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Principal
 Dr Crispin Fletcher-Louis - Principal
Crispin joined the St Mary's Staff Team as Resident Theologian in September 2004. Before that he had been a Lecturer in the Departments of Theology of Durham and then Nottingham Universities. Crispin read Theology at Keble College, Oxford during the years when N.T. Wright was a University lecturer. He then wrote a doctorate on angelology in Luke's Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles (published as Luke-Acts: Angels, Christology and Soteriology (Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 1996) under the direction and inspiration of Professor Christopher Rowland.
Since then his research and publications have been in the fields of Judaism in Late Antiquity, the theology and history of earliest Christianity, especially Jesus and the Gospels, and the Old Testament. His second book is a close study of texts among the Dead Sea Scrolls that reflect the Qumran community's theology and experience of worship (All the Glory of Adam: Liturgical Anthropology in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Leiden: Brill, 2002).
Crispin has been involved in church leadership all his adult life. He grew up in Sheffield and was briefly involved in the Nine O'Clock Service; a sadly ill-fated experiment in dynamic, charismatic church for the club scene and postmodern urban context. In the early 1990s he set up a pioneering alternative service in Oxford called JOY that grew alongside an intentional community of like-minded students and twentysomethings. With his wife - Mary, and now two children, Emily and Reuben, he has played an active part in Anglican, House Church and Vineyard communities across the UK.
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