Visiting Professors

St Mellitus' Visiting Professors are senior academics who teach on a regular basis in the college. 

The Revd Professor Keith Ward studied at the University of Wales, Cambridge and Oxford Universities.  He is currently a Professorial Research Fellow at Heythrop College in the philosophy of religion and has held Lecturer posts in Logic at the University of Glasgow, Philosophy at St Andrew's, and Philosophy of Religion at King's College London. He was Fellow, Dean and Director of Studies in Philosophy and in Theology at Trinity Hall Cambridge, where he was also Lecturer in Divinity. He was the F D Maurice Professor of Moral and Social Theology at the University of London, where he was also Professor and Head of Department of History and Philosophy of Religion. Until 2003, he was Canon of Christ Church, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford for over a decade. Professor Ward is the author of many books, including 'Why there Almost Certainly is a God: Doubting Dawkins' and 'God, Chance and Necessity'.

The Revd Professor Alister McGrath is one of the most published and well-known theologians in the world today. He comes from Belfast, N. Ireland, and studied at Oxford, Cambridge and Utrecht universities. He is a specialist in a wide range of fields, including Reformation theology, Anglicanism, and the relationship between Science and Faith. He was Principal of Wycliffe Hall Oxford, Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford University, and is now Professor of Theology, Education and Ministry at King's College London. He is the author of numerous books, including 'Christian Theology: An Introduction', ' A Scientific Theology (3 volumes), and 'Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes and the Meaning of Life'.

Professor Richard Bauckham is a widely published scholar in theology, historical theology and New Testament. Richard Bauckham was until 2007 Professor of New Testament Studies and Bishop Wardlaw Professor in the University of St Andrews. He has recently retired in order to concentrate on research and writing, and is Senior Scholar at Ridley Hall in Cambridge.He studied at the University of Cambridge, where he read history at Clare College and was a Fellow of St John's College. He taught theology for one year at the University of Leeds, and for fifteen years at the University of Manchester, where he was Lecturer, then Reader in the History of Christian Thought, before moving to St Andrews in. Bauckham has been published in a variety of fields in New Testament studies and early Christianity. His current research interests include Jesus and the Gospels, New Testament Christology, and the relevance of the Bible to ecological issues.