I have been Dean Ireland Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at Oxford University since 1991. I was for ten years a member of he Board of Christian Aid and chair of its Latin Americana and Caribbean Committee. I have maintained close contacts with Brazil and have been much influenced by liberation theology. I have studied and written about the radical traditions in Christianity and , with Andrew Bradstock (as you know!) edited a collection of texts relating to these traditions (Radical Christian Writings: A Reader Oxford: Blackwell 2002).

I am married to Catherine who works in the University Counselling Service in Oxford. We have four adult children."