| Plenary Speakers
Oxbridge 2005 – Plenary Faculty Bios Fellow and Chaplain of Green College, Oxford, and the first Holmes Professor of Faith and Learning at Wheaton College. At Oxford since 1979 teaching medical ethics, philosophy, theology and Christian ethics, he is Founding Director of the Whitefield Institute, which funds and supports research in theology, ethics, and education. He is a regular media broadcaster on medical and moral issues and has written extensively in the area. David Lyle Jeffrey 
Dr. Warren is the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller The Purpose-Driven® Life, the bestselling hardback nonfiction book in history. He is also the founding pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, one of America's largest and best-known churches, begun as a small group in their home in 1980. Saddleback now averages over 20,000 in attendance each weekend and has started 34 daughter churches, inspired thousands of other new churches to be started, and sent nearly 5,000 of its members on mission projects around the world. Rick's teaching tapes have been distributed in 112 countries. His other books include The Power to Change Your Life, Answers to Life's Difficult Questions, Planned for God's Pleasure, and Personal Bible Study Methods.
Malcolm Guite Kathleen Norris Sir John Polkinghorne, K.B.E., F.R.S.
A former pastor and professor of theology; founder of RENOVARÉ, a non-profit organization committed to working for the renewal of the Church of Jesus Christ in all her multifaceted expressions; author of six books including Celebration of Discipline, PRAYER: Finding the Heart's True Home, and Streams of Living Water, which effectively promote personal spiritual renewal. From his base in Colorado, he travels throughout the world, speaking and teaching on the spiritual life. Joseph Pearce |
Provost and Distinguished Professor of Literature and Humanities, Baylor University. Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he previously taught at the University of Ottawa and served as Chair of English both at the University of Victoria and the University of Ottawa; General Editor and co-author of A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature. Other books include People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture, and most recently, Houses of the Interpreter: Reading Scripture, Reading Culture. Current research interests involve the relationship of biblical humanities to literary and artistic expression.
Professor of English Literature, Houston Baptist University. Dedicated to the concept of the professor as public educator, he has produced two lecture series with the Teaching Company – his first offering a survey of literary theory and his second on the life and writings of C.S. Lewis. He is author of the recently acclaimed Lewis Agonistes: How C.S. Lewis can Train us to Wrestle with the Modern and Postmodern World.
Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago, School of Divinity; a political philosopher whose task has been to show the connections between our political and our ethical convictions; formerly on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Vanderbilt University, she has been a visiting professor at Oberlin College, Yale University, and Harvard University; a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she has authored 20 books including Just War against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World, New Wine in Old Bottles: International Politics and Ethical Discourse, and Augustine and the Limits of Politics. 
Director of the Oxford Centre for Evangelism and Apologetics, former Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford University, and Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. He is perhaps best known for his "scientific theology" project, which aims to use the working methods and assumptions of the natural sciences as a dialogue partner for systematic theology. He has published extensively, most recently Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World, and Dawkins’ God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life.
Professor of Philosophy, Saint Louis University; research interests include the Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysics, and Medieval Philosophy. She is President of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association and Past President of the Society of Christian Philosophers and of the American Catholic Philosophical Association; author of the forthcoming Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering, based on her 2003 Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. 
Founder and Chairman of Prison Fellowship International; former Special Counsel to President Nixon; recipient of the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. Noted for promoting prisoner rehabilitation and reform of the prison system, he has worked to begin faith-based prisons; syndicated columnist and author of over twenty books, including How Now Shall We Live, Being the Body, and Justice That Restores. 
Bishop of Liverpool and former Bishop of Hull; President of the Church Pastoral Aid Society, and chair of the Church of England's Board of Mission; author of People of the Blessing, Following Jesus, Finding God, The Power and the Glory, and Jesus and the Earth. Bishop Jones has a special interest in urban regeneration, the role of the voluntary sector in community renewal, the value of the family to social cohesion, and the engagement of Christian faith with contemporary culture.
Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and internationally acclaimed poet, critic, educator, and former business executive; influential literary anthologist and critic; long-time commentator on American culture and literature for BBC Radio; his poems, translations, essays, and reviews have appeared in many periodicals; founder of "Teaching Poetry," a conference dedicated to improving high school teaching of poetry and the West Chester University Poetry Conference, the nation's largest annual all-poetry writing conference; best known for Can Poetry Matter?, his book on the role of poetry in contemporary culture. His collection of poems, Interrogations at Noon, one of three full-length books of poetry, won the 2002 American Book Award.
Emeritus Professor in Residence, Christian Theology at the University of Nottingham; internationally known for his work in hermeneutics, having published two of the most significant works on the subject, in addition to several other books (e.g., The Concise Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Religion and Interpreting God and the Post-Modern Self) and numerous scholarly papers. He has taught and lectured around the world, and is Canon Theologian of both Leicester Cathedral and Southwell Minster, England. 
Writer-in-Residence; author of four memoirs: Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, The Cloister Walk, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, and The Virgin of Bennington, as well as several volumes of poetry, the most recent being Journey: New and Selected Poems, 1969-1999. She is an oblate of Assumption Abbey, Richardton
Professor of Art History at Messiah College, Pennsylvania, she taught previously at USC and Yale Divinity School and served on the curatorial and editorial staffs of the Frick Collection, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; author of three books on Italian and French Renaissance art and of journal articles on art and religion; a member of the Sisters of Saint Gregory, a religious community of the Episcopal Church; active as a speaker on art and religion throughout the United States. Her particular interests are Biblical imagery and the instinctive perception of art.
Physicist and theologian; President Emeritus, Queen’s College, Cambridge; Fellow of the Royal Society; Canon Theologian of Liverpool; author of many works on science and religion, including The God of Hope and the End of the World; awarded the Templeton Prize for Science and Religion in 2002 and also in that year became the Founding President of the International Society for Science and Religion. 
One of India’s foremost Christian intellectuals, international lecturer, social reformer, and political columnist for The International Indian. Having written ten books, including The World of Gurus and India: The Grand Experiment, his current project is the ambitious The Book that Shaped a Millennium. Central to his formation as a Christian thinker was his encounter with and study under Francis Schaeffer at L’Abri Fellowship, Switzerland. 
Senior Pastor of the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church of Twin Oaks, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia; Visiting Professor of Urban Ministry and Public Policy, Drew University and member of the faculty of the Center for Urban Theological Studies. He has taught church, community and public policy studies at a number of seminaries and divinity schools. In great demand as a conference speaker, he has also published over sixty monographs, articles, essays, sermons and reviews including “The African American Church and Welfare Reform” (1999) and “Faith-Based Initiatives with High Risk Youth” (2000). 
A world-recognized biographer of modern Christian literary figures; author of 14 books that have been published and translated into over eight languages, including bestsellers G.K. Chesterton: Wisdom and Innocence, Literary Converts, Tolkien: Man and Myth, Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile, and Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc. Writer in Residence and professor of literature at