Robert Ellis (theologian)

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Principal of Regent's Park College, Oxford
In office 2007–2021
Preceded by	Paul Fiddes
Succeeded by	Malcolm Evans
Personal details
Born	Robert Anthony Ellis (1956-08-24) 24 August 1956 (age 67) Bristol Baptist College Regent's Park College, Oxford Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford

Robert Anthony Ellis (born 24 August 1956) is a British academic and

from 2007 to 2021.

Biography

Robert Ellis was born in

Ellis also plays a major role in Training and Formation for Baptist Ministers' training at the College.

He has expertise in pastoral theology and systematic theology, the theology of intercession, and Christianity and culture - especially theology and film, and theology and sport. He serves on the Advisory Committee of the Vatican-sponsored programme 'Sport at the Service of Humanity.'^[2]

He delivered the McCandless Lecture at

in 2005 and again in 2010.

He has been Moderator of the

Ministry Executive, and currently serves on the Baptist Steering group and Baptist Union of Great Britain Council.

His nephew is the actor Tom Ellis.

Works

Theses

• Ellis, Robert A. (1984). Can God Act in History? A Whiteheadian Perspective (Ph.D.).
  OCLC 499852545
  .
• ——— (2004). Teaching Theology in the Academy: Preparing Men and Women for Ministry (Postgraduate Diploma in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education). University of Oxford.

Books

• ——— (2005). Answering God: Towards a Theology of Intercession. Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster.
  OCLC 58482871
  .
• ——— (2014). The Games People Play: Theology, Religion, and Sport. Eugene OR: Wipf & Stock.
  OCLC 892430480
  .

As editor

• ———;
  OCLC 1029110642
  .

Chapters in books

• ——— (2002). "Covenant and Creation". In
  ISBN 0953974812
  .
• ——— (2005). "Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Reading Films". In
  Fiddes, Paul S.
  (eds.). Flickering Images: Theology and Film in Dialogue. Oxford: Regent's Park College.
• ——— (2005). "Pondering Providence: Sliding Doors". In
  Fiddes, Paul S.
  (eds.). Flickering Images: Theology and Film in Dialogue. Oxford: Regent's Park College.
• ——— (2009). "Baptist Ministers as Leaders". In
  OCLC 700526743
  .
• ——— (2012). "Play up! Play up! And play the game: cricket and our place in the world". In Finamore, Stephen; Weaver, John (eds.). Wisdom, Science and the Scriptures: Essays in Honour of Ernest Lucas. Bristol: Regents Park College. pp. 243–62.
• ——— (2016). "Film Noir and the Bible". In Burnette-Bletsch, Rhonda (ed.). The Bible in Motion: A Handbook of the Bible and its Reception in Film. Boston, MS: De Gruyter.
• ——— (2017). "Help us to search for Truth: Baptists and Doing Theology". In
  ISBN 9781498231572
  .

Articles in journals

• ——— (October 1981). "From Hegel to Whitehead". The Journal of Religion. 61 (4): 403–421.
  S2CID 170809016
  .
• ——— (January 1982). "How Relative Should Theology Be?". Baptist Quarterly. 29 (5).
• ——— (January 1985). "God's Adventure of Love: an introduction to some leading ideas of Process Theology, and their pastoral implications". The Fraternal.
• ——— (April 1987). "God and History: an essay on the interface of theological and historical methods". Baptist Quarterly.
• ——— (1989). "God and Action". Religious Studies. 24 (4): 463–481.
  S2CID 170185539
  .
• ——— (1990). "The Vulnerability of Action". Religious Studies. 25 (2): 225–233.
  S2CID 170179021
  .
• ——— (May 1992). "Preaching Christ Crucified". Epworth Review.
• ——— (April 1999). "Gathered at the Table: Reflections on the Lord's Supper". Baptist Ministers' Journal.
• ——— (July 2000). "On a journey of the Spirit". Baptist Ministers' Journal.
• ——— (June 2001). "Movies and Meaning – an introduction to theology in secular film". Expository Times.
• ——— (2005). "Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy: The Pastor and the suffering God". Transformation. 22 (3): 166–175.
  S2CID 171224692
  .
• ——— (2007). "And the Life Everlasting: A Theological Reflection on Death and Dying". Transformation. 24 (2): 86–94.
  S2CID 142162946
  .
• ——— (2009). "Bringing out the Meaning: Deacy, Nolan, Scorcese and what films "mean"". The Journal of Religion and Film. 13 (2).
• ——— (2012). "Faster, Higher, Stronger: – Sport and the point of it all". Anvil. 28 (1).
• ——— (2012). "The meanings of sport: an empirical study into the significance attached to sporting participation and spectating in the UK and US". Practical Theology. 5 (2).
• ——— (Autumn 2015). "The Church as Praying Community". International Congregational Journal. 14 (2).

Sources

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

References

Academic offices
Preceded by Paul Fiddes	Principal of Regent's Park College, Oxford 2007–2021	Succeeded by Sir Malcolm Evans