Robert Ellis (academic)

The Reverend Robert Anthony Ellis, MA, DPhil born Cardiff, Wales 24 August 1956, is the Principal of Regent's Park College, Oxford, England.

Robert Ellis was 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 is currently Fellow and Tutor in Pastoral Theology and Mission at Regent's Park College, Oxford and Director of Pastoral Studies for the Mansfield-Regent's Park Ministerial Training Team. He is also Moderator of the Baptist Union of Great Britain Ministry Executive.

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

He delivered the McCandless Lecture at Georgetown College in 2005 and again in 2010.

Robert Ellis is the younger brother of Christopher Ellis.

Publications

Book

• Robert Ellis, Answering God: Towards a Theology of Intercession (Bletchley: Paternoster, 2005)

Chapters in books

• Robert Ellis, 'Covenant and Creation', in Anthony Clarke, ed., Bound for Glory? God, Church and World in Covenant (Oxford: Whitley Publications, 2002), pp. 20-33
• Robert Ellis, 'Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Reading Films' and 'Pondering Providence: Sliding Doors', in Anthony Clarke and Paul S. Fiddes, eds, Flickering Images: Theology and Film in Dialogue (Oxford: Regent's Park College; Macon, Georgia: Smyth & Helwys, 2005), pp. 7-24 and 137-148

Articles in journals

• Robert Ellis, 'From Hegel to Whitehead', The Journal of Religion 61:4 (October 1981), 403-21
• Robert Ellis, 'How Relative Should Theology Be?', Baptist Quarterly 29.5, (January 1982), 220-224
• Robert Ellis, 'Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy: The Pastor and the suffering God', Transformation 22 (2005)
• Robert Ellis, 'And the Life Everlasting: A Theological Reflection on Death and Dying', Transformation 24 (2007)

Theses

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

Heads of Houses of the University of Oxford Colleges All Souls: John Vickers Balliol: Drummond Bone Brasenose: Alan Bowman Christ Church: Martyn Percy Corpus Christi: Richard Carwardine Exeter: Frances Cairncross Green Templeton: Denise Lievesley Harris Manchester: Ralph Waller Hertford: Will Hutton Jesus: The Rt Hon Lord Krebs Keble: Sir Jonathan Phillips Kellogg: Jonathan Michie Lady Margaret Hall: Frances Lannon Linacre: Nick Brown Lincoln: Henry Woudhuysen Magdalen: David Clary Mansfield: The Rt Hon Baroness Kennedy Merton: Sir Martin J. Taylor New College: Curtis Price Nuffield: Andrew Dilnot Oriel: Moira Wallace Pembroke: Dame Lynne Brindley Queen's: Paul Madden St Anne's: Tim Gardam St Antony's: Margaret MacMillan St Catherine's: Roger Ainsworth St Cross: Mark Jones St Edmund Hall: Keith Gull St Hilda's: Sheila Forbes St Hugh's: Elish Angiolini St John's: Maggie Snowling St Peter's: Mark Damazer Somerville: Alice Prochaska Trinity: Sir Ivor Roberts University: Sir Ivor Crewe Wadham: The Rt Hon Lord Macdonald of River Glaven QC Wolfson: Hermione Lee Worcester: Jonathan Bate Permanent Private Halls Blackfriars: Simon Gaine Campion Hall: Brendan Callaghan Regent's Park College: Robert Ellis St Benet's Hall: Werner Jeanrond St Stephen's House: Robin Ward Wycliffe Hall: Michael Lloyd Recognised Independent Centres Buddhist Studies: Richard Gombrich Energy Studies: Christopher Allsopp Hebrew and Jewish Studies: David Ariel Hindu Studies: Shaunaka Rishi Das Islamic Studies: Farhan Nizami University of Oxford portal

Sources

• The Georgetonian 6 April 2005
• Oxford University Theology Faculty
• British Baptist Theologians: Robert Ellis