Richard Turnbull
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The Reverend Richard Duncan Turnbull (born 1960) is the Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.
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[edit] Biography
He was educated at the University of Reading (BA 1982) and St John's College, Durham (Cranmer Hall) (BA First Class Theology 1992, PhD 1997). He became a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland in 1985. He is also a Master of Arts of the University of Oxford (2005).
He was ordained deacon in 1994 and priest in 1995.
He served as Assistant Curate of Portswood Christ Church 1994-98 and Vicar of Chineham 1998-2005.
He has also been a member of the General Synod of the Church of England (1995-2005), chairman of the Business Committee of the General Synod (2004-05), and chairman of working parties that produced reports on clergy pay and the funding a theological education. He was a member of The Archbishops' Council of the Church of England (2003-05) and chairman of the House of Clergy of Diocesan Synod of the Diocese of Winchester (2000-05).
He is Chairman, and a Director, of the Church of England Evangelical Council and will remain in office until 2010.
He was appointed Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford in 2005. Between a third and half of the college's academic staff is said to have resigned since he became Principal (including Geoffrey Maughan, Director of Pastoral Studies, Philip Johnston, Director of Studies, Krish Kandiah, Tutor in Evangelism, and David Wenham, Vice-Principal and Tutor in New Testament). One member, Elaine Storkey, has allegedly been threatened with disciplinary action.[1] Many members of the teaching staff are reported to have written to the college's governing council to complain about the Principal's leadership style, claiming that he was undermining the College's reputation.[2] On 15 May 2007 an internal review was announced by the college's governing council.
At the same time the college appointed William Donaldson as a senior tutor of the college. Rev. Donaldson, an evangelical charismatic, is known to favour both the ordination of women and the ordination of women as bishops.
In a speech he made in October 2006 to the conservative Anglican group Reform Turnbull encouraged conservative evangelical Anglicans to give ten percent of their donations to the Church of England to conservative evangelical theological colleges. In the same speech exhorted the church to evangelism, stating that 95% of the UK population was "facing hell unless the message of the gospel is brought to bear."[3]
He is a supporter of the doctrine of Substitutionary Penal Atonement.
He and Simon Vibert = vice principal were members of the committee that drafted the document A Covenant for the Church of England (see Anglican Mainstream: A Covenant for the Church of England).
[edit] Notes
- ^ Eeva John, Geoff Maughan, David Wenham 'Letter to the Church of England Newspaper'. Retrieved on 2008-03-19.
- ^ Stephen Bates 'Theological college's head is undermining it, say predecessors'. Retrieved on 2008-03-19.
- ^ 'Richard Turnbull at Reform Conference October 2006'. Retrieved on 2008-03-19.
[edit] Publications
- Anglican and Evangelical? (Continuum, 2007)
- 'Evangelicalism: the state of scholarship and the question of identity', Anvil 16:2 (1999)
- Eschatology and the Social Order: A Historical Perspective (Whitefield Institute Briefings 3:2, March 1998)
- 'Lord Shaftesbury', in Theologische Realenzyklopadie (1993)
- 'The emergence of the Protestant Evangelical Tradition', Churchman 107 (November 1993)
[edit] Sources and further information
- Church House Bookshop review of Anglican and Evangelical?
- Anglican Mainstream review of Anglican and Evangelical?
- Theo Hobson, Comment is Free: Highway to Disestablishment, The Guardian (24 May 2007)
- J. Grant Swank, Jr, 'Anglican College Pres Says "Go to Hell"', The American Daily (24 May 2007)
- Andy McSmith, 'The man who says we are all going to hell', The Independent (25 May 2007)
- Iona Bergius, 'Crisis at Wycliffe Hall as five staff resign in protest', Cherwell (18 May 2007)
- Bill Bowder, 'Principal's changes lead to resignations and wall of silence' Church Times 7523 (18 May 2007)
- 'Wycliffe Council backs Principal in process of change', The Church of England Newspaper, reprinted on Anglican Mainstream
- Stephen Bates, 'College row reflects crisis in Anglican Church', Religious Intelligence (24 May 2007)
- David Phillips, 'Guardian attack on Wycliffe Hall', EV News (16 May 2007)
- Stephen Bates, 'Unholy row at Oxford's college for clergy amid staff exodus and claims of bullying', The Guardian (16 May 2007)
- William Crawley, 'Richard Turnbull on the demographics of hell', Will and Testament (24 May 2007)
- Stephen Bates, 'Theologian damns most Britons to hell', The Guardian (24 May 2007)
- Thinking Anglicans: Richard Turnbull speaks to Reform
- Wycliffe Hall, Oxford: Revd Dr Richard Turnbull
- Richard Turnbull Publications
- University of Oxford Annual Review 2004/05: Heads of House
- Church of England Evangelical Council: Council Membership
- Crockford's Clerical Directory (97th edn, London: Church House Publishing, 2001), p. 764
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