Ridley Hall is a theological college located on the corner of Sidgwick Avenue and Ridley Hall Road in Cambridge (United Kingdom), which trains men and women intending to take Holy Orders as deacon or priest of the Church of England, and members of the laity working with children and young people as lay pioneers and within a pastoral capacity such as lay chaplaincy.
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| Theological college | |||||||||||||
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| Location | Cambridge, England | ||||||||||||
| Motto | Martyrii Memores (Latin) | ||||||||||||
| Motto in English | Mindful of Martyrdom | ||||||||||||
| Established | 1881 | ||||||||||||
| Named for | Nicholas Ridley | ||||||||||||
| Sister college | Wycliffe Hall, Oxford | ||||||||||||
| Principal | Dr Isabelle Hamley[1] | ||||||||||||
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| Website | www.ridley.cam.ac.uk | ||||||||||||
History
editRidley Hall was founded in 1881 and named in memory of Nicholas Ridley, a leading Anglican theologian and martyr of the sixteenth century. The college's first principal was the theologian Handley Moule, later Bishop of Durham.[2] It was founded under the same Deed of Trust as its sister college Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and to this day both colleges have the ability to nominate two members to the Hall Council of the other.
Present day
editRidley Hall offers several Common Award qualifications, validated by Durham University. Although not a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, the school has ties with the university's Faculty of Divinity. Some students who are also in a constituent college of the university can be awarded qualifications by Cambridge.[3] Ridley Hall forms part of the Cambridge Theological Federation, along with Westcott House, Westminster College, the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, and others.
Ridley Hall's teaching leans towards an evangelical theology. It is one of three Church of England theological colleges that self-identify as "Open Evangelical",[4] the others being Trinity College in Bristol, and Cranmer Hall in Durham.[5][6]
In November 2023 it was announced that the Revd Prebendary Dr Isabelle Hamley would be the next principal,[7] after it was announced that Michael Volland would be leaving to become the next Bishop of Birmingham. Isabelle took up this role in April 2024.
It publishes an academic journal, Anvil.[8]
Notable staff and alumni
edit- Jonathan Bailey
- Richard Bauckham
- Jeremy Begbie
- Edward Armstrong Bennett
- Andrew Briggs
- Arthur Buxton[9]
- Christopher John Cocksworth
- Timothy Dudley-Smith
- Dick Lucas
- Michael Nazir-Ali
- Mike Ovey
- Gavin Peacock
- John Sentamu
- David Sheppard
- John Stott
- John Waine
- David Watson
- David Wenham
- Rob Wickham
- Andrew White
List of principals
editThus far, all the principals have been ordained Anglican clergy.
- 1881–1899 (res.): Handley Moule
- 1889–1907 (res.): Thomas Drury
- 1907–1927 (res.): Arthur Tait
- 1927–1945 (res.): Paul Gibson
- 1945–1950 (res.): Falkner Allison
- 1951–1963 (res.): Cyril Bowles
- 1963–1971 (res.): Michael Hennell
- 1971–1972 (res.): Francis Palmer
- 1973–1978 (res.): Keith Sutton
- 1978–1991 (res.): Hugo de Waal
- 1992–2001 (res.): Graham Cray
- 2001–2008 (res.): Christopher Cocksworth
- 2009–2016 (res.): Andrew Norman
- 2016–2024 (res.): Michael Volland
- 2024 - present : The Revd Prebendary Dr Isabelle Hamley
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Rev Dr Isabelle Hamley to take up new post at Ridley Hall, Cambridge".
- ^ "Handley Carr Glyn Moule" in Samuel Macauley Jackson, ed., The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Volume 8 (New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls, 1910), p. 30
- ^ "Study for the BTh on our ordained ministry programme". Bachelor of Theology for Ministry (BTh). Retrieved 27 January 2020.
- ^ "Our Values and Vision". Ridley Hall. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
We value our open-evangelical heritage
- ^ FAQs - What does "Open Evangelical" actually mean? at Ridley Hall website. Retrieved on September 9, 2006.
- ^ Kings, 2003. "Canal, River and Rapids: Contemporary Evangelicalism in the Church of England" Archived 2012-08-04 at archive.today by Graham Kings, published in the journal Anvil Vol 20 No 3, September 2003, pp 167–184. Retrieved on September 9, 2006.
- ^ "Ridley Hall announces appointment of new Principal". Retrieved 28 November 2023.
- ^ "Hall web-site". Ridley.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
- ^ "Buxton, Arthur", in Crockford's Clerical Directory (1930), p. 190
External links
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Media related to Ridley Hall, Cambridge at Wikimedia Commons- Ridley Hall website
- Cambridge Theological Federation website
