Dr Ian J Shaw (PhD)

Honorary Fellow, School of Divinity

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Background

Ian Shaw served in pastoral ministry in London and Manchester before attaining a PhD in Church History from the University of Manchester. He then lectured for twelve years at International Christian College in Glasgow, where he was Dean of Postgraduate Studies. After this he was Director of the Langham Partnership Doctoral Scholars Programme for nine years, training and mentoring lecturers from theological seminaries in the non-Western World as they undertook doctoral studies. He was chair of the doctoral commission of the International Council of Evangelical Theological Education. He then served as Provost of Union School of Theology in Wales, and is now Head of Ministry for the OPAL Trust, which supports theological education in the Global South with the provision theological literature.  

Qualifications

BA Honours (First Class), Economic and Social History, University of Nottingham

PhD, Ecclesiastical History, University of Manchester

 

Responsibilities & affiliations

Fellow of Higher Education Academy

Research summary

Dr Shaw has researched extensively into the history of nineteenth-century urban mission, the history of evangelicalism, and the history of preaching.

He  is currently researching the history of reformed and evangelical preaching, and the work of selected nineteenth-century preachers in urban Scotland.  

Dr Shaw has published widely in these areas: -  

 

MONOGRAPHS

Evangelicals and Social Action, From John Wesley to John Stott, (London, IVP), 2021 

Christianity the Biography: 2000 Years of the Global Church (Grand Rapids: Zondervan) – US edition, 2017

Christianity the Biography: 2000 Years of the Global Church, (Leicester, IVP) - UK edition), 2016

Churches, Revolutions and Empires, 1789-1914, 650pp. (Fearn: Christian Focus), 2012: 

Calvinism and the City in Manchester and London, 1810-60  (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2003

[Oxford Scholarship Online version of High Calvinists in Action also published in December 2003.]

 

CONTRIBUTED CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

‘Presbyterianism in Britain and Europe – 1648-2000’, in Oxford Handbook of Presbyterianism, (Oxford University Press, 2018)

‘John Stott and the Langham Scholarship Programme’, in Reflecting On and Equipping for Mission, ed. K. Jorgenson and N. Jennings, (Oxford: Regnum Press, 2015).

'"The Only Certain Rule of Faith and Practice" Calvinistic Baptists and the Bible’, in Dissent and the Bible in Britain, c. 1650-1950, ed. S. Mandelbrote and M. Ledger-Lomas, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)

‘An Englishman Abroad: the International Networks of a Nineteenth Century Congregationalist’, in Studies in Church History, Subsidia 14, International Religious Networks, ed. J. Gregory and H. McLeod  (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2012)

‘The Evangelical Revival through the eyes of the “Evangelical Century”’ in Continuities in Evangelical History, ed. K. Stewart and M. Haykin (Leicester: IVP, 2008)

 

ARTICLES IN ACADEMIC JOURNALS

'John Stott, Michael Harper, and the Charismatic Renewal in England', Journal of Ecclesiastical History, (Forthcoming)  

'“Enthusiasm,” “Passion,” and Religious Conversion in the Scottish Enlightenment', Journal of Religious History https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.12740    , 2021

‘What has Glasgow to Do with Nairobi?: Churchgoing, Church Practice and Social Concern in Nineteenth Century Scotland and Twentieth Century Nairobi’, Journal of World Christianity (Edinburgh University Press), 2014

‘John Paton and Urban Mission in Nineteenth-Century Glasgow’, in Records of Scottish Church History Society, Vol. XXXV, 2005.

‘Thomas Chalmers, David Nasmith and the Origins of the City Mission Movement’, in Evangelical Quarterly (Carlisle:  Paternoster), 2004

'Rev. William Nunn and the Bennett Street Sunday School, Manchester, 1818-24', Manchester Region History Review, Spring 1998

 

Past project grants

British Academy PhD Scholarship 1993-96