Paul Fiddes
Paul Stuart Fiddes | |
|---|---|
| Principal of Regent's Park College, Oxford | |
| In office 1989–2007 | |
| Preceded by | B. R. White |
| Succeeded by | Robert Ellis (theologian) |
| Professor of Systematic Theology, Oxford | |
| In office 2002–2014 | |
| Succeeded by | Johannes Zachuber |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 30 April 1947 |
| Nationality | English |
| Education | Drayton Manor Grammar School |
| Alma mater | St Peter's College, Oxford Regent's Park College, Oxford Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen |
| Known for | Principal of Regent's Park College, Oxford Chairman of Theology Faculty, Oxford Professor of Systematic Theology, Oxford |
| Awards | Hon DD Bucharest 2004 Hon Fellow St Peter's College, Oxford 2004 Ecumenical Prebendary St Endellion 2012 Hon Ecumenical Canon Christ Church 2012 For the Sake of the Church (Festschrift) (2014) Within the Love of God (Festschrift) (2014) Fellow of the British Academy (2020) |
| Website | Professor Paul Fiddes |
| Writing career | |
| Notable works | The Creative Suffering of God (Oxford, 1988) |
Paul Stuart Fiddes FBA (born 30 April 1947) is an English Baptist theologian and novelist.
Fiddes is Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology in the University of Oxford, Principal Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow of Regent's Park College, Oxford (where he is director of the Project for the Study of Love in Religion), and a former chairman of the Oxford Faculty of Theology.
Fiddes has been described as "one of the leading contemporary Baptist theologians", "one of the leading scholars of theology and literature writing today", "one of Christianity's most distinguished scholars", and "one of the foremost theological thinkers of the modern age". His book The Creative Suffering of God is "considered to be one of the major contributions to theology in the last decades of the 20th century".