Staff

Tutorial Fellows

St Stephen’s College, Oxford Revd Canon Dr Robin Ward became Principal of St Stephen’s House in September 2006. Canon Ward was vicar of the parish of S. John the Baptist, Sevenoaks for the last ten years, and was honorary canon theologian of Rochester Cathedral. A graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford, he trained for the priesthood at the House and subsequently obtained a doctorate from the University of London in the field of patristics. He is married to Ruth, who is a solicitor, and they have two young sons. Contact: robin.ward@ssho.ox.ac.uk Tel.: Principal's PA (01865) (6)13500

The Revd Damian Feeney is Vice-Principal and Charles Marriott Director of Pastoral Studies. He read music at Durham University, after which he qualified as a teacher. He trained for ordination at Chichester Theological College, and was ordained in 1994. Between 1996 and 2009 he worked in a variety of posts in the Diocese of Blackburn, combining parish ministry with Diocesan and National work as a missioner. He has particular experience of church planting, having initiated two congregations on housing estates. His interests lie in the Theology of Mission and Theological Ethics. He was a member of the working party which produced the Mission-shaped Church report. He is also a national team member of Leading your Church into Growth and a member of the College of Evangelists. He is married to Fiona, a primary school head teacher, and they have three children.Contact: damian.feeney@ssho.ox.ac.uk Tel.: (01865) (6)13515

St Stephen’s College, Oxford Ian Boxall is Senior Tutor and teaches New Testament and Greek. A Roman Catholic, he studied theology at the Franciscan Study Centre, Canterbury, and Oriel College, Oxford. After postgraduate work in New Testament, he was New Testament Tutor at Chichester Theological College, before joining the staff of St Stephen’s House in 1994. Ian has a particular interest in the Book of Revelation, and is the author of Revelation: Vision and Insight (SPCK 2002) and The Revelation of St John (Black’s New Testament Commentaries; Continuum/Hendrickson 2006). He has also written two books in the SCM Studyguide series: on New Testament Interpretation and The Books of the New Testament (SCM 2007). His current research is on Patmos in the Reception History of the Apocalypse.

Ian serves as Vice-Chair of the Executive Committee of the Catholic Biblical Association of Great Britain, and is on the editorial board of Scripture Bulletin. He speaks regularly to clergy and church groups on New Testament subjects.
Ian’s Faculty Web page. Contact: ian.boxall@ssho.ox.ac.uk Tel. (01865) (6)13511

St Stephen’s College, Oxford Dr John Jarick teaches Old Testament and Hebrew. An Australian Lutheran, with a doctorate from the University of Melbourne, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and taught at the universities of St Andrews, Sheffield, and Roehampton, before joining the staff of St Stephen’s House in 2001. He has particular interests in the Old Testament wisdom literature (especially the book of Ecclesiastes) and historical writings (especially the books of Chronicles), on both of which he has published extensively.

John serves as Secretary of the Society for Old Testament Study, as Co-Editor (together with Keith Whitelam) of the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, as General Editor of the Readings series of biblical commentaries (published by Sheffield Phoenix Press), and as an editorial board member of several academic series, including the Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies (published by T & T Clark).
John’s Faculty Web page. Contact: john.jarick@ssho.ox.ac.uk. Tel. (01865) (6)13512

The Revd Dr Andrew Davison is tutor in doctrine and course director for the MTh in Applied Theology. He also organises the House summer school in apologetics and a series of conferences on theology and the Church called Returning to the Church. He studied theology at Cambridge, and before that chemistry and biochemistry at Oxford. He came to the House from a curacy in South-East London, where he had a special interest in inter-faith dialogue and teaching theology to young people.

Andrew is also the junior chaplain of Merton College and has run various theology-themed groups in the University. His current research is on finitude in Thomas Aquinas and later philosophers. Andrew is a frequent contributor to The Church Times. He lectures and preaches around the country.
Andrew’s Faculty Web page. Contact: andrew.davison@ssho.ox.ac.uk Tel. (01865) (6)13514

Mrs Lucy Gardner is Tutor in Christian Doctrine. She joined the staff in 1993, having studied theology at St John’s College, Oxford, and at Bonn University. Her research interests include Schleiermacher, Balthasar and Feminist Theology. She is married to Chris, a secondary school science teacher, and they live in Oxford with their two young children. Contact: lucy.gardner@ssho.ox.ac.uk Tel. (01865) (6)13516

Non-teaching staff

Mrs Michele Smith joined the House in September 2006 as Bursar. Unlike that of the larger colleges, her role encompasses both Administration and Financial Management. She worked in publishing for many years as Finance Director and Company Secretary before spending three years at Exeter College as Accommodation Manager. She lives in Jericho with her partner, Marco, who is a Physicist working at the JET laboratory in Culham. She has two children, Emily and Christopher, both now adults. Contact: michele.smith@ssho.ox.ac.uk

