Career
At the University of Kent at Canterbury in 1977, he became the first Catholic to head a Department of Theology at a British university since the Reformation. He lectured regularly on various topics, notably including seventeenth and eighteenth century European opera, on which he has spoken at the Kennedy Center and the Los Angeles Opera Center. His publications include:
Community Witness
Ideas of Order
A Language for Madness
Studies in the Sacraments (two volumes)
In Defence of Opera
Handel
Celebrating Eternity Now: A Study in the Theology of Street Alphonsus de Liguori.
