Mark David Chapman (born 1960) is a British

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priest,

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, historian, and academic. He has been Vice-Principal of

Ripon College Cuddesdon Ripon College Cuddesdon is a Church of England theological college in Cuddesdon, a village outside Oxford, England. The College trains men and women for ministry in the Church of England: stipendiary, non-stipendiary, local ordained and lay mi ...

since 2002, and

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of the History of Modern Theology at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

since 2015.

Early life and education

Born in 1960, Mark David Chapman was brought up in

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and

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. He studied Politics and Philosophy at

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, graduating in 1983 with a

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degree; he completed a

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degree there in 1989.

Career

Chapman became a Stephenson Research Fellow at the

University of Sheffield , mottoeng = To discover the causes of things , established = – University of SheffieldPredecessor institutions: – Sheffield Medical School – Firth College – Sheffield Technical School – University College of Sheffield , type = Pu ...

in 1989. In 1992, he joined the staff at

Ripon College, Cuddesdon Ripon College Cuddesdon is a Church of England theological college in Cuddesdon, a village outside Oxford, England. The College trains men and women for ministry in the Church of England: stipendiary, non-stipendiary, local ordained and lay min ...

. Since 2002, he has been Vice-Principal of Ripon College, Cuddesdon. In 2015, he was appointed

Professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professo ...

of the History of Modern Theology by the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

."Recognition of Distinction: Successful Applicants 2015"
, ''The University of Oxford Gazette'', no. 510915, October 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2016. As of 2016, Chapman is a

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Oxford Brookes University Oxford Brookes University (formerly known as Oxford Polytechnic) is a public university in Oxford, England. It is a new university, having received university status through the Further and Higher Education Act 1992. The university was named ...

, and is course director for the Oxford undergraduate degree programme in theology. Having trained for ordination on the Oxford Ministry Course, Chapman was

ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform ...

in the

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as a

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in 1994 and as a

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in 1995. Between 1994 and 1999, he was

non-stipendiary minister Self-supporting ministers (SSMs), previously called non-stipendiary ministers or non-stipendiary priests (NSMs), are religious ministers who do not receive a stipend (i.e. payment) for their services and therefore financially support their own mi ...

in Dorchester and then, from 1999 to 2014, he took up an equivalent post at

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and, since 2014, at

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Cuddesdon Cuddesdon is a mainly rural village in South Oxfordshire centred ESE of Oxford. It has the largest Church of England clergy training centre, Ripon College Cuddesdon. Residents number approximately 430 in Cuddesdon's nucleated village centre a ...

and

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. He is also Canon Theologian of

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and a member of the

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."Canon Prof. Mark Chapman, Vice-Principal"
''Ripon College Cuddesdon''. Retrieved 20 November 2016."Chapman, Mark David", ''Crockford's Clerical Directory'' (Church House Publishing, 2016). Retrieved 20 November 2016 – via KnowUK database by ProQuest. (subscription required).

Selected works

Chapman has researched the history of Christian theology, especially modern doctrine, the history of Anglicanism,

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and Christianity in America. He has also written about the history of Christianity at Cuddesdon. His published works include:"The Revd Professor Mark D. Chapman"
''Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford''. Retrieved 20 November 2016. * ''Anglicanism: A Very Short Introduction'' ("

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Oxford University Press, 2006). * ''Doing God: Religion and Public Policy in Brown's Britain'' (Darton, Longman and Todd, 2008) * "7th September: Proper 18", '' Expository Times'', vol. 119, issue 11 (2008), pp. 545–546 * "7th December: 2nd Advent", ''Expository Times'', vol. 120, issue 2 (2008), pp. 79–80 * "Theological Responses in England to the South African War, 1899–1902", ''Journal for the History of Modern Theology'', vol. 16, issue 2 (2009), pp. 181–196 * "Newman and the Anglican Idea of a University", ''Journal for the History of Modern Theology'', vol. 18, issue 2 (2009), pp. 212–227 * "Rowan Williams's Political Theology: Multiculturalism and Interactive Pluralism", ''

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'', vol. 9, issue 1 (2011) * "George Tyrrell and Catholic Modernism", ''

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'', vol. 62 (2011), pp. 405–407 * "Red Toryism: Some Historical Reflections", ''Political Theology'', vol. 13, issue 3 (2012), pp. 277–291 * ''Anglican Theology'' (T. & T. Clark, 2012) * with Woodhead, L., Naquib, S., "God-Change" in ''Religion And Change In Modern Britain'' (Routledge, 2012), pp. 173–195 * "Ernst Troeltsch: Kierkegaard, compromise and dialectical theology" in Stewart, J. (ed.), ''Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources'', Tome I (Ashgate Publishing, 2012), pp. 377–392 * "The Oxford Movement, Jerusalem and the Eastern Question", in Brown, S. J., Nockles, P. B. (eds.), ''The Oxford Movement'' (Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 221–235 * "American Catholicity and the National Church: The Legacy of William Reed Huntington", ''Sewanee Theological Review'' (2013) * ''The Fantasy of Reunion: Anglicans, Catholics, and Ecumenism, 1833–1880'' (Oxford University Press, 2014) * ''Theology and Society in Three Cities: Berlin, Oxford and Chicago, 1800–1914'' (Cambridge: James Clarke, 2014)

References

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