D.Phil. (Oxon), D.D. (Melbourne)
Regius Chair In Humanity
- About
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- Email Address
- john.behr@abdn.ac.uk
- School/Department
- School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History
Biography
I was appointed to the Regius Chair in Humanity at the University of Aberdeen in the summer of 2020, having taught at St Vladimir’s Seminary since 1995, serving there as Dean from 2007–17. My early work was on asceticism and anthropology, focusing on St Irenaeus of Lyons and Clement of Alexandria (OUP 2000). I am writing a series of books on “The Formation of Christian Theology”, two volumes of which have already appeared: vol. 1, The Way to Nicaea (SVS Press 2001) and vol. 2 The Nicene Faith (SVS Press 2003). On the basis of these two volumes, I published a synthetic work, The