WYCLIFFE HALL, OXFORD

'Wycliffe Hall, Oxford' is a Church of England theological college and a Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is located on the Banbury Road in central North Oxford, between Norham Gardens and Norham Road.
Wycliffe Hall provides theological training for candidates for ordained ministry in the Church of England as well as other Anglican and non-Anglican churches. The college also prepares people for lay ministry. There are also a number of independent and undergraduate students reading theology. The college offers both full-time and part-time study.

Contents

History

Alumni

Academics and teachers

References

External links

History

Wycliffe Hall was established in 1877 as a centre for training Christian leaders and is named after the religious leader, John Wycliffe. It became a Permanent Private Hall of the university in 1996. It is a centre for Evangelical Anglican study in the University of Oxford.
As part of its joining with the University, Wycliffe Hall now also offers courses in academic theology and has a limited number of both undergraduates and postgraduates. It was established alongside Ridley Hall, Cambridge as a pair of theological colleges with an expressly Evangelical ethos.^[1]
In 2005, Richard Turnbull was appointed as Principal.
On 16 May 2007, The Guardian newspaper reported on discontent within the college faculty at the leadership style of the current Principal. It notes that an irregularly large number of resignations from staff in the college had occurred since Turnbull's appointment. The article cites the contents of a resignation letter by a former Director of Studies and tutor in Old Testament and Hebrew. According to the Guardian, the letter accused the Principal of intending "…to exercise leadership without significant regard for your staff colleagues." The article claims that the college has been accused of becoming "…more hostile to women's ordination and more homophobic since the appointment of its principal." Turnbull declined to comment on the allegations on the basis that internal investigations and disciplinary hearings were currently in process. However the College Council stated that "Wycliffe is committed to maintaining its evangelical ethos and its international reputation for excellence in theological education, ministerial formation and training for Christian leadership in the church and the world… The council unanimously reiterates its support for the principal. [It] is recruiting record numbers of candidates for this year and the next academic year."^[2]

Alumni

★ Jonathan Aitken

★ Donald Coggan

★ Carl N Cooper

★ Nicky Gumbel

★ J. I. Packer

★ N.T. Wright

★ James Jones

★ Dr Michael Horton

Academics and teachers

★ The Revd Dr Richard Turnbull (Principal)

★ Dr Elaine Storkey

★ The Revd Peter Southwell

★ The Revd Dr Benno van den Toren

★ Dr Philip Johnston

★ The Revd Dr Andrew Goddard

★ The Revd Dr Peter Walker

★ The Revd Lis Goddard

★ The Revd Jenny Williams

References

External links

★ Official website

★ Not faith, but fanaticism, by Giles Fraser, ''The Guardian'', May 29, 2007.