The Rt Revd & Rt Hon The Lord Rowan Williams of Oystermouth FBA

Theology
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1990
Subjects
Religion

Summary

Rowan Williams is the Master of Magdalen College, University of Cambridge. He served as the Archbishop of Wales from 2000 to 2002 and as the Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012. He was made a life peer in 2013 and is now Lord Williams of Oystermouth.

Current post

Master of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge

Past appointments

Magdalene College University of Cambridge Master

2013 -

Archbishop of Canterbury

2002 - 2012

Archbishop of Wales

2000 - 2002

Bishop of Monmouth

1992 - 2000

University of Oxford Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity

1986 - 1992

Clare College, University of Cambridge Fellow and Dean

1984 - 1986

University of Cambridge University Lecturer in Theology

1980 - 1986

Publications

Dostoevsky: language, faith and fiction

Rowan Williams - Published in 2009 by Bloomsbury

On Christian theology

Rowan Williams - Published in 2000 by Wiley Blackwell

Teresa of Avila

Rowan Williams - Published in 1991 by Bloomsbury

Arius: heresy and tradition

Rowan Williams - Published in 1987 by Eerdmans

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Dr Claudia Rapp FBA

Cultural, religious and social history of Late Antiquity and Byzantium

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Professor David Shulman FBA

Pre-modern South Asian history and cultural history; languages and literatures of southern India (Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada); Sanskrit language and literature; Carnatic music; history of religion in South India; Tamil Islam; South Asian poetics; Sri Lankan Tamil

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Revd Professor David Brown FBA

Theology and the Arts, Philosophical Theology, Christian Doctrine

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