Paul Fiddes
English Baptist theologian (born 1947) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Paul Stuart Fiddes FBA (born 30 April 1947)[1] is an English Baptist theologian and novelist.
Paul Stuart Fiddes | |
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Born | (1947-04-30) 30 April 1947 (age 77) |
Nationality | English |
Education | Drayton Manor Grammar School |
Alma mater | St Peter's College, Oxford Regent's Park College, Oxford Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen |
Known for | Principal of Regent's Park College, Oxford Chairman of Theology Faculty, Oxford Professor of Systematic Theology, Oxford |
Notable work | The Creative Suffering of God (Oxford, 1988) |
Awards | Hon DD Bucharest 2004 Hon Fellow St Peter's College, Oxford 2004 Ecumenical Prebendary St Endellion 2012 Hon Ecumenical Canon Christ Church 2012 For the Sake of the Church (Festschrift) (2014) Within the Love of God (Festschrift) (2014) Fellow of the British Academy (2020) |
Website | Professor Paul Fiddes |
Fiddes is Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology in the University of Oxford, Principal Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow of Regent's Park College, Oxford (where he is director of the Project for the Study of Love in Religion), and a former Chairman of the Oxford Faculty of Theology.
Fiddes has been described as "one of the leading contemporary Baptist theologians",[2] "one of the leading scholars of theology and literature writing today",[3] "one of Christianity's most distinguished scholars",[4] and "one of the foremost theological thinkers of the modern age".[5] His book The Creative Suffering of God is "considered to be one of the major contributions to theology in the last decades of the 20th century".[6][7][8][9]