Ralph Waller
The Reverend Sir Ralph Waller KBE | |
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Personal details | |
Born | 11 December 1945 |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater |
University of London University of Nottingham King's College London |
Sir Ralph Waller KBE (born 11 December 1945) is a British academic and Methodist minister. He is Director of the Farmington Institute for Christian Studies and former Principal of Harris Manchester College, Oxford (1988-2018).
Ralph Waller was born in Lincolnshire and educated at the University of London (BD) and the University of Nottingham (MTh) and completed a PhD at King's College London with a thesis entitled James Martineau: his emergence as a theologian, his christology and his doctrine of the Church, with some unpublished papers (1987). He is a Master of Arts of the University of Oxford. He is an ordained minister in the Methodist Church of Great Britain.
He holds honorary doctorates from Menlo College (DLitt), Uppsala University (DTheol), Ball State University (DHum), Hartwick College (DD 2003), and St Olaf College (DHum).
Publications
- Ralph Waller and Benedicta Ward, eds, An introduction to Christian spirituality (London: SPCK, 1999)
- Benedicta Ward and Ralph Waller, eds, Joy of heaven: springs of Christian spirituality (London: SPCK, 2003)
- Ralph Waller, John Wesley: a personal portrait (London: SPCK, 2003)
- Ralph Waller, James Martineau revisited (Oxford: Farmington Institute for Christian Studies, 2004)