Christopher Charles Rowland (born 21 May 1947) is an English Anglican priest and theologian. He was Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford from 1991 to 2014. ^[1]

Life

Rowland was born on 21 May 1947 in Doncaster, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and was educated at Doncaster Grammar School. He then studied at Christ's College, Cambridge, and for ordination in the Church of England at Ridley Hall, Cambridge.

He was ordained deacon in 1975 and priest in 1976, serving as curate at two parishes in the Newcastle upon Tyne area ( Benwell 1975–1978, Gosforth 1978–1979). Between 1974 and 1979, he lectured in religious studies at Newcastle University, returning to Cambridge as a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1979. He was an assistant lecturer in divinity at the university from 1983 to 1985, then lecturer from 1985 to 1991. ^[2]

In 1991, he was appointed Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford, a post that carries with it a fellowship at The Queen's College, Oxford. He retired from Oxford in 2014 and was appointed professor emeritus. ^[3] He was appointed Canon Theologian of Liverpool Cathedral in 2005. ^[2]

He influenced the scholars Michael J. Gorman ^[4] and Robin Griffith-Jones ^[5]

Works

Books

• Rowland, Christopher C. (1982). The Open Heaven: a study of apocalyptic in Judaism and early Christianity. New York: Crossroad. ISBN  978-0-824-50455-7. OCLC  8410967.
• ——— (1985). Christian Origins: an account of the setting and character of the most important messianic sect of Judaism. London: SPCK. ISBN  978-0-281-04110-7. OCLC  13004836.
• ——— (1985). Christian Origins: from Messianic movement to Christian religion. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing. ISBN  978-0-806-62173-9. OCLC  12131161. - differently titled US edition
• ——— (1988). Radical Christianity: a reading of recovery. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. ISBN  978-0-883-44370-5. OCLC  17806833.
• ———; Rogerson, J. W.; Lindars, Barnabas (1988). The Study and Use of the Bible. History of Christian Theology. Vol. 2. Basingstoke, Hants, UK ; Grand Rapids, MI: Marshall Pickering ; Eerdmans. ISBN  978-0-802-80196-8. OCLC  17549749.
• ———; Corner, Mark (1989). Liberating Exegesis: the challenge of liberation theology to Biblical studies. Louisville, KY: Westminster, John Knox Press. ISBN  978-0-664-25084-3. OCLC  20800546.
• ——— (1993). Revelation. Epworth Commentaries. London: Epworth Press. ISBN  978-0-716-20493-0. OCLC  32857756.
• ———; Ashton, John; Fletcher-Louis, Crispin H. T., eds. (1998). Understanding, studying, and reading: New Testament essays in honour of John Ashton. Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Supplement Series. Vol. 153. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press. ISBN  978-1-850-75828-0. OCLC  44685561.
• ———; Edwards, M. J.; Goodman, Martin; Price, S. R. F., eds. (1999). Apologetics in the Roman Empire: pagans, Jews, and Christians. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN  978-0-198-26986-1. OCLC  40158874.
• ———, ed. (1999). The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology. Cambridge Companions to Religion. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN  978-0-521-46144-3. OCLC  39122856.
• ———; Bradstock, Andrew, eds. (2002). Radical Christian Writings: a reader. Oxford ; Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. ISBN  978-0-631-22249-1. OCLC  48100595.
• ———; Barton, John, eds. (2002). Apocalyptic in History and Tradition. Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, Supplement Series. Vol. 43. London: Sheffield Academic Press. ISBN  978-0-826-46208-4. OCLC  51568109.
• ———; Kovacs, Judith L. (2004). Revelation: the Apocalypse of Jesus Christ. Blackwell Bible Commentaries. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN  978-0-631-23214-8. OCLC  52922297.
• ———; Tuckett, Christopher M., eds. (2006). The Nature of New Testament Theology: essays in honour of Robert Morgan. Malden, MA ; Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN  978-1-405-11175-1. OCLC  60741978.
• ——— (2007). "Wheels within wheels": William Blake and the Ezekiel's merkabah in text and image. Père Marquette lecture in theology, 2007. Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press. ISBN  978-0-874-62587-5. OCLC  81860428.
• ———; Morray-Jones, Christopher R. A. (2009). The Mystery of God: early Jewish mysticism and the New Testament. Compendia rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum, Section 3: Jewish traditions in early Christian literature. Vol. 12. Leiden ; Boston: Brill. ISBN  978-9-004-17532-7. OCLC  316736889.
• ——— (2010). Blake and the Bible. London ; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN  978-0-300-11260-3. OCLC  449853455.

Articles

• ——— (1980). "The Vision of the Risen Christ in Rev i.13 ff.: The Debt of an Early Christology to an Aspect of Jewish Angelology". Journal of Theological Studies. 31: 1–11.

Festschriften

• Bennett, Zoë; Gowler, David B., eds. (2012). Radical Christian Voices and Practice: Essays in Honour of Christopher Rowland. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN  978-0-19-959977-6.
• Knight, Jonathan; Sullivan, Kevin P., eds. (2015). The Open Mind: essays in honour of Christopher Rowland. Library of New Testament Studies. Vol. 522. London: T & T Clark. ISBN  978-0-567-65851-7. OCLC  890393310.
• Ashton, John, ed. (2014). Revealed Wisdom: studies in Apocalyptic in honour of Christopher Rowland. Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity. Vol. 88. Boston, MA: Brill. ISBN  978-9-004-27203-3. OCLC  872222399.

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