Staff Profiles 

Professor Andrew Lincoln
(Director)

Andrew is the Portland Professor of New Testament Studies at the University of Gloucestershire.  His publications have included Paradise Now and Not Yet, (C.U.P., 1981), Ephesians (Word, 1990) and The Theology of the Later Pauline Letters (C.U.P., 1993). A commentary on Colossians in the New Interpreter’s Bible Vol. XI (Abingdon) and a book on John’s Gospel and its appropriation, entitled Truth on Trial (Hendrikson) both appeared in 2000. More recently, he has published the commentary on The Gospel according to St. John in the Black’s New Testament Commentaries series (Continuum/ Hendrikson, 2005) and Hebrews: A Guide (T. & T. Clark International, 2006). With Dr. A. Paddison he edited the papers from a symposium on Christology and Scripture which was  published in 2007. Professor Lincoln has successfully supervised 23 PhDs and is interested in literary, historical and theological approaches to the New Testament and in the interplay among such approaches.

Professor Melissa Raphael-Levine

Melissa is Professor of Religious Theology at the University of Gloucestershire.  She has published numerous articles in the fields of religion and gender and feminist theology, specialising in the sacred/profane distinction in Western religion, Feminist Thealogy (sic) and Jewish Theology.She is the author of Rudolf Otto and the Concept of Holiness (Oxford University Press, 1997); Thealogy and Embodiment: The Post-Patriarchal Reconstruction of Female Sacrality (Sheffield Academic Press, 1996); Introducing Thealogy: Discourse on the Goddess (Sheffield Academic Press: 1999) and The Female Face of God in Auschwitz:A Jewish Feminist Theology of the Holocaust (Routledge, 2003), shortlisted for the Koret Jewish Book Award in 2004.  She has recently completed a study of Jewish theological aesthetics.

Professor Raphael is an Honorary Research Scholar at the University of Wales, Lampeter and sits on the International Board of The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion.   She also sits on the national committee of the Association of University Departments of Theology and Religious Studies.  Professor Raphael is a delegate of the British Government on the International Task Force for Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research.

Dr Dee Carter

Dee is Senior Lecturer in Religion, Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Gloucestershire. She has published various articles and book reviews in the areas of philosophy of religion and the interface between theology and contemporary issues. Her PhD was an engagement between central Christian theological doctrine and its application to contemporary environmental concerns, and her interests are in Christianity and the role of religion within society.

Dr Adrian Long

Adrian is Academic Advisor for the Open Theological College based at the University of Gloucestershire.  The subject of his doctoral thesis concerned Paul and human rights.

Dr Hilary Weekes

Dr Weeks is the Course Leader for English Literature. Her research and teaching interests are in nineteenth-century literature, especially poetry; Tennyson; Ruskin; Romantic-Victorian affinities; Tractarian writing; aesthetics; architecture and architectural writing; intermediality; religion; and European literary connections. She has published articles in Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia (New York and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003). Her article on Tennyson’s early travels to the Continent will shortly appear in A Sense of Home: Travel Writing and Transnational Identities, ed. Jan Borm, and she is currently working on a book about literature and architecture in the nineteenth century. Dr Weeks has also recently co-produced a guide to using online discussion boards in English Studies for the English Subject Centre, and takes a keen interest in University access education, lecturing to sixth-form students across the country. She is a member of the British Association of Victorian Studies, the Victorian Society, and the Tennyson Society, among others; and she is a research associate of the Laboratoire Suds d’Amériques at the University of Versailles.

Professor Philip Sheldrake

Philip has been extensively involved internationally over the last twenty years in the development of Christian spirituality as an interdisciplinary scholarly field and is a Past President of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality. With others, he is involved in moves to develop a specifically European network of spirituality scholars, representing all dimensions of the field. Professor Sheldrake has also been, or is, assessor or consultant for a number of graduate and doctoral programmes in spirituality in the USA, Canada, Ireland and Scandinavia. He is on the editorial boards of three leading English-language journals in the field of Christian spirituality and has been involved more generally in theological publishing, as General Editor of The Way international journal and its Supplements (1981-94) and as a Governor and Chair of the independent SCM Press Trust and Chair of the Editorial Board of SCM Press, London. He is the author or editor of several books, mainly in the field of academic spirituality, including Spirituality and History (1991/1996), Spirituality and Theology (1998) and Spaces for the Sacred: Place, Memory, Identity (2001)- the 1999 Hulsean Lectures in Cambridge. 2005 also saw the publication of the New Dictionary of Christian Spirituality, a five year project which he edited in collaboration with some 190 international contributors.

Professor Frances Young

Frances is Emeritus Professor of Theology at the University of Birmingham.  Of particular relevance to the Centre is her publication Brokenness and Blessing: Towards a Biblical Spirituality in 2007.