Revd Dr Calvin T. Samuel | |
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| Academic background | |
| Education | Nazarene Theological College, Manchester Business School, King's College London |
| Thesis | Holiness and Holy School - What is Wesleyan Holiness according to Scripture, Tradition, Reason and Experience and what might a Methodist holy school be?[1] (2008) |
| Doctoral advisor | Andrew Wright |
Calvin T. Samuel is a Barbados-born Methodist minister and theologian, working mostly in the UK. He has served as Director of the Wesley Study Centre at Durham University and Principal of the London School of Theology.[2]
Samuel was born in Barbados. His father and mother were, respectively, a politician and teacher.[citation needed] He grew up in both Antigua and Barbados in the Caribbean. His early career was in banking before he moved to the UK in 1993[citation needed] to study for an undergraduate degree in Theology and Pastoral Studies at Nazarene Theological College, Manchester. He subsequently gained an MBA from Manchester Business School and completed a PhD at King's College London.[2]
Initially a licensed minister of the Wesleyan Holiness Church, he was received into full connexion and ordained into the Methodist Church in 2001.[citation needed] He was subsequently a member of Methodism’s Faith and Order Committee.[2]