Revd Dr Andrew Atherstone is tutor in history and doctrine, and Latimer research fellow, at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.
Contact: andrew.atherstone@wycliffe.ox.ac.uk
Andrew studied mathematics and theology at Christ's College, Cambridge followed by a doctorate in ecclesiastical history at Wycliffe Hall. He was ordained in 2001 as curate of Christ Church, Abingdon, near Oxford, and four years later joined the Latimer Trust (an Anglican evangelical research institute) as research fellow. He returned to Wycliffe Hall to teach in 2007, and is a member of Oxford University's theology faculty and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is also assistant minister in Eynsham and Cassington, two villages in West Oxfordshire, where he lives with his wife, Catherine, and their three children.
Andrew's main research explores areas of Anglican and Evangelical history and identity in the 19th and 20th centuries. Current projects include studies of the National Evangelical Anglican Congresses (NEACs) since the 1960s, and of the Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union (OICCU). He is also busy editing the journal of Daniel Wilson, evangelical missionary bishop to Calcutta, and the correspondence of Charles Simeon. Below are details of Andrew’s publications (both research and popular).
MONOGRAPHS and EDITED VOLUMES
Engaging with Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Apollos, 2011), edited with David Ceri Jones
Oxford's Protestant Spy: The Controversial Career of Charles Golightly (Paternoster, 2007)
CRITICAL EDITIONS
Such a Great Salvation: The Collected Essays of Alan Stibbs (Mentor, 2008)
‘The Undergraduate Diary of Francis Chavasse 1865-1868’ in Evangelicalism in the Church of England c.1790-c.1900, ed. Mark Smith and Stephen Taylor, Church of England Record Society vol.12 (Boydell Press, 2004)
BOOK CHAPTERS and BOOKLETS
‘Memorialising William Tyndale’ in Reinventing the Reformation: A Cultural History, ed. Peter Nockles and Vivienne Westbrook (John Rylands Library Bulletin, forthcoming 2012)
‘Identities and Parties’ in The Oxford Handbook of Anglican Studies, ed. Mark D. Chapman, Sathianathan Clarke, Ian Douglas and Martyn Percy (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
Charles Simeon on the Excellency of the Liturgy (Joint Liturgical Studies, 2011)
‘Gospel Opportunity or Unbiblical Relic? The Established Church through Anglican Evangelical Eyes’ in The Established Church: Past, Present and Future, ed. Mark D. Chapman, Judith Maltby and William Whyte (T&T Clark, 2011)
‘Frances Ridley Havergal's Theology of Nature’ in God's Bounty? The Churches and the Natural World, ed. Peter Clarke and Tony Claydon (Boydell Press, 2010)
Evangelical Mission and Anglican Church Order: Charles Simeon Reconsidered (Latimer Trust, 2009), republished in Preachers, Pastors and Ambassadors: Puritan Wisdom for Today's Church, ed Lee Gatiss (Latimer Trust, 2011)
An Anglican Evangelical Identity Crisis: The Churchman-Anvil Affair of 1981-1984 (Latimer Trust, 2008)
‘“The Prince of Pastoral Preachers”: The Oxford Sermons of Francis Chavasse’ in British Evangelical Identities Past and Present, ed. Mark Smith (Paternoster, 2008)
‘Rescued from the Brink: The Collapse and Resurgence of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford’ in Revival and Resurgence in Christian History, ed. Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory (Boydell Press, 2008)
‘The Founding of Cuddesdon: Liddon, Ritualism and the Forces of Reaction’ and ‘Controversy Renewed: Partisan Polemic and the Great Ritualist “Conspiracy”’ in Ambassadors of Christ: Commemorating 150 Years of Theological Education in Cuddesdon, 1854-2004, ed. Mark D. Chapman (Ashgate, 2004)
