Vincent Strudwick (academic)

The Reverend Canon Professor Vincent Noel Harold Strudwick, BA, MA, DD, (b. 1932) is a British theologian and educationalist. His areas of expertise include sixteenth-century English history and the ecclesiology of Richard Hooker.

After serving as a Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force, Strudwick entered Kelham Theological College (1952), which is run by the Society of the Sacred Mission. He also studied at the University of Nottingham, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, as well as receiving a Diploma in Education from the University of London (1959).

In 1959 he was ordained deacon in the Church of England and the following year he was ordained priest.

He was a tutor at Kelham Theological College 1959-63 and Sub-Warden 1963-70. From 1970 until 1973 he served as Assistant Curate of Crawley. From 1973 until 1977 he was Rector of Fittleworth and at the same time he became Adult Education Adviser for the Diocese of Chichester. He was Planning Officer for Education for Milton Keynes 1977-80.

In 1980 he moved to Oxford, becoming diocesan Director of Education until 1989, while also serving as Continuing Ministerial Education Adviser 1985-89. In 1989 he became Director of the Diocesan Institute for Theological Education, serving as Principal of the Oxford Ministry Course until 1994 and Principal of the St Albans and Oxford Ministry Course 1994-96.

In 1994 he became a Fellow and Tutor of Kellogg College, Oxford and a member of the Theology Faculty of the University of Oxford, being granted the status of a Master of Arts in the university. He is now Fellow Emeritus and Chamberlain. He serves as Director of Religious Studies for the Department of Continuing Education and has been acting Chaplain of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He teaches on numerous out-of-term programmes such as the Smithsonian at Oxford Seminar, the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities Oxford Summer Programme, the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Graduate Theological Foundation (at which he is Bishop John Tinsley Professor of Anglican Theology), and the Oxford University Summer Programme in Theology (for which he is Assistant Programme Director). He is visiting lecturer in Anglicanism at St Stephen's House, Oxford.

He also served as Assistant Curate of Aylesbury with Bierton and Hulcott 1997-98.

He has been an Honorary Canon of Christ Church, Oxford since 1992.

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