CURRICULUM VITAE
DR. IAN MARKHAM
Dean of the Seminary and Professor of Theology and Ethics
Hartford Seminary
77 Sherman Street
Hartford, CT 06105-2260
TEL: (860) 509-9536 FAX: (860)
509-9509
Email: markham@hartsem.edu
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:
Ph.D. in Christian Ethics - University of Exeter.(1995)
M.Litt. in Philosophy and Ethics - University of Cambridge.
(1986-1989)
B.D. in Theology - University of London. (1982-1985)
APPOINTMENTS:
August 2001 to present: Dean of Hartford Seminary and Professor of
Theology and Ethics
December 1998-July 2001: Foundation Dean and Liverpool Professor of
Theology and Public Life at Liverpool Hope University College.
September 1996-December 1998: Liverpool Professor of Theology and
Public Life at Liverpool Hope University College.
September 1989-August 1996: Lecturer in Theology at University of
Exeter. Duties at Exeter included: Sub-Dean, Faculty of Arts; Validator
of MA in Applied Theology, College of St. Marks and St. Johns.
OTHER POSITIONS:
Member of an Accreditation Visiting Team for NEASC at Holy Apostles College and Seminary October 2005
Taskforce on the Integrity Standard for the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. 2004
Management Committee of the Interfaith Foundation. Active patrons
(i.e. attend most meetings) Prince Hussan, Prince Philip, and Sir Evelyn
Rothschild.
Council Member and Director of the Advertising Standards Authority.
1993-1999.
Committee Member of the Lambeth Diploma Committee 1995-1998.
Associate Editor of Teaching Religion and Theology (Blackwell Publishing) 1997-2001.
Editor Theological Book Review 1998-2001.
Chair: Knowsley Early Years Partnership Forum: October 1997 – 2001.
Director: Engaging the Curriculum. 1996 - Finish Jan 1999.
Board Social Responsibility, Liverpool. November 1997-2001.
Panel Bishops’ Inspectors. November 1997-2001.
Trustee: Christian Theology Trust. November 1997-2001. Chairman: Christian Theology Trust. March 2000 2001.
Treasurer and Trustee of the SCM Press Trust. 1998-1999.
2nd April 1998: Editorial board member of the journal ‘Political Theology’ edited by Graeme Smith & Alison Webster.
Convenor of the Forum on Religion and Theology 1997.
EXTERNAL RECOGNITION
- December 2004: Teape Lectures. Series of three lectures delivered in India (St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and Bishop’s College, Calcutta).
- Award from the Yale Centre for Faith & Culture (based at Yale Divinity School) – one of the 2004 winners of a competition for creativity in teaching future church leaders ways of living faith and values in all spheres of life. Course title: ‘Daily Space with God: the Practices of Personal Devotions in Mainline Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Evangelical Traditions.’
- March 2004: ‘Social Identity Series’: Speaker on ‘Religion, Tolerance and Social Identity’ at the University of Kentucky.
- January 2001: The Teape Seminars. University of Cambridge.
- April to June 2000: Claggett Fellow. Research appointment attached to the Washington National Cathedral.
- 10th November 1997: Participant at the Interfaith Foundation Meeting in Amman, Jordon.
- 12th July - 17th August 1997: (Frank Woods Fellow) Trinity College: Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
- July - September 1991: Visiting Research Fellow at The Institute on Religion and Public Life in New York.
GRANT WORK
- ‘Teaching Dialogue’. Project Director for a $37,000 grant in Teaching and Learning from the Wabash Centre for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion.
TEACHING.
Courses taught.
Hartford Seminary:
Dmin Level:
- Colleague Seminar II: The art of ministry in congregations.
- Are we all heaven bound? Christian Theology and Religious Diversity.
MA Level:
- Constructive Theology
- Historical Theology.
- Improving the Worship Experience: Music, Theology, and Worship
- Learning from Others.