Research Fellows

St Stephen’s College, Oxford The Revd Professor Andrew Linzey, PhD, DD is an Honorary Research Fellow at St Stephen's House, a member of the Faculty of Theology in the University of Oxford, and Director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics (www.oxfordanimalethics.com). He is also Honorary Professor at the University of Winchester, and Special Professor at Saint Xavier University, Chicago. In addition, he is the first Professor of Animal Ethics at the Graduate Theological Foundation, Indiana. He was formerly Senior Research Fellow and Tutor in Ethics at Mansfield College, Oxford, and Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford.

Professor Linzey has written or edited 20 books, including Animal Theology (SCM Press/University of Illinois Press, 1994) and Creatures of the Same God (Winchester University Press, 2007). He is co-editor of the Dictionary of Ethics, Theology and Society (Routledge, 1995). In 2001, he was awarded a Doctor of Divinity degree by the Archbishop of Canterbury in recognition of his 'unique and massive pioneering work at a scholarly level in the area of the theology of creation with particular reference to the rights and welfare of God's sentient creatures'.
Andrew’s Faculty Web page. Contact: andrewlinzey@aol.com. Tel. (01865) 201565

St Stephen’s College, Oxford Dr John Chesworth became an Honorary Research Fellow in December 2008. He is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies. He edits the Christian-Muslim News Digest for Network for Inter Faith Concerns (NIFCON). He is also an Associate of the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies, University of Bayreuth. He recently completed his doctorate at the University of Birmingham on the 'Use of the Qur'an and Bible in Swahili Tracts by Muslims and Christians in East Africa'. From 1988 until 2006 he worked in theological education at St. Philip's Theological College, Kongwa, Tanzania and St. Paul's University, Limuru, Kenya. He is married to Phyll, who is Administrator of the Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies. Contact: john.chesworth@ssho.ox.ac.uk Tel.: (01865) (6)13445

Support staff

Mrs Sue Keeling is the College Secretary, PA to the Principal and Admissions Secretary. She joined St Stephen's House in 2008. She has also worked at Oriel College as Conference and Events Administrator. She is also trained as a physiotherapist, and thanks to her husband's service life overseas, knows what it means to make twenty moves in twenty-seven years. They now live in West Oxfordshire with their four children. Contact: susan.keeling@ssho.ox.ac.uk Tel. (01865) (6)13500

Mrs Annette Milnes is the Academic Secretary and has worked at the House since 1995. She liaises closely with the Senior Tutor on matters of student administration. Contact: annette.milnes@ssho.ox.ac.uk Tel. (01865) (6)13505

Dr Gillian Beattie is the Librarian. She read Divinity at the University of St Andrews, specialised in New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, and completed her PhD (on women and marriage in the Pauline and deutero-Pauline letters and in selected Nag Hammadi texts) at the University of Manchester in 2003. Gillian began her library career at Oxford’s Social Science Library, working initially as a graduate trainee and more recently in a research support role, focusing on collection development and user education activities. She now combines this latter position with her duties at St Stephen’s House.
Contact: gillian.beattie@ssho.ox.ac.uk Tel. (01865) (6)13506

Mrs Louise Griffiths is the Assistant Bursar. She joined St Stephen's House in 2009, in a role incorporating finance, accommodation management, and conference management. She is married to Dean and together they foster two children.
Contact: Louise.Griffiths@ssho.ox.ac.uk Tel. (01865) (6)13504

Visiting tutors

St Stephen’s College, Oxford The Revd Elaine Bardwell is Vicar of St. Michael & All Angels, New Marston, Area Dean of Cowley and Area Adviser for Women’s Ministry in the Oxford Archdeaconry. She was Director of Pastoral Studies at the House from 1989 to 1996. She teaches New Testament Greek.

The Revd Canon Vincent Strudwick is Fellow of Kellogg College and is emeritus member of the University Theology Faculty. He is visiting lecturer in Church History, specializing particularly in the history of Anglicanism.

St Stephen’s College, Oxford The Revd Canon Beaumont Stevenson is Chaplain of Oxfordshire Mental Healthcare NHS Trust and a member of the Institute of Group Analysis and the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. He teaches Pastoral Psychology.

Sister Benedicta Ward SLG is University Reader in Christian Spirituality and a member of the religious community at Fairacres. She teaches for the House in the areas of Spirituality and Church History.

St Stephen’s College, Oxford The Revd Dr Simon Jones is Chaplain and Fellow of Merton College and is a Consultant to the Church of England Liturgical Commission. He teaches Liturgy at the House. Simon’s webpage.