Emeritus Research Fellow in Theology at St John’s College
My research interests are in practical theology and Christian spirituality. My first career was in medicine, working for a year on the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada and then for seven years, 1975-81, in Soweto, South Africa. After a second BA and D.Phil in Theology, I worked in spirituality, theological education, peacebuilding and community development in the Diocese of Johannesburg 1991-96. I became Chaplain, Fellow and Tutor in Theology at St John’s in 1996, and in 2004 published Friendship: Interpreting Christian Love, a history of the interpretation of ‘agape’ as friendship-love in the western Christian tradition.