.
A Regius Professor is a university professor who has,or originally had,royal patronage or appointment. They are a unique feature of academia in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The first Regius Professorship was in the field of medicine,and founded by the Scottish King James IV at the University of Aberdeen in 1497. Regius chairs have since been instituted in various universities,in disciplines judged to be fundamental and for which there is a continuing and significant need. Each was established by an English,Scottish,or British monarch,and following proper advertisement and interview through the offices of the university and the national government,the current monarch still appoints the professor. This royal imprimatur,and the relative rarity of these professorships,means a Regius chair is prestigious and highly sought-after.
Robert Merrihew Adams was an American analytic philosopher. He specialized in metaphysics,philosophy of religion,ethics,and the history of early modern philosophy.
Kenneth Escott Kirk,also known as K. E. Kirk,was an English Anglican bishop. An influential moral theologian,he served as Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford from 1933 to 1938,and then as the Bishop of Oxford in the Church of England from 1937 to 1954.
The Oxford Faculty of Theology and Religion co-ordinates the teaching of theology at the University of Oxford. It is part of Oxford's Humanities Division.
Caroline Elkins is Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Harvard University,the Thomas Henry Carroll/Ford Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School,Affiliated Professor at Harvard Law School,and the Founding Oppenheimer Faculty Director of Harvard's Center for African Studies.
Oliver Michael Timothy O'Donovan is a British Anglican priest and academic,known for his work in the field of Christian ethics. He has also made contributions to political theology,both contemporary and historical. He was Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford from 1982 to 2006,and Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology at the University of Edinburgh from 2006 to 2013.
Graham John Ward is an English theologian and Anglican priest who has been Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford since 2012.
Leonard Hodgson was an Anglican priest,philosopher,theologian,historian of the early Church and Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford from 1944 to 1958.
E. David Cook is a Fellow of Green College,Oxford and the first Holmes Professor of Faith and Learning at Wheaton College. He is also a visiting professor of Christian ethics at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville,Kentucky,and is a Senior Fellow of the Trinity Forum. He advises the archbishops and the British Government and is a member of the UK Xenotransplantation Interim Regulatory Authority. He lectures internationally and preaches in a wide variety of denominations.
David Alexander Syme Fergusson is a Scottish theologian and Presbyterian minister. Since 2021,he has been Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge.
The McDonald Centre for Theology,Ethics &Public Life is a research institute in the University of Oxford,which is associated with the Faculty of Theology. Its director is Nigel Biggar,Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology. The current McDonald Fellow for Christian Ethics &Public Life is John Perry.
The Regius Professorship of Moral and Pastoral Theology,together with the Regius Professorship of Ecclesiastical History,was founded at the University of Oxford by an act of Parliament in 1840,and first filled in 1842. The act attached the chair to the fourth canonry at Christ Church from the next vacancy,which occurred in 1849:as such,the holder must be an Anglican priest or a priest of a church in communion with the Church of England. The initial title,Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology,was expanded for the appointment of K. E. Kirk in 1933. The professor is a member of the Chapter of Christ Church.
Paul T Nimmo is a Scottish theologian who holds the position of King’s Chair of Systematic Theology at the University of Aberdeen.
Ian Alexander McFarland is an American Lutheran theologian and has since 2019 served as Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Theology at Emory University's Candler School of Theology,where he also taught from 2005 to 2015. From 2015 to 2019 he was the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He holds degrees from Trinity College (Hartford),Union Theological Seminary,the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago,the University of Cambridge and Yale University. He also taught at the University of Aberdeen from 1998 to 2005.
Bruce Gilley is a Canadian–American professor of political science and director of the PhD program in Public Affairs and Policy at the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University. He is the founder and president of the Oregon Association of Scholars,member of the Heterodox Academy and founding signatory of the Oregon Academic Faculty Pledge on Freedom. Gilley gained international acclaim but also a storm of criticism for his highly controversial peer-reviewed article "The Case for Colonialism," published in an advance online edition of the scientific journal Third World Quarterly in 2017. Fifteen members of the journal's board resigned over Gilley's article.
James Robert McDougall is a British historian. He is a Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Oxford and Laithwaite Fellow in History at Trinity College,Oxford.
Gordon Graham is Chair of the Edinburgh Sacred Arts Foundation,Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and the Arts at Princeton Theological Seminary in the USA,and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,Scotland's premier academy of science and letters.
Alan Lester is a British historian,historical geographer and author who has worked for Sussex University since 2000. He was appointed Professor of Historical Geography in 2006. He is known for his research on imperial networks,colonial humanitarianism and imperial governance.
