Revd Dr Ian Paul

Honorary Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham

Ian is also Associate Minister of St Nic's, Nottingham and Managing Editor of Grove Books Ltd, as well as the author of an influential and award-winning blog (see www.psephizo.com).

He studied Maths at Oxford and Southampton before working in industrial business (in manufacturing and personnel) before training for ordination at St John's Nottingham. After achieving a first class degree in Theology at Nottingham, he completed a PhD on interpreting the metaphorical language in Revelation. Following ten years in parish ministry in Dorset, he returned to Nottingham as Dean of Studies and lecturer in New Testament at St John's, also for ten years.

He is now a writer, speaker, editor and academic consultant as well as continuing to minister in local churches.

Publications

Ian has published widely at both popular and academic levels.

Lecture titles

Sexuality and the Church
The Church too often appears to be mediaeval and oppressive in its views about sex and sexuality. Is this a result of imposing its own agenda on its reading of the New Testament, or does the Bible have something more liberating to say about sexuality?
The Book of Revelation: Inspiration or Insanity?
What on earth is Revelation doing in the Bible, when so many find its imagery misogynistic, violent, or just plain incoherent and therefore an obstacle to believing in biblical Christianity? Is there a way to read it which coheres with the message of good news we find elsewhere in the New Testament?
The Reliability of the New Testament
Do the four gospels contradict one another, and is Paul preaching a different gospel from Jesus? Or is there evidence to suggest that the New Testament documents are both historically reliable and internally coherent?