Professor Mark Edwards FBA

Religious mentality of the late Roman world (250-550 A.D,), with special emphasis on theological tendencies in philosophy and the philosophical elements of Christian thought
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2023

Current post

University of Oxford Professor of Early Christian Studies

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Alec Ryrie FBA

Alec Ryrie is a historian of Protestant Christianity in general and of religion in early modern England and Scotland in particular. He is interested in the cultural, social, political and emotional history of religion, and has written on subjects including faith and doubt; martyrdom, violence and religious warfare; magic and deception; moderation and radicalism; childhood religious experience; and liturgy and prayer, formal and informal. He is currently researching the early history of global Protestant missions. He is co-editor of the Journal of Ecclesiastical History and (in 2019-20) president of the Ecclesiastical History Society. He is also a licensed Reader in the Church of England.

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Professor Max Deeg FBA

Max Deeg (b. 1958, Germany) is Professor in Buddhist Studies in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University.

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Rev Professor John Swinton FBA

Theology and mental health, theology of disability, dementia, spirituality health and healing, practical theology, qualitative research methods, ecclesiology and ethnography, end of life care, theodicy and the problem of evil.

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