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
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Professor Henrietta Harrison FBA
The social and cultural history of China from the Qing through to the present, especially rural north China, links between transnational and local history, religion, diplomacy and revolution
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 Reinhard Kratz FBA
Reinhard Kratz's research interests focus on the origin of the Hebrew Bible with special emphasis on Pentateuch, historical books, prophets and psalms, the Dead Sea Scrolls (Qumran) and the history of ancient Judaism in Persian and Hellenistic-Roman times