- Modern Theology
- Daily Space with God
- Religion and Conspiracy Theories
Liverpool Hope University College:
Undergraduate:
- Interfaith Ethics
- Ecumenical Ethics
- Christian Theology: An Introduction
Postgraduate:
- Conflict and Convergence in Interfaith
- Research Methodology
- Liberals and Conservatives: the New Divide
- Radical Christianity.
University of Exeter:
Undergraduate:
- Introduction to Theological Questions
- Philosophical Questions about Religion
- Christian Ethics
- Christianity and Other Religions
- MA Methodology in Theology
Postgraduate:
- British Theology in Context
Certificate:
- 2nd Year Certificate in Theology
PUBLICATIONS.
Monographs
- Plurality and Christian Ethics, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) xiv + 221pp.
Revised edition November 1999 with SevenBridgesPress.
- Truth and the Reality of God (Edinburgh: T&T Clark 1998 ) x + 145pp.
- A Theology of Engagement (Oxford: Blackwell 2003) xi + 244pp.
Textbooks
- A World Religions Reader (Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1996) 367pp.
- Encountering Religion. Joint editor with Tinu Ruparell. (Oxford: Blackwell 2001) 382pp.
Practical Theology
- The Godparent’s Handbook Co-authored with Giles Legood (London: SPCK) 136pp.
- A Church Wedding Handbook Co-authored with Giles Legood (London: SPCK 2000) 151pp.
- The Funeral Handbook Co-authored with Giles Legood (London: SPCK 2003) American edition Christian Hope, Christian Practice: A Funeral Guide (Hendrickson 2004)
Edited Collections
- A Middle WayJoint editor with John Elford. (London: SCM Press 2000) 303pp. Contributed a chapter entitled ‘Ronald Preston and the Contemporary Ethical Scene’ p257-265.
- Theological Liberalism. Creative and Critical. Joint editor with J’annine Jobling. (London: SPCK 2000).
- September 11: Religious Perspectives on the Causes and Consequences Joint editor with Ibrahim Abu-Rabi. (Oxford: Oneworld 2002) 292pp. Contributed a chapter entitled ‘9:11. Contrasting reactions and the challenge of dialogue’.
- Globalization, Ethics and Islam: The Case of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (Aldershot: Ashgate 2005) 212pp. Joint editor with Ibrahim Ozdemir. Contributed two chapters ‘Religious or Secular: the ethics of Said Nursi’ and ‘Rethinking Globalization: Bediuzzaman Said Nursi’s Risale-I Nur in conversation with Empire by Hardt and Negri’
- Why Liberal Churches are Growing?. Joint editor with Martyn Percy. Contributed one chapter ‘Two conditions for a growing liberal church.’
In press
- Why Bother with Ethics? (Blackwell Publishing) Due out November 2006.
ARTICLES.
- Response to Steven Kepnes’ in Iqbal Review: Journal of Iqbal Academy of Pakistan, April, October 2005.
- ‘Truth and Toleration: Hebblethwaite, Hick, and Bediuzzaman Said Nursi’, in Julius Lipner (ed.) Truth, Religious Dialogue and Dynamic Orthodoxy, (London: SCM Press 2005)
- ‘Global Peace and Justice: The Christian Perspective’ in Policy Perspectives Volume 2, April 2005, No.1
- ‘Zins V. Ethisch’ in Theologische Realenzyklopädie (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 2004) pp.687-691.
- ‘Christianity and Other Religions’ in Gareth Jones (ed.) The Blackwell Companion to Modern Theology (Oxford: Blackwells 2003), pp.405-17.
- Two articles appeared in Leslie Houlden (ed.) Jesus in History, Thought, and Culture: An Encyclopedia called ‘Modern Ethics’ and ‘North American Christianity’.
- ‘Theology that sells’ – editorial in Conversations in Religion and Theology, pp. 115-123
- Three short articles ‘belief’, ‘religion’, and ‘pluralism’, in Wesley Carr (ed.) The New Dictionary of Pastoral Studies (SPCK 2002).
