- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2010
- Sections
- Theology and Religious Studies
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
Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology 2013
The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition: from Plato to Denys 1981, ed.2: 2007
St John Damascene: Tradition and Originality in Byzantine Theology 2002
Greek East and Latin West: the Church, AD 681–1071 2007
Denys the Areopagite 1983
Modern Orthodox Thinkers: from the Philokalia to the present 2015
What is Byzantine studies?
29 Sep 2020 Professor Andrew Louth FBA
Professor Andrew Louth FBA explains the history of the Byzantine Empire and the importance of understanding its history and culture.
