Benjamin Wood is Woodbrooke’s Programme Coordinator for Applied Theology and Biblical Studies.
Before coming to Woodbrooke, Ben spent more than a decade in UK Higher Education in a variety of teaching, research, and pastoral roles. He graduated from the University of Leeds in 2013, and since then has been a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Manchester, and has held several visiting lecturer posts at the University of Chester, Leeds Trinity, and at the University of Leeds. Ben has provided MA Supervision for Sarum Theological College, and has been a Consultant Theologian for St Barnabas Church, Southfields, London. Ben is a member of the Centre for Religion and Public Life at the University of Leeds and a Supervisor within the Centre for Quaker Studies at the University of Birmingham.
Research Interests
Theological Ethics
Quaker Theology
Christian anthropology
The Philosophy of Selves and Persons
The Philosophy of Religion
Political Theology
He can be contacted directly at: ben.wood@woodbrooke.org.uk
Publications Include:
The Living Fountain: Remembrances of Quaker Christianity, Christian Alternative, John Hunt Press, (May 2023)
‘William Penn’s Pragmatic Christology: A Christian Philosophy of Religion(s)’, The Quaker World, Routledge, (November 2022)
‘The Body is Enough: Towards a Liberal Quaker Disabled Theology’, The Quaker World, Routledge, (November 2022)
‘The Decay of Western Liberalism and the Christological Alternative’, Cultivating New Post-secular Political Space, ed. Roger Haydon Mitchell, (London Routledge, June 2019)
‘Liberalism and the Pre-Modern A Theological Appreciation of the Politics of Jo Grimond’, Theology and Civil Society, (London: Routledge, 2018), pp. 131-147
‘An Ethics of Fidelity: Luther, Hauerwas and Environmental Activism’, The Ethics of Nature, The Nature of Ethics, ed. Gary Keogh (Lanham: Lexington Books, November 2017), pp. 103-120
The Augustinian Alternative: Religious Scepticism and the Search for a Liberal Politics, Fortress Press, Emerging Scholars Series, 2017, (Monograph)
‘Autonomy and Dignity: A Quaker Theological Response to Assisted Dying’, Assisted Dying: A Quaker Exploration, (York: Quacks Books, 2016), pp. 93-105
Peer Reviewed Publications:
‘The Making of Christian Toryism: The Public Faith of Harold Macmillan’, International Journal of Public Theology, Volume 16 (2022): Issue 4 (Dec 2022, p. 466–490)
‘Quakers, Creation, Care and Sustainability. Quakers and the Disciplines, Volume 6 Philadelphia: Friends Association for Higher Education’, (Review), Quaker Studies, Issue 26, Vol. 2, January 2021)
‘Brill Perspectives in Quaker Studies Series, ed. Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion’, Journal of Quaker Studies, 24.2, (Book Review), January 2020)
‘The Survival of the Gift: An Enchanted Interpretation of Early Quakerism’, in Religions 2018, 9(10)
‘The Decay of Western Liberalism and the Christological Alternative’, in Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought, 2019: Volume 9: Issue 4.
‘Montaigne and Christian Secularity: An Alternative to Radical Orthodoxy, in Radical Orthodoxy: Theology, Philosophy, Politics, Vol. 3, Number 2 (June 2017): 250-293.
‘The Uncanny and the Future of British Quakerism’ in Paranthropology, Vol. 7 No. 1, May 2016: http://paranthropologyjournal.weebly.com/uploads/7/7/5/3/7753171/paranthropology_vol_7_no_1.pdf
Reading Mill and Forster in Church: Liberal and Hauerwasian Ethics in Conversation, Studies in Christian Ethics, November 2015 vol. 28 no. 4 478-490
Sarah Bachelard, ‘Resurrection and Moral Imagination’, Ashgate Pub Co, 2014; pp. 209, Theology, Issue 118.4, July 2015) (Book Review)
Plurality and the Rule of Love: The Possibility of Augustinian Multiculturalism, Political Theology, Volume 16:1, Feb 2015, pp. 47-60
Preserving Personhood: Quaker Individualism and Liberal Culture in Dialogue, Studies in Christian Ethics, November 2014 vol. 27 no. 4. 474-489.
Obeying, Believing, and Rebelling: Montaigne’s Theology as Liberal-Christian Politics, Political Theology, Volume 14, Number 4 / 2013
