Andrew Louth | |
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| 👁 Image Louth speaking at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, in 2017 in front of a portrait of A. B. Emden | |
| Born | (1944-11-11) 11 November 1944 (age 81) Louth, England |
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| Religion | Christianity (Anglican · Eastern Orthodox) |
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| Sub-discipline | Patristics |
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Andrew Louth FBA (/laʊθ/; born 11 November 1944) is an English theologian. He is an emeritus professor of patristic and Byzantine studies in the Department of Theology and Religion of Durham University.[2] Louth has been at Durham University since 1996. Previously he taught at the University of Oxford (mostly patristics) and at Goldsmiths' College in Byzantine and early medieval history. He is a fellow of the British Academy and was a member of the British Academy Council from 2011 to 2014.[2][3] He was President of the Ecclesiastical History Society (2009–10).[4]
Born on 11 November 1944 in Louth, Lincolnshire, he was educated at the universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh.[5] His former students include Romanian theologian and politician Mihail Neamțu. On the theology of Dumitru Stăniloae (1903–1993), Louth takes a position similar to Neamțu, stating that Stăniloae's apologetics was shaped by confessional bias and rhetorical clichés.[6][7]
Formerly an Anglican priest, he converted to Eastern Orthodoxy in 1989 and was ordained as an Eastern Orthodox priest in 2003.
Selected publications
[edit]- Louth, Andrew (2007), Greek East and Latin West: The Church, AD 681–1071, Church History, 3, St. Vladimirs Seminary Press, ISBN 978-0881413205
- Louth, Andrew (2002), St. John Damascene: Tradition and Originality in Byzantine Theology, Oxford early Christian studies., Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199275274
- Louth, Andrew; Raitt, Jill (1998), Wisdom of the Byzantine Church: Evagrios of Pontos and Maximos the Confessor, Paine Lectures in Religion, 1997, Dept. of Religious Studies, University of Missouri, OCLC 38570047
- Louth, Andrew (1996), Maximus the Confessor, Early Church Fathers, Routledge London, ISBN 0203991273
- Discerning the Mystery: An Essay on the Nature of Theology, Clarendon, ISBN 0198261969
- Mary and the Mystery of the Incarnation: An Essay on the Mother of God in the Theology of Karl Barth (Fairacres, 1977) ISBN 9780728300736
- (with Thomas C. Oden and Marco Conti) Genesis 1–11; Volume 1. (Taylor & Francis, 2001). ISBN 1579582206.
- The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition, from Plato to Denys (Oxford University Press, 2007) ISBN 9780199291403
- Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology (IVP Academic, 2013) ISBN 9780830840458
- Modern Orthodox Thinkers: From the Philokalia to the Present (IVP Academic, 2015) ISBN 9780830851218
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Behr 2011, pp. ix–x.
- ^ a b Department of Theology and Religion. "Emeritus Professor A Louth". Durham University. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
- ^ "Professor Andrew Louth". British Academy. 9 April 2015. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
- ^ Past Presidents - Ecclesiastical History Society
- ^ Behr 2011, p. ix.
- ^ Apintiliesei, Ciprian Costin (2022). Tendances Et Directions Dans Les Recherches Actuelles Des Théologiens Orthodoxes Roumains De La Diaspora. Paris: Éditions du Cerf. p. 224. ISBN 9782204153713.
- ^ Neamțu, Mihail (2012). Bingaman, Brock; Nassif, Bradley (eds.). Chapter 4: Conversing with the World by Commenting on the Fathers: Fr. Dumitru Stăniloae and the Romanian Edition of the Philokalia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 69.
Sources
[edit]- Behr, John (2011). "Andrew Louth". In Andreopoulos, Andreas; Casiday, Augustine; Harrison, Carol (eds.). Meditations of the Heart: The Psalms in Early Christian Thought and Practice; Essays in Honour of Andrew Louth. Studia Traditionis Theologiae. Vol. 8. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. pp. ix–xiii. doi:10.1484/M.STT-EB.6.09070802050003050304030306. ISBN 978-2-503-54021-4.
External links
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- "The Nicene Creed", In Our Time, Andrew Louth on the panel with Caroline Humfress and Martin Palmer, 2007
- 1944 births
- Living people
- People from Louth, Lincolnshire
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
- 20th-century Anglican theologians
- 20th-century Church of England clergy
- 20th-century English historians
- 20th-century English theologians
- Russian Orthodox clergy
- 21st-century Eastern Orthodox priests
- 21st-century Eastern Orthodox theologians
- 21st-century English historians
- 21st-century English theologians
- Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford
- Academics of Durham University
- Academics of Goldsmiths, University of London
- British historians of religion
- College chaplains of the University of Oxford
- Converts to Eastern Orthodoxy from Anglicanism
- English Eastern Orthodox Christians
- Fellows of the British Academy
- Patristic scholars
- Presidents of the Ecclesiastical History Society
- Recipients of the Order of Sankt Ignatios