Jane Shaw

The Revd Canon Dr Jane Alison Shaw (born 1965) is a British priest and scholar.

Shaw read Modern History at Regent's Park College, Oxford, (BA 1985, MA 1991), Theology at Harvard University (MDiv 1988), and completed a PhD in History at the University of California, Berkeley (1994). She has also received honorary doctorates from the Graduate Theological Foundation and Episcopal Divinity School.

She was a Fellow of Regent's Park from 1994 to 2001 (Dean 1998-2001). Having trained on the St Albans and Oxford Ministry Course, she was ordained deacon in 1997 and priest in 1998. She has been Official Fellow, Chaplain, and Dean of Divinity of New College, Oxford, since 2001.

She also holds appointments as Honorary Chaplain and Honorary Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, Director of the Oxford University Summer Programme in Theology, theological consultant to the House of Bishops of the General Synod of the Church of England, a Conference Consultant to the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movementcite web
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Her interests include the Enlightenment, modern religious history, and issues in gender and sexuality. She has published numerous books, including "Miracles in Enlightenment England" (Yale University Press, 2007), and has written numerous articles in scholarly journals. She edited "Culture and the Nonconformist Tradition" (with Alan Kreider; Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1999) and "The Call for Women Bishops" (with Harriet Harris; afterword by Marilyn McCord Adams; London: SPCK, 2004). She is also a frequent contributor to "The Guardian" and the "Church Times".

Links

* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/gayrights/story/0,,2185050,00.html#article_continue Jane Shaw, 'Face to Faith', "The Guardian"]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,762760,00.html Jane Shaw, 'Apostle of Humility', "The Guardian"]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,1509423,00.html Jane Shaw, 'Rival bids for the Anglican franchise', "The Guardian"]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1168377,00.html Jane Shaw, 'Find your own desert during Lent', "The Guardian"]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,725099,00.html Jane Shaw, 'The great divide?', "The Guardian"]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,651047,00.html Jane Shaw, 'A duty to women', "The Guardian"]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,556090,00.html Jane Shaw, 'God, love and the terrorists', "The Guardian"]
* [http://www.oxford.anglican.org/page/1773/ Jane Shaw, 'Church must be true to its theology', "The Door"]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/gender/story/0,,1341933,00.html Interview with Stephen Bates, "The Guardian" (3 November 2004)]
* [http://www.stphilipsoconnor.org.au/Anglican.html Interview with Graham Downie, "The Canberra Times" (12 August 2006)]

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