Philip Sheldrake FRSA FRHistS is a religious historian and theologian with additional background in philosophy and political theory.
In particular, Philip Sheldrake has been closely involved internationally in the emergence of Christian Spirituality as an academic discipline.
[1] Sheldrake is a past president of the international Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality, linked to the American Academy of Religion (AAR).
Sheldrake taught at the University of London (1984–94) where he was also co-director and then director of the Institute of Spirituality at Heythrop College.
He is currently senior research associate of the Von Hugel Institute at St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge, senior research fellow in the Cambridge Theological Federation (Westcott House) and professor and director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Spirituality at the graduate Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio Texas.