Biography:
After undergraduate studies at the University of Cambridge (1991-95) in mathematics and theology, I completed a doctorate at the University of Oxford (1998-2001) in ecclesiastical history, focused upon Victorian Anglican identities, especially Protestant responses to Tractarianism. Since 2007, I have been Tutorial Fellow and Latimer Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, one of the University of Oxford’s permanent private halls, and Professor of Modern Anglicanism since 2024.
Research Interests:
My research ranges widely across the history of Anglicanism and Evangelicalism between the 18th and 21st centuries, often examining the intersection of those two global movements. I am particularly interested in questions of identity, conversion, memorialization, and historiography. I enjoy working collaboratively and my co-edited books include Evangelicalism and the Church of England in the Twentieth Century (Boydell 2014), Making Evangelical History: Faith, Scholarship and the Evangelical Past (Routledge 2019), Transatlantic Charismatic Renewal, c.1950-2000 (Brill 2021), and The Oxford Handbook of Christian Fundamentalism (Oxford University Press 2023). I also co-edit Routledge Studies in Evangelicalism. I have published critical editions of the 1845-57 journal of Daniel Wilson (Bishop of Calcutta), an important figure in the history of Anglican missions, and the 1873 autobiography of John Charles Ryle (Bishop of Liverpool). My work on recent Anglicanism includes the biography Archbishop Justin Welby: Risktaker and Reconciler (DLT 2014) and Repackaging Christianity: Alpha and the Building of a Global Brand (Hodder & Stoughton 2022). Other current writing projects are a monograph entitled Anglican Evangelical Identity Crisis, c.1960-2005 for Oxford University Press, and a critical edition of the letters of Charles Simeon, a prominent Hanoverian preacher, for the Church of England Record Society.
Links:
www.andrewatherstone.blogspot.com
