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REVD DR JEREMY N MORRIS MA, DPhil   Graduate Mentor, Dean and Chaplain, Secretary to the Governing Body, Robert Runcie Fellow and Director of Studies in Theology.

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Dr Jeremy Morris is Dean, Chaplain, Robert Runcie Fellow, and Director of Studies in Theology. He is also currently Secretary to the Governing Body, and a Graduate Mentor.

After studying for his first degree in Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford, and for his doctorate, he worked in management consultancy and university management before reading Theology at Clare College, Cambridge, and training for the Anglican ordained ministry at Westcott House. He was curate at St Mary's, Battersea, before returning to Cambridge in 1996 as Director of Studies and then Vice-Principal of Westcott House. He was appointed to Trinity Hall in 2001.  He is a Senior Associate of the Cambridge Theological Federation, an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

His academic interests include modern European church history, Anglican theology and ecclesiology (especially High Anglicanism), the ecumenical movement, and arguments about religion and secularization.  He is interested in supervising graduate students in these fields, and in the area of modern religious history in general.  His current research projects include a study of the eucharist in Western Europe since 1800, to be published by Oxford University Press, a short study of Anglican relations with the continent of Europe, and a study of modern ecumenical method and ecclesiology. 

His publications include: Religion and Urban Change: Croydon 1840-1914 (1992), Catholicism and Folk Religion (1995), The Unity We Have and the Unity We Seek: Ecumenical Prospects for the Third Millennium (edited, with N Sagovsky, 2003), F D Maurice and the Crisis of Christian Authority (2005), and The Church in the Modern Age (2007, also published as Das Christentum im 20. Jahrhundert.  Kirche zwischen Politik und Gesellschaft, 2008), as well as numerous articles in learned journals.  In 2005 he was the Gore Memorial Lecturer at Birmingham Cathedral and Westminster Abbey, speaking on ‘Public Truth or Private Conviction? The Christian Church, Pluralism and Establishment in the Twentieth Century’.

His Church commitments currently include membership of the Faith and Order Advisory Group of the Church of England, the Anglican-Old Catholic Co-ordinating Council, and the Steering Committee of the Porvoo Study Network.  He was editor of Third Millennium, the journal of Affirming Catholicism, from 1996 to 2005.  He is enthusiastic about his family, ecumenical friendship, history, literature, music (most kinds, but not Kylie or hip-hop), cooking, and spaghetti westerns - amongst other things.  He is married to Alex, and they have three children – Isobel, William, and Ursula.

Selected publications

Single-authored books:

The Church in the Modern Age (I B Tauris, 2007, also published as Das Christentumim 20. Jahrhundert.  Kirche zwischen Politik und Gesellschaft, Kreuz Verlag, 2008)

F D Maurice and the Crisis of Christian Authority (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Renewed by the Word: The Bible and Christian Revival since the Reformation (John Hunt/Hendrickson, 2005)

Catholicism and Folk Religion (DLT, 1995)

Religion and Urban Change.  Croydon 1840-1914 (Boydell and Brewer, 1992)

Edited books:

An Acceptable Sacrifice? Homosexuality and the Church (edited, with D Dormor) (SPCK, 2007)

To Build Christ’s Kingdom: an F D Maurice Reader (SCM/Canterbury Press, 2007)

The Unity We Have and the Unity We Seek: Ecumenical Prospects for the ThirdMillennium (edited, with N Sagovsky) (Continuum, 2003)

Articles:

‘George Ridding and the Diocese of Southwell: a Study in the National Church Ideal’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History (forthcoming)

‘French Catholics and the Oxford Movement’, in W N Yates (ed), The Oxford Movement and the Wider World (forthcoming)

‘Porvoo: the longue durée – an Anglican background’, in J Rusama (ed), Together in Mission and Ministry (forthcoming, in the Nordic Ecumenical Studies Series)

‘F D Maurice and Anglo-Catholic Social Action’, in A Davidson (ed), Renewing theChurch (forthcoming, Ashgate)