- ‘The Politics of Inclusivity’ in Humanitas. The Journal of the George Bell Institute 2 (2) 2001: 139-156.
- ‘A Sermon from Oxford’, in Modern Believing, 42 (1) 2001:
- ‘Demant, Vigo Auguste’ (1893-1983) in Trevor A. Hart (ed.) The Dictionary of Historical Theology (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans 2000) p.155-6.
- ‘Religion’ in Encyclopedia of Nationalism Volume 1. San Diego Academic Press 2001: 631-636.
- ‘The Meaning and the Ends of Teaching Religion’ in Teaching Religion and Theology 3 (1) 1998:135-138
- ‘Ethical and Legal issues’ in British Medical Bulletin 54 (4) 1998:1011-1021
- ‘Spirituality and the world faiths’ in Mark Cobb and Vanessa Robshaw (ed.) The Spiritual Challenge of Health Care (London: Churchill Livingstone 1998) pp 73-87.
- ‘Religion and Ethics’ in Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, Volume 3 (Academic Press 1998) pp799-808.
- ‘A Defence of Unemployment and the Future of Work’ in M.Brown and P.Sedgwick (eds.) Putting Theology to work: A Theological Symposium on Unemployment and the Future of Work. pp.17-21.
- ‘Shades of Grey: The Pope, Christian Ethics, and the Ambiguity of Human Situations’ in Briefing, July 1997. pp 28-40.
- ‘Tapping Alternative Traditions: Culture not Economics’ in Crucible, Jan/March 1997. pp 2-14.
- ‘Toleration and “Engaging the Curriculum”’ in Engaging the Curriculum Bulletin. (Council of Church and Associated Colleges), Issue No.4, Sept. 1996. pp3-5. To be reprinted in Adrian Thatcher (ed.) Theology in Dialogue: Spirituality - an Introduction.
- 'Theological Problems and Israel' in A Christian-Jewish Dialogue: A Reader edited by Helen Fry. (Exeter: Exeter University Press 1996)pp123-126.
- 'An Open Orthodoxy', Reviews in Religion and Theology, (2) 1995:42-46
- 'Creating Options: Shattering the Exclusivist, Inclusivist, and Pluralist' Paradigm', New Blackfriars, 74 (867) 1993: 33-41.
- 'Teaching Theology in a Modern University', Theology, 94 (760) 1991:260-269.
- 'Faith and Reason: Reflections on MacIntyre's 'Tradition-Constituted Enquiry', Religious Studies, 27 1991:259-267. Reprinted in J.Astley and L. J. Francis (eds.) Critical Perspectives on Christian Education (Leominster: Gracewing 1994)484-93.
- 'Hume Revisted: A Problem with the Free Will Defence', Modern Theology, 7 (3) 1991:281-290.
- 'World Perspectives and Arguments: Disagreements about Disagreements', Heythrop Journal, 30 (1) 1989:1-12.
- ‘Spirituality in a tradition: A Response to the Errickers’ in Adrian Thatcher (ed.) Theology in Dialogue: Spirituality - an Introduction (London: Cassells). Due November.
POPULAR ARTICLES
- ‘Did Bush Cooperate with Terrorists? Making Conspiracy Theories Respectable can be dangerous,’ in Zion’s Herald November 2004.
- ‘Conversing with Islam: A Visit with the Pat Robertson of Pakistan’ in Zion’s Herald March/April 2004 178 (2) :33-34
- ‘The way to God is paved with disagreement’ in the Face to Faith column in The Guardian. March 20th 1998
- ‘Feuding Theologians do not help’ in The Independent January 30th 1998.
- ‘Modern Theology: Biblical Picture of Providence’. Farmington Papers. 1997. pp 1 - 8
- ‘The Ontological Argument’ in Dialogue, a journal for Religious Studies and Philosophy: Issue No7, November 1996. pp 3-10.
- ‘Why should we suppose that our own death is any different from that of a pet cat or a squashed hedgehog? Questions People Ask. Is there really a life after death?’ in Expository Times 107 (6) 1996:164-169
