Professor Frances Young FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 2004
- Subjects
- Religion
- Sections
- Theology and Religious Studies
Summary
A graduate in Classics from Bedford College, University of London, Frances Young achieved a second 1st class Honours degree in Theology at the University of Cambridge, where she undertook research for a PhD in early Christian studies, for part of which she studied at the University of Chicago Divinity School. A brief period as a Research Fellow at Clare Hall preceded a lifelong career at the University of Birmingham (1971-2005), as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Professor, Dean of the Faculty and Pro-Vice-Chancellor. Her teaching career principally focused on New Testament studies, but her research interests spanned a wider area. The history and interpretation of doctrine and early Christian exegesis of scripture, along with questions concerning the hermeneutics of classic texts in modern theology, have largely claimed her attention. She was also a pioneer in thinking about theology and disability: her eldest son, born in 1968, has profound learning disabilities which demand total care. The importance of academic study of theology for church life and Christian belief lay at the heart of her ordination as a Methodist minister in 1984 alongside her continuing university career. In retirement she remains in demand for public lectures, preaching and leading worship.
Current post
Emeritus Professor, University of Birmingham
Past appointments
University of Birmingham Emeritus Professor, University of Birmingham
2006 -
University of Birmingham Emeritus Professor, University of Birmingham
2006 -
University of Birmingham Pro-Vice-Chancellor
1997 - 2002
University of Birmingham Dean of the Faculty of Arts
1995 - 1997
University of Birmingham Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology and Head of Department of Theology
1986 - 2005
University of Birmingham Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology, University of Birmingham
1986 -
University of Birmingham Senior Lecturer
1982 - 1986
University of Birmingham Lecturer
1971 - 1982
Clare Hall University of Cambridge Research Fellow
1967 - 1969
Publications
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Alec Ryrie is a historian of Protestant Christianity in general and of religion in early modern England and Scotland in particular. He is interested in the cultural, social, political and emotional history of religion, and has written on subjects including faith and doubt; martyrdom, violence and religious warfare; magic and deception; moderation and radicalism; childhood religious experience; and liturgy and prayer, formal and informal. He is currently researching the early history of global Protestant missions. He is co-editor of the Journal of Ecclesiastical History and (in 2019-20) president of the Ecclesiastical History Society. He is also a licensed Reader in the Church of England.
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