Tutor in theology
PhD History
MPhil Political Thought
MA Theology
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Authority (AFHEA)
Tom is married to Julie and they have five daughters aged between 8 and 0. As well as being a tutor in theology at Emmanuel Theological College, Tom is the vicar of All Saints’, New Longton in the Diocese of Blackburn. He serve on the Council of Church Society and is a priest of the Society under the patronage of Saint Wilfrid and Saint Hilda. He plays cricket for the village team, and enjoys watching sport, taking part in pub quizzes, and playing strategy board games with friends.
Areas of expertise
- Doctrine (esp. Christology, Pneumatology, and Ecclesiology)
- Church history (esp. the English Reformation and Elizabethan Settlement)
- Old Testament and Hebrew
Publications
- Serjeantson, R. W. and Woolford, Thomas (2009), ‘The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon’s Certaine Considerations Touching…the Church of England (1604)’, The Library, 10 (2), 119-56.
- ‘Free Will (Article 10),’ in Lee Gatiss, ed., Foundations of Faith: Reflections on the 39 Articles (Church Society & Lost Coin Books, London: 2018), 74-79.
- ‘The Use of Satire in the Book of Isaiah and in Christian Ministry,’ Foundations, 77 (2019), 15-29.
- T. Woolford (ed.), God’s Church in God’s World (IVP: London, forthcoming)
