The former principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon, and former Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, the Very Revd Professor Martyn Percy is a British theologian with wide-ranging interests across faith, the church, music, culture and the social sciences.
He is the subject of Reasonable Radical?: Reading the Writings of Martyn Percy, edited by Ian S Markham and Joshua Daniel.
He has been a religious columnist for the Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Independent and is a member of the BBC’s Standing Committee on Religion and Belief.
0:00 Family background, adoption and childhood 33:47 Bristol University, Theology and copywriting 40:21 Training in publishing, Sales, and Marketing 47:20 Involvement in a tragic road accident. 54:04 Emma: Attraction, marriage and tracing Martin’s birth mother 1:02:27 Non-conformism to conformism: From house church to Anglican robes 1:07:51 Martyn’s PhD: Words, Wonder and Power: The language of power in church discourse 1:15:58 There are no bad foods, only bad diets: Martyn’s interest in the lived practices of the church 1:23:31 Illustrative fragments: The Reasonable Radical conference on Martyn’s corpus 1:28:32 Two illustrative fragments: The Principal of Cuddesdon and the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford -- For all things ExtraECC, go to: ExtraECC.com Audio versions of these interviews are at: @extraecc Follow us on FB www.facebook.com/ExtraECC, and on Twitter @ecc_extra