Ian Ker


Ian Ker is an English Roman Catholic priest, scholar and author. He is generally regarded as the world's authority on John Henry Newman, on whom he has published more than twenty books.
Father Ian Ker teaches theology at Oxford University, where he is a senior research fellow at , Oxford, and a member of the . He has taught both English literature and theology at universities in the UK and USA. Father Ker is generally regarded as the leading authority on Saint John Henry Newman, on whom he has published the universally acknowledged definitive biography. He is also the author of The Catholic Revival in English Literature 1845-1961, Mere Catholicism, and G.K. Chesterton: A Biography. On this last book, the late Christopher Hitchens reviewed that "Professor Ker's spirited and double-barreled attempt at a rehabilitation" of Chesterton "is enjoyable in its own right."

Selected bibliography

A selected bibliography of Fr Ian Ker's books sorted by year of first publication: