Biography:Robert Ellis (theologian)

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Short description: English academic, born 1956
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Robert Ellis
Principal of Regent's Park College, Oxford
In office
2007–2021
Preceded byPaul Fiddes
Succeeded byMalcolm Evans
Personal details
Born
Robert Anthony Ellis

(1956-08-24) 24 August 1956 (age 67)
Cardiff, Wales
RelationsTom Ellis (nephew)
Alma materRegent's Park College, Oxford
Academic work
DisciplineTheology
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsBristol Baptist College
Regent's Park College, Oxford
Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford

Robert Anthony Ellis (born 24 August 1956) is a British academic and Baptist minister, who was the Principal of Regent's Park College, Oxford, England from 2007 to 2021.

Biography

Robert Ellis was born in Cardiff and educated at Regent's Park College, Oxford, and received his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 1984. 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.

He has expertise in pastoral theology and systematic theology, the theology of intercession, and Christianity and culture - especially theology and film, and theology and sport. 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.

He has been Moderator of the Baptist Union of Great Britain Ministry Executive, and currently serves on the Baptist Steering group and Baptist Union of Great Britain Council.

His nephew is the actor Tom Ellis.

Works

Theses

  • Ellis, Robert A. (1984). Can God Act in History? A Whiteheadian Perspective (Ph.D.). University of Oxford. OCLC 499852545.
  • ——— (2004). Teaching Theology in the Academy: Preparing Men and Women for Ministry (Postgraduate Diploma in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education). University of Oxford.

Books

As editor

Chapters in books

  • Clarke, Anthony, ed (2002). "Covenant and Creation". Bound for Glory? God, Church and World in Covenant. Oxford: Whitley Publications. pp. 20–33. ISBN 0953974812. 
  • Clarke, Anthony; Fiddes, Paul S., eds (2005). "Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Reading Films". Flickering Images: Theology and Film in Dialogue. Oxford: Regent's Park College. 
  • Clarke, Anthony; Fiddes, Paul S., eds (2005). "Pondering Providence: Sliding Doors". Flickering Images: Theology and Film in Dialogue. Oxford: Regent's Park College. 
  • Lalleman, Pieter J., ed (2009). "Baptist Ministers as Leaders". Challenging to Change: Dialogues with a Radical Baptist Theologian - Essays presented to Dr Nigel G. Wright on his sixtieth birthday. London: Spurgeon’s College. ISBN 9780950068237. OCLC 700526743. 
  • Finamore, Stephen; Weaver, John, eds (2012). "Play up! Play up! And play the game: cricket and our place in the world". Wisdom, Science and the Scriptures: Essays in Honour of Ernest Lucas. Bristol: Regents Park College. pp. 243–62. 
  • Burnette-Bletsch, Rhonda, ed (2016). "Film Noir and the Bible". The Bible in Motion: A Handbook of the Bible and its Reception in Film. Boston, MS: De Gruyter. 
  • Blyth, Myra; Goodliff, Andy, eds (2017). "Help us to search for Truth: Baptists and Doing Theology". Gathering Disciples: Essays in Honour of Christopher Ellis. Eugene OR: Pickwick. pp. 1–25. ISBN 9781498231572. 

Articles in journals

  • "From Hegel to Whitehead". The Journal of Religion 61 (4): 403–421. October 1981. doi:10.1086/486891. 
  • "How Relative Should Theology Be?". Baptist Quarterly 29 (5). January 1982. 
  • "God's Adventure of Love: an introduction to some leading ideas of Process Theology, and their pastoral implications". The Fraternal. January 1985. 
  • "God and History: an essay on the interface of theological and historical methods". Baptist Quarterly. April 1987. 
  • "God and Action". Religious Studies 24 (4): 463–481. 1989. doi:10.1017/S0034412500019557. 
  • "The Vulnerability of Action". Religious Studies 25 (2): 225–233. 1990. doi:10.1017/S0034412500001839. 
  • "Preaching Christ Crucified". Epworth Review. May 1992. 
  • "Gathered at the Table: Reflections on the Lord's Supper". Baptist Ministers' Journal. April 1999. 
  • "On a journey of the Spirit". Baptist Ministers' Journal. July 2000. 
  • "Movies and Meaning – an introduction to theology in secular film". Expository Times. June 2001. 
  • "Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy: The Pastor and the suffering God". Transformation 22 (3): 166–175. 2005. doi:10.1177/026537880502200306. 
  • "And the Life Everlasting: A Theological Reflection on Death and Dying". Transformation 24 (2): 86–94. 2007. doi:10.1177/026537880702400204. 
  • "Bringing out the Meaning: Deacy, Nolan, Scorcese and what films "mean"". The Journal of Religion and Film 13 (2). 2009. 
  • "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). 2012. 
  • "The Church as Praying Community". International Congregational Journal 14 (2). Autumn 2015. 

Sources

References

  1. ↑ "New Principal sought for the College". 31 March 2021. https://www.rpc.ox.ac.uk/new-principal-sought-for-the-college/. 
  2. ↑ "Sport at the Service of Humanity". http://www.sportforhumanity.com/leadership-and-management/. 
Academic offices
Preceded by
Paul Fiddes 		Principal of Regent's Park College, Oxford
2007–2021 		Succeeded by
Sir Malcolm Evans



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