Brian Hebblethwaite

Brian Hebblethwaite, born in 1939, was educated at Clifton College, Bristol before going up to Magdalen College, Oxford to read Literae Humaniores. He went on to read Theology at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and to train for the Anglican priesthood at Westcott House, Cambridge. He also spent two semesters at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. After a curacy in Lancashire, he returned to Cambridge as Chaplain, then Dean of Chapel, at Queens' College and Lecturer in the Philosophy of...See more

Brian Hebblethwaite, born in 1939, was educated at Clifton College, Bristol before going up to Magdalen College, Oxford to read Literae Humaniores. He went on to read Theology at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and to train for the Anglican priesthood at Westcott House, Cambridge. He also spent two semesters at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. After a curacy in Lancashire, he returned to Cambridge as Chaplain, then Dean of Chapel, at Queens' College and Lecturer in the Philosophy of Religion in the Faculty of Divinity. His publications earned him the higher degrees of Bachelor of Divinity in 1984 and Doctor of Divinity in 2006. Since 1980 he has been Editor for Ethics for the Theologische Realenzyklopadie, and from 1983 to 2001 he was Canon Theologian of Leicester Cathedral. He remains a Life Fellow of Queens' College, and now lives in retirement near Ely in Cambridgeshire. See less