Berkley Center

Philip Seddon is retired after 40 years as an ordained minister in the Church of England. After a curacy in the Diocese of Manchester, he specialized in biblical studies and Christian spirituality. He taught at Trinity Theological College in Umuahia, Nigeria with the Church Mission Society, and at St. John's College, Nottingham. Following a chaplaincy at Magdalene College, Cambridge, he lectured in the Selly Oak Colleges, then in the University of Birmingham, and most recently in the Southern Theological and Educational Training Scheme in Salisbury, where he was director of vocational studies. His M.Phil. investigated the Qumran document 11QMelchizedek. He co-edited The Lord of the Journey: A Reader in Christian Spirituality (1990), and has written a number of Grove booklets, including Darkness (1983/1992) and Redeeming Eros: Reading the Song of Songs (2010).