Dr Anthony Baxter

Email:  a.baxter@heythrop.ac.uk
Telephone: 020 7795 4221

Biography

Anthony Baxter’s degrees are:  MA (Oxford), MPhil (Oxford), BD (London), PhD (Princeton).  The degrees span Law, Politics, Philosophy and Theology.  He also did independent study in Theology at Cambridge University.

At Heythrop he is a Lecturer in Systematic Theology. 

He is a priest of the Diocese of Westminster.  He has lived, and helped, in parishes situated within areas of inner London marked by social, ethnic and religious diversity.

Current teaching

His teaching includes undergraduate courses Christ, God and Salvation, Fundamentals of Revelation, and Experience, Thought and Revelation; and a range of supervision.

Research interests

His main academic interests are:  Christology and soteriology; divine action; epistemology and the theology of revelation; human experience and language.

Publications

Anthony Baxter’s articles and reviews have appeared in:  The Heythrop Journal, The Downside Review, The Journal of Theological Studies, King’s Theological Review, The Month, New Blackfriars and Theology. 

The articles include:

‘The Term “Archetype”, and its Application to Jesus Christ’, The Heythrop Journal (1984)
‘How is Christ’s Risen Life Relevant to Other People’s Salvation?’, The Heythrop Journal (1987)
‘What is Changed in Virtue of Christ?’, King's Theological Review (1987)
‘Chalcedon, and the Subject in Christ’, The Downside Review (1989)
‘Knowledge, and Our Position Regarding God’, The Heythrop Journal (1993)
‘Can One be Cognitively Conscious of God?’, The Heythrop Journal (1997)
‘Historical Judgement, Transcendent Perspective and “Resurrection Appearances”’, The Heythrop Journal (1999)
‘The Bible, Knowledge of God and Dei Verbum’, The Heythrop Journal (2001)