Honorary Professors contribute to teaching and learning, staff development, and the wider life of the College community. They bring a considerable amount of wisdom and expertise to the formation and training of future priests, deacons, and lay leaders, and help to ensure we offer the very best opportunities to our students.
Professor Kelly Brown Douglas
Honorary Professor of Global Theology 2023-25
Professor Kelly currently serves as Interim President of The Episcopal Divinity School in New York and Canon Theologian at Washington National Cathedral, Washington DC. She is a world renowned womanist and black liberation theologian, whose recent book, Resurrection Hope: A World Where Black Lives Matter was the winner of the 2023 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. Her other books include The Black Christ (1993), Sexuality and the Black Church (1998), and Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God (2015).
At Emmanuel Professor Kelly contributes to our teaching on social justice, ecclesiology, and leadership. She was the keynote speaker at our Global Theology Conference in September 2022, and was Professor in Residence at Emmanuel for three months in the Autumn Term 2023.
Professor Christopher Landau
Honorary Professor of Practice in Christian Spirituality from October 2024
Professor Landau currently serves as the Director of ReSource, an organisation whose calling is to enable little, local, and ordinary churches to engage with the Holy Spirit for renewal, discipleship, and mission.
As a scholar and teacher, Professor Landau’s areas of expertise are in ecclesiology and New Testament ethics. He has written various articles and monographs, including significant works on ecclesial disagreement – A Theology of Disagreement: New Testament Ethics for Ecclesial Conflict (2021) and Loving Disagreement: The Problem is the Solution (2022).
