Charlotte Methuen

Charlotte Mary Methuen (* 1964 ) is a British church historian.

Life

Methuen first studied mathematics from 1982 at the University of Cambridge and from 1987 theology at the universities of Edinburgh , Heidelberg and Tübingen . In 1995 she obtained her doctoral degree in theology at the University of Edinburgh and became an assistant in the Protestant Theology department at the University of Hamburg . From 1996 to 2002 she was an assistant at the Ruhr University Bochum . After teaching at Oxford University (2005–2010) and Ripon College in Cuddesdon (2009–2011), she came to the University of Glasgow , where she was appointed Senior Lecturer in 2013 and Professor of Church History in 2017. She is an associate research professor at the University of Bern and a regular guest lecturer at the University of Bonn.

From 2004 to 2007, Methuen volunteered as a priestess in Old Catholic parishes in Essen ( Friedenskirche ) and Offenbach am Main ( Christ Church ). She is currently a Canon Theologian at Gloucester Cathedral .

Her research interests are Faith and Reason in the 16th Century, Reformation structures in the German Empire, continental influences on the Reformation in England and Scotland, the Reformation as an international movement, the early ecumenical movement 1910–1937 and the history of the calling and work of women.

Fonts (selection)

• Kepler ’s Tübingen. Stimulus to a theological mathematics . Aldershot 1998. ISBN 1-85928-397-7 .
• If You Love Something, Let It Go. Reflections for Ash Wednesday to Pentecost . Peterborough 2004. ISBN 9781858522760 .
• Science and Theology in the Reformation. Studies in Theological Interpretation and Astronomical Observation in Sixteenth-Century Germany . London 2008. ISBN 0-567-03271-X .
• Luther and Calvin . Religious Revolutionaries . Chicago 2011. ISBN 978-0-7459-5340-3 .

Web links

• Professor Charlotte Methuen
• Homepage (with curriculum vitae and directory of church offices)