Jane Shaw, Ph.D.

Jane Shaw is Fellow and Evelyn Underhill Professor of Historical Theology. She is Dean of Divinity, Chaplain and Fellow of New College, Oxford University, and an honorary chaplain of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. She teaches in the Faculties of Theology and History and is Director of Studies for the Oxford University Summer Programme in Theology. Ordained in the Church of England, she read history as an undergraduate at Oxford and then lived for eight years in the USA where she was active in the Episcopal Church. She has a Ph.D. in history from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master of Divinity from Harvard University. She has published articles on various aspects of ecclesiastical history and is co-editor of Culture and the Nonconformist Tradition (University of Wales Press). Dr. Shaw is also co-editor of her recent book, The Call for Women Bishops (SPCK), published 2004. Her most recent book is entitled Miracles in Enlightenment England, published through Yale University Press. She co-directs, with Professor Christopher Rowland, The Prophecy Project – a research project based at the University of Oxford on modern prophecy movements and their antecedents. In 2005, Dr. Shaw received the Doctor of Divinity honoris causa from the Foundation in recognition of her contribution to feminist theology and the Anglican tradition worldwide.

Books

Miracles in Enlightenment England
Call For Women Bishops (with Harriet A. Harris)

Religious Affiliation

Anglican (Priest)