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 David Parker FBA
The textual criticism of the New Testament; the study of Greek & Latin manuscripts of the New Testament; editing the New Testament; digital tools for textual scholarship
Professor Gillian Clark FBA
The social & intellectual history of late antiquity, & early Christian (patristic) studies, in the Mediterranean world of the third to the seventh century
Professor Pauline Allen FBA
Early Christian literature, especially the study of letters and homilies and the edition of Greek texts; translations from Greek and Latin
