Paul Fiddes

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A Unicorn Dies: A Novel of Mystery and Ideas. Oxford: Firedint Publishing. 2018.

Monographs

  • The Creative Suffering of God. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1988.
  • Past Event and Present Salvation: The Christian Idea of Atonement. London: Darton, Longman, & Todd. 1989.
  • Freedom and Limit: A Dialogue between Literature and Christian Doctrine. Basingstoke Macon: Macmillan. 1991. (Also published by Mercer University Press, 1999)
  • The Promised End: Eschatology in Theology and Literature. Oxford: Blackwell. 2000.
  • Participating in God: A Pastoral Doctrine of the Trinity. London: Darton, Longman, & Todd. 2000.
  • Tracks and Traces: Baptist Identity in Church and Theology. Carlisle: Paternoster. 2003.
  • Seeing the World and Knowing God: Hebrew Wisdom and Christian Doctrine in a Late-Modern Context. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2013.
  • Charles Williams and C.S. Lewis: Friends in Co-Inherence. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021.
  • Iris Murdoch and the Others: A Writer in Dialogue with Theology. London: T.&T. Clark. 2021.
  • More Things in Heaven and Earth: Shakespeare, Theology, and the Interplay of Texts. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press. 2022. (Originally given as the 2018 Richard E. Myers Lectures at University Baptist Church, Charlottesville, VA, under the title The Play's the Thing: Shakespeare and Religion)

Edited volumes

  • Reflection on the Water: Understanding God and the World through the Baptism of Believers. Macon: Mercer University Press. 1996.
  • E. Brandt; J. Molthagen, eds. (1996). Gemeinschaft am Evangelium. Festschrift fur Wiard Popkes. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt.
  • W. H. Brackney; John H. Y. Briggs, eds. (1999). Pilgrim Pathways: Essays in Baptist History in Honour of B. R. White. Macon: Mercer University Press.
  • Doing Theology in a Baptist Way. Oxford: Whitley Publications. 2000.
  • The Novel, Spirituality and Modern Culture: Eight Novelists Write about their Craft and their Context. Cardiff: Cardiff University Press. 2000.
  • Faith in the Centre: Christianity and Culture. Regent's Study Guides 9. Macon: Smyth & Helwys. 2001.
  • Anthony J. Clarke, ed. (2005). Flickering Images: Theology and Film in Dialogue. Regent's Study Guides 12. Macon: Smyth & Helwys.
  • Under the Rule of Christ: Dimensions in Baptist Spirituality. Regent's Study Guides 14. Macon: Smyth & Helwys. 2008.
  • Gunther Bader, ed. (2013). The Spirit and the Letter: A Tradition and a Reversal. London: T & T Clark.
  • Jochen Schmidt, ed. (2013). Rhetorik des Bosen/The Rhetoric of Evil: Studien des Bonner Zentrums fur Religion und Gesellschaft. Wurzburg: Ergon Verlag.
  • Sharing Faith at the Boundaries of Unity: Further Conversations between Anglians and Baptists. Centre for Baptist History and Heritage Studies vol. 12. Oxford: Regent's Park College. 2015.
  • "A World-Order of Love": Baptists and the Peace Movements of 1914". Centre for Baptist History and Heritage Studies vol. 15. Oxford: Regent's Park College. 2017.

Co-authored volumes

  • Stephen Holmes; Paul Molnar; Thomas McCall; Jason Sexton (2014). Two Views on the Doctrine of the Trinity. Counterpoints: Bible and Theology. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.
  • Brian Haymes; Richard Kidd (2014). Baptists and the Communion of Saints: A Theology of Covenanted Disciples. Waco: Baylor University Press/Gazelle.
  • Anthony Clarke (2017). Dissenting Spirit: A History of Regent's Park College 1752-2017. Centre for Baptist History and Heritage Studies. Oxford: Regent's Park College.

Booklets/pamphlets

  • The Escape and the City: Old Testament Study. Baptist Union Training Programme. London: Baptist Union. 1974.
  • Charismatic Renewal: A Baptist View. London: Baptist Publications. 1980.
  • A Leading Question: The Structure and Authority of Leadership in the Local Church. London: Baptist Publications. 1980.
  • Brian Haymes; Richard Kidd; Michael Quicke (1997). On the Way of Trust. Oxford: Whitley Publications.

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Paul Stuart Fiddes
FBA
Principal of Regent's Park College, Oxford
In office
1989–2007