Dr Benjamin King is the Duncalf-Villavoso Professor of Church History, having joined Southwest in 2023. His current areas of research are the Oxford Movement, particularly the theology of John Henry Newman; the development of the Anglican Communion; and the Episcopal Church’s historic entanglement with slavery. He teaches the core courses in Church History as well as electives in Anglican theology and history.He is the author of two books. The first, Newman and the Alexandrian Fathers, won a Templeton Award for Theological Promise. The second is to be published soon under the title of The Oxford Movement and the People of God: Enslavement, Establishment, and Empire. He is also co-editor of Receptions of Newman and The Oxford Handbook of John Henry Newman. All these books are published by Oxford University Press.He has written numerous articles and lectured internationally. He has contributed on Anglican topics to the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church and serves on the editorial board of the journal Anglican and Episcopal History. Dr King has been an Episcopal priest since 2000 and, as well as being a professor, has served in parish and campus ministry.
BA, MA, Cambridge University
ThM, Harvard Divinity School
PhD, Durham University