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 is an American analytic philosopher,specializing in metaphysics,philosophy of religion,ethics,and the history of early modern philosophy.
Monkton Combe School is a public school,located in the village of Monkton Combe near Bath in Somerset,England.
Kenneth Escott Kirk (1886–1954),also known as K. E. Kirk,was an English Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Oxford in the Church of England from 1937 to 1954. He was also an influential moral theologian,serving for five years as Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Oxford.
The Oxford Faculty of Theology and Religion co-ordinates the teaching of theology at the University of Oxford,England. 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.
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 Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Aberdeen.
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 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 (1949) 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.
Legacy of Violence:A History of the British Empire is a 2022 nonfiction history book by American historian and professor Caroline Elkins. The book covers the history of the British Empire from the Great Bengal famine of 1770 through the post-World War II period of recurring end-of-empire insurgencies up until the present-day,including the Mau Mau High Court case and the ongoing imperial history wars. The book was short-listed for the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.
Alan Lester is a British historian,historical geographer and author who has worked for Sussex University since 2000. He is known for his research on imperial networks,colonial humanitarianism and imperial governance. In Colonisation and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance he and Fae Dussart analysed the ways in which men considering themselves humane oversaw the destruction of Indigenous societies. Ruling the World examined how imperial governance worked 'everywhere and all at once' across the British Empire at key moments during the nineteenth century. Lester gave the Distinguished Historical Geographer Lecture at the 2022 Association of American Geographers annual conference. He is co-editor of the Manchester University Press Studies in Imperialism research monograph series. As a result of his book Imperial Networks,he has been described as “the pioneer of the idea”of “a key concept much used in recent ‘new imperial history’writing …that of the imperial network”Lester has written of his concern at the recent politicisation of imperial history,and critiqued Nigel Biggar's representation of colonialism.
