Publications
Key publications:
Books:
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The Oxford History of Anglicanism. Vol. 4. Global Western Anglicanism, c.1910-present (edited) (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
- The High Church Revival in the Church of England. Identity and Argument (forthcoming)
- The Church in the Modern Age (I.B. Tauris, 2007, also published as Das Christentum im 20. Jahrhundert. Kirche zwischen Politik und Gesellschaft, Kreuz Verlag, 2008)
- An Acceptable Sacrifice? Homosexuality and the Church (edited, with D. Dormor) (SPCK, 2007)
- F.D. Maurice and the Crisis of Christian Authority (Oxford University Press, 2005)
Recent and forthcoming articles:
- ‘Liberalism: Protestant and Catholic’, in S.J. Brown & P.B. Nockles (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Oxford Movement (forthcoming)
- ‘British High Churchmen, continental church tourism and the Roman connection in the nineteenth century’, in the Journal of Ecclesiastical History (2015)
- ‘Porvoo: the longue durée – an Anglican background’, in J. Rusama (ed.), Together in Mission and Ministry (Nordic Ecumenical Study Series, 2013)
- 'Religion in Modern Gwent' in A. Croll and C. Williams (eds.), Gwent County History Vol. 5. Modern Gwent (University of Wales Press, 2013)
- ‘”Separated Brethren”: French Catholics and the Oxford Movement’, in S.J. Brown & P. Nockles (ed.), The Oxford Movement: Europe and the Wider World 1830- 1930 (CUP, 2012)
- ‘Preaching the Oxford Movement’, in W. Gibson & K. Francis (eds.), The Oxford Handbook on the British Sermon, 1689-1901(OUP, 2012)
- ‘Secularization and Religious Experience: Arguments in the Historiography of Modern British Religion’, Historical Journal (2012)
- ‘George Ridding and the Diocese of Southwell: a Study in the National Church Ideal’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History (2010)
Teaching and Supervisions
Research supervision:
Current PhD research includes:
- The ‘beautiful soul’, sanctification and the theology of aesthetics
- Ecclesiology, kenosis and recognition
- Bishops in the reign of George II
Past PhD supervision has included the following subjects:
- The growth of the diocese of London between the wars
- The theology of Oliver Chase Quick
- Bishop Selwyn, episcopacy and the Anglican Communion
- The theology of work
- Cambridge theology and Essays Catholic and Critical
- Thomas Hardy, Hans Urs von Balthasar and the theology of tragedy
- Pneumatology and Institutionalism in the Church
- The ecclesiology of the Mission-Shaped Church report
- Church and community use in East London in the late C20th
- The ecumenical commitment of Eastern Orthodoxy
- Unity and the ecclesiology of William Temple
- High Churchmen, sacrifice and the First World War