‘Newman, the Common Tradition, and the unity of the Church’, in A Gerolin (ed), John Henry Newman oggi: logos e dialogo (forthcoming)

'Religion in Modern Gwent' in A Croll and C Williams (eds), Gwent County History Vol 5  Modern Gwent (forthcoming)

‘Europe’s inner vacuum: religion and the unmaking of Europe’, in L’Atlantide (2008) (published as ‘Il vuoto interiore dell’Europa’)

‘Introduction’ and ‘The Church and Change: Tradition and Development’, in D Dormor & J Morris (eds), An Acceptable Sacrifice?  The Church andHomosexuality (2007)

‘The Spirit of Comprehension: Examining the Broad Church Synthesis’, Anglican and Episcopal History (2006)

‘Whose history?  Historical method and ecclesiology in ecumenical context’, Ecclesiology (2005)

'The Oxford Movement' and 'Anglo-Catholic Spirituality' in P Sheldrake (ed), The New Dictionary of Spirituality (SCM, 2005)

'An infallible fact-factory going full blast': Austin Farrer, Marian doctrine and the travails of Anglo-Catholicism', in R N Swanson (ed) Studies in ChurchHistory, vol 39 (2004)

'The Text as Sacrament: Broad Church Philology', in R N Swanson (ed), Studies in Church History, vol 38 (2004)

'The strange death of Christian Britain: another look at the secularisation debate', The Historical Journal, vol 46 (2003)

'The Future of Church and State', in J Caddick, D Dormor, & J McDonald (eds), Anglicanism - the answer to modernity (Continuum, 2003)

'The Unity We Seek: Prospects for the Local Church', in J N Morris & N Sagovsky (eds), The Unity We Have and the Unity We Seek: Ecumenical Prospects for

the Third Millennium (Continuum, 2003)

'Newman and Maurice on the Via Media of the Anglican Church: Contrasts and Affinities' in Anglican Theological Review, vol 85 (2003)

'Peering into the void: Edward Norman and the Future of the Church of England', in Third Millennium (2002)

'The Nature and Purpose of the Church: An Anglican Response', in MD:Materialdienst des Konfessionskundlichen Instituts Bensheim (2002)

'A Social Doctrine of the Trinity?  A Reappraisal of F D Maurice on Eternal Life', Anglican and Episcopal History, vol 69 (2000)

'A "fluffy-minded Prayer Book fundamentalist?"  F D Maurice and the Anglican Liturgy', in R N Swanson (ed), Studies in Church History, vol 35 (1999)

'John White and Anglican Theological Education: A Reply', Anglican Theological Review (1998) (response to John White, 'A Future for Anglican Ministerial Education: Some Personal Reflections', ATR 79, 1997)

'Modernity, History and Urban Theology', Theology, vol 100 (1997)

'Luther, Maurice and the Doctrine of Justification: Reinventing the Reformation', in R N Swanson (ed.), The Church Retrospective (Studies in Church History,

vol 33) (1997)

'The Regional Growth of Tractarianism: Some Reflections', in P Vaiss (ed), From Oxford to the People.  Reconsidering Newman and the Oxford Movement

(1996)

'Can we over-emphasize God's immanence in creation?  Looking from Primavesi to Moltmann', Theology in Green, vol 4 (1994)

'Religious Experience in the Philosophical Theology of Austin Farrer', Journal of Theological Studies, vol 45 (1994)

'The Origins and Growth of Primitive Methodism in East Surrey', Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society, vol 48 (1992)

'Church and People Thirty-Three Years On: A Historical Critique', Theology, vol 94 (1991)

Third Millennium was issued as themed books under the following titles:            

Faith and Freedom: Exploring Radical Orthodoxy (2003)

A Questioning Authority: The Anglican Witness to the World (2002)

In and Out of Service: Priesthood and its Problems (2001)

Ask and Receive: How Liturgy responds to Life (2000)

Vision or Revision: Seeing through the Sacraments (2000)

Sex and the Christian Tradition (1999)