Ben Quash is the first Professor of Christianity and the Arts at King’s College London. Until 2007 he was Dean and Fellow of Peterhouse in the University of Cambridge.  He is a Canon Theologian of Coventry Cathedral, acts as consultant to the BBC’s ‘Religion and Ethics’ department, and is developing new postgraduate courses at King’s on Faith and the Art in collaboration with the National Gallery, London.

His own research has focused on theological aesthetics and the relation between theology and drama in Western traditions of thought, with a particular focus on the work of the Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. His recent publications include Theology and the Drama of History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), Fields of Faith: Theology and Religions for the 21st Century, edited with David F. Ford and Janet Martin Soskice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), and Heresies and How to Avoid Them: Why It Matters What Christians Believe, edited with Michael Ward (London: SPCK, 2007).