Professor Andrew Louth FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2010
- Subjects
- Religion
- Sections
- Theology and Religious Studies
Summary
Born Louth, Lincolnshire. After schooling at the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield, and Waterloo Grammar School, Liverpool, studied at the universities of Cambridge (mathematics; theology) and Edinburgh (MTh thesis on Karl Barth). Taught at the universities of Oxford (1970-1985), Goldsmiths, University of London (1985-1995), Durham (1996-2010), and the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, as Visiting Professor of Eastern Orthodox Theology (2010-2014); presently, Professor Emeritus, Durham University, and Honorary Fellow, Faculty of Theology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Also priest of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) from 2003 (archpriest from 2014), serving the parish in Durham. Author of ten books, and many articles, in theology and the history of the Christian Church, especially in patristics, and modern Orthodox theology.
Current post
Professor Emeritus of Patristic and Byzantine Studies, University of Durham
Past appointments
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Honorary Fellow, Faculty of Theology
2015 -
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Visiting Professor of Eastern Orthodox Theology
2010 - 2014
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Judith Lieu FBA
The New Testament, in particular the Johannine literature; early Christianity, its literature and thought, in the Graeco-Roman and Jewish first- and second-century contexts
Professor Dr Claudia Rapp FBA
Cultural, religious and social history of Late Antiquity and Byzantium
Professor Garth Fowden FBA
Intellectual currents and imperial horizons in the first millennium CE, from Augustus to Avicenna, Central Asia to the Atlantic. Emergent Islam in its late antique context
