Mike Higton is Academic Co-Director of the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme (part of the Faculty of Divinity in the University of Cambridge), and Senior Lecturer in Theology at the University of Exeter. He has served as Head of the Department of Theology in Exeter, and before that as the director of the Theology programme in the Department of Lifelong Learning.
A Theology of Higher Education, Oxord, Oxford University Press, 2012.
with RE Muers, Routledge Critical Introduction to Modern Theology, London, Routledge, 2012.
with J Fodor, Routledge Companion to the Practice of Christian Theology, London, Routledge, 2012.
with RE Muers, The Text in Play: Experiments in Biblical and Scriptural Reasoning, Eugene, OR, Wipf and Stock (Cascade), 2012.
with DF Ford, The Modern Theologians Reader, Oxford, Blackwell, 2011.
Deciding Differently: Rowan Williams' Theology of Moral Decision-Making, Cambridge, Grove Books, 2011.
Christian Doctrine, London, SCM, 2008.
with RD Williams, Wrestling with Angels: Conversations in Modern Theology, London, SCM, 2007.
Deliver Us: Exploring the Problem of Evil, London, SCM, 2007.
Vulnerable Learning: Thinking Theologically about Higher Education, Cambridge, Grove, 2006.
Christ, Providence and History: Hans W. Frei's Public Theology, Continuum (T & T Clark International), 2004.
with JC McDowell, Conversing with Barth, Ashgate, 2004.
Difficult Gospel: The Theology of Rowan Williams, London, SCM, 2004.
with DF Ford, Jesus, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002.
Articles
The Ecclesial Body’s Grace: Obedience and Faithfulness in Rowan Williams’ Ecclesiology, Ecclesiology, vol. 7, 2011, 7-28
Criticism, Obedience and Exile: Theological Education as Religious and Secular, Theology, vol. 112, no. 869, SPCK, 2009, 323-332
The Irrepressibility of Scripture: Psalm 1 between Jews and Christians, Journal of Scriptural Reasoning, no. 1, Society for Scriptural Reasoning, 2008
Rowan Williams and Sharia: Defending the Secular, International Journal of Public Theology, no. 4, Brill, 2008, 400-417
The Spirituality of Further Education, Journal of Chaplaincy in Further Education, vol. 3, 2007
Read Mark and Learn, Journal of Scriptural Reasoning, vol. 6, no. 2, 2005
Can the University and the Church Save Each Other?, Crosscurrents, vol. 55, no. 2, 2005, 172-183
Boldness and Reserve: A Lesson from St Augustine, Anglican Theological Review, vol. 85, no. 3, 2003, 445-456
with SD Holmes, Meeting Scotus: On scholasticism and its ghosts, International Journal of Systematic Theology, vol. 4, no. 1, 2002, 67-81
The Research Assessment Exercise as Sin, Critical Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 4, 2002, 40-45
An American Theologian of History: Hans W. Frei in 1956, Anglican and Episcopal History, vol. 71, no. 1, 2002, 61-84
Hans Frei and David Tracy on the ordinary and the extraordinary in christianity, Journal of Religion, vol. 79, no. 4, 1999, 566-589
"A Carefully Circumscribed Progressive Politics": Hans Frei's Political Theology, Modern Theology, vol. 15, no. 1, 1999, 55-83
Frei's Christology and Lindbeck's Cultural-Linguistic Theory, Scottish Journal of Theology, vol. 50, no. 1, 1997, 83-95
Chapters
Hans Frei, in Holcomb JS (eds) Christian Theologies of Scripture: A Comparative Introduction, New York: New York University Press, 2006, 220-239
The fulfillment of history in Barth, Frei, Auerbach and Dante, in McDowell JC, Higton M (eds) Conversing with Barth, Aldershot/Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2004
Editorial comments
Scriptural Reasoning, Conversations in Religion and Theology, vol. 7, no. 2, 2009, 129-133
Undoing Delusion, Conversations in Religion and Theology, no. 1, Wiley-Blackwell, 2008, 1-5