Charles Kingsley Barrett FBA (4 May 1917 – 26 August 2011)[1] was a British biblical scholar and Methodist minister.

Barrett was ordained to the ministry in the Methodist Church, and appointed lecturer in divinity at the University of Durham in 1945, where he was elected professor in 1958.

He also preached on a regular basis in the Darlington circuit of the Methodist Church and more widely.

[4] Barrett was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 1961,[1] and was awarded its Burkitt Medal in 1966.

Barrett included contributions from Morna Hooker, F. F. Bruce, I. Howard Marshall, Martin Hengel, and John Painter.