Welcome Professor Lewis Ayres

Professor Ayres will initially be teaching during the spring semesters of 2024 and 2025. We are happy to welcome Professor Ayres to the Faculty of Theology as part of a new project in the Theological Reception of Scripture.

Professor Ayres is Professor of Catholic and Historical Theology at Durham University where he served as the inaugural holder of the Bede Chair of Catholic Theology from 2009 to 2013. He is also Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, and holds a M.A. from the University of St. Andrews and a D.Phil. from Oxford University.

Professor Ayres has written extensively on Trinitarian theology in Augustine and the Greek writers of the 4th century. His publications in this regard include Nicaea and Its Legacy: An Approach to Fourth Century Theology (2004), and Augustine and the Trinity (2010). He is currently finishing a book on the fundamental developments in Christian exegesis and theology that occurred around the end of the second century entitled As it Is Written: On the Shaping of Christian Argument AD 150-220 and co-editing the Cambridge History of Early Christian Theology. Prof Ayres also writes on the modern reception of early Christian theology, and on modern discussions of Scripture, Tradition and the nature of theology. With Medi Volpe he edited The Oxford Handbook of Catholic Theology (2019 & 2024). He also serves as the current Vice-President of the North American Patristics Society.

 

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