He is an ordained minister in the Baptist Union of Great Britain and has served congregations in Milton Keynes and Bristol. He was Principal of Regent's Park College from 2007 to 2021.[1] Ellis also plays a major role in Training and Formation for Baptist Ministers' training at the College.
Ellis was Tutor in Christian Doctrine at Bristol Baptist College (1991-2001) before being appointed to the staff at Regent’s Park,initially as Fellow and Tutor in Pastoral Studies (2001-2007),then as Principal (2007-2021) and now as Senior Research Fellow.
He serves on the Advisory Committee of the Vatican-sponsored programme 'Sport at the Service of Humanity.'[2] He delivered the McCandless Lecture at Georgetown College in 2005 and again in 2010.
——— (2004). Teaching Theology in the Academy: Preparing Men and Women for Ministry (Postgraduate Diploma in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education). University of Oxford.
Academic Books
——— (2005). Answering God: Towards a Theology of Intercession. Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster. ISBN9781842273401. OCLC58482871.
——— (2014). The Games People Play: Theology, Religion, and Sport. Eugene OR: Wipf & Stock. ISBN9780718843243. OCLC892430480.
——— (2002). "Covenant and Creation". In Clarke, Anthony (ed.). Bound for Glory? God, Church and World in Covenant. Oxford: Whitley Publications. pp.20–33. ISBN0953974812.
——— (2005). "Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Reading Films". In Clarke, Anthony; Fiddes, Paul S. (eds.). Flickering Images: Theology and Film in Dialogue. Oxford: Regent's Park College.
——— (2005). "Pondering Providence: Sliding Doors". In Clarke, Anthony; Fiddes, Paul S. (eds.). Flickering Images: Theology and Film in Dialogue. Oxford: Regent's Park College.
——— (2009). "Baptist Ministers as Leaders". In Lalleman, Pieter J. (ed.). Challenging to Change: Dialogues with a Radical Baptist Theologian - Essays presented to Dr Nigel G. Wright on his sixtieth birthday. London: Spurgeon’s College. ISBN9780950068237. OCLC700526743.
——— (2012). "Play up! Play up! And play the game: cricket and our place in the world". In Finamore, Stephen; Weaver, John (eds.). Wisdom, Science and the Scriptures: Essays in Honour of Ernest Lucas. Bristol: Regents Park College. pp.243–62.
——— (2016). "Film Noir and the Bible". In Burnette-Bletsch, Rhonda (ed.). The Bible in Motion: A Handbook of the Bible and its Reception in Film. Boston, MS: De Gruyter.
——— (2017). "Help us to search for Truth: Baptists and Doing Theology". In Blyth, Myra; Goodliff, Andy (eds.). Gathering Disciples: Essays in Honour of Christopher Ellis. Eugene OR: Pickwick. pp.1–25. ISBN9781498231572.
——— (January 1985). "God's Adventure of Love: an introduction to some leading ideas of Process Theology, and their pastoral implications". The Fraternal.
——— (April 1987). "God and History: an essay on the interface of theological and historical methods". Baptist Quarterly.
——— (2009). "Bringing out the Meaning: Deacy, Nolan, Scorcese and what films "mean"". The Journal of Religion and Film. 13 (2).
——— (2012). "Faster, Higher, Stronger: – Sport and the point of it all". Anvil. 28 (1).
——— (2012). "The meanings of sport: an empirical study into the significance attached to sporting participation and spectating in the UK and US". Practical Theology. 5 (2).
——— (Autumn 2015). "The Church as Praying Community". International Congregational Journal. 14 (2).
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