JOURNAL and DICTIONARY ARTICLES
‘George Francis Graham Brown’, ‘William Henry Griffith Thomas’ and ‘Olaf Raymond Johnston’ in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (forthcoming, 2012)
‘The Keele Congress of 1967: A Paradigm Shift in Anglican Evangelical Attitudes’, Journal of Anglican Studies vol. 9 (November 2011)
‘The Canonisation of the Forty English Martyrs: An Ecumenical Dilemma’, Recusant History vol. 30 (October 2011)
‘A Mad Hatter's Tea Party in the Old Mitre Tavern? Ecumenical Reactions to Growing into Union’, Ecclesiology vol. 6 (January 2010)
‘Evangelical Pilgrims to the Holy Land: Wycliffe Hall’s Encounter with the Eastern Churches, 1927-37’, Sobornost vol. 30 (Winter 2008)
‘Evangelical Dissentients and the Defeat of the Anglican-Methodist Unity Scheme’, Epworth Review vol. 35 (October 2008)
‘Evangelicals Fragmented: Theological Tensions at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford c.1980-95’, Christianity and History Bulletin vol. 4 (Spring 2008)
‘The Silencing of Paul Baynes and Thomas Taylor, Puritan Lecturers at Cambridge’, Notes and Queries vol. 252 (December 2007)
‘Anglican Evangelicals, Old Catholics and the Bonn Agreement’, Internationale Kirchliche Zeitschrift vol. 97 (March 2007)
‘Edwin Atherstone’ and ‘James Bird’ in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
‘The Founding of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford’, Anglican and Episcopal History vol. 73 (March 2004)
‘George Leornard Carey’ and ‘Henry Wace’ in Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals, ed. Timothy Larsen (Inter-Varsity Press, 2003)
‘Archbishop Carey’s Ecumenical Vision’, Theology vol. 106 (September 2003)
‘Benjamin Jowett’s Pauline Commentary: An Atonement Controversy’, Journal of Theological Studies vol. 54 (April 2003)
‘The Martyrs’ Memorial at Oxford’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History vol. 54 (April 2003)
‘Robert Baker Girdlestone and “God’s Own Book”’, Evangelical Quarterly vol. 74 (October 2002)
POPULAR BOOKS
The Houses of Parliament: Cradle of Democracy (Day One, 2011)
The Reformation: Faith and Flames (Lion Hudson, 2011)
The Heart of Faith: Following Christ in the Church of England (Lutterworth, 2008), as editor and contributor
Oxford: City of Saints, Scholars and Dreaming Spires (Day One, 2008)
The Martyrs of Mary Tudor (Day One 2005, revised edition 2007)
POPULAR ARTICLES
‘Parliament's Christian Heritage’, Crossway (forthcoming, 2012)
‘J.C. Ryle's Evangelistic Strategy’, Churchman vol. 125 (Autumn 2011)
‘A Curate's Egg’, review-article of Rob Warner's Reinventing English Evangelicalism 1966-2001, Anvil vol. 26 (Winter 2009)
‘The Implications of Semper Reformanda’, Anvil vol. 26 (Spring 2009)
‘Divine Retribution: A Forgotten Doctrine?’, Themelios vol. 34 (April 2009)
‘Redefining Anglicanism? An Evangelical Critique of the Proposed Anglican Covenant’, Churchman vol. 121 (Winter 2007)
‘The Passions of the Marian Martyrs: Lessons for the Anglican Communion’, Churchman vol. 120 (Autumn 2006)
‘The Incoherence of the Anglican Communion’, Churchman vol. 118 (Autumn 2004)
‘The Letters of John’, Guidelines vol. 20 (January 2004)
POPULAR BOOKLETS, mostly on LITURGY
Lay Presidency: An Anglican Option? (Grove Books, 2011)
Clergy Robes and Mission Priorities (Grove Books, 2008)
Introducing Times and Seasons: The Easter Cycle (Grove Books, 2007), with Colin Buchanan, Phillip Tovey and Patrick Angier
Common Worship Reconciliation and Restoration: A Commentary (Grove Books, 2006), with Phillip Tovey and David Kennedy
‘I Absolve You’: Private Confession and the Church of England (Latimer Trust, 2005)
Confessing Our Sins (Grove Books, 2004)
‘Search Me, O God’: The Practice of Self-Examination (Grove Books, 2003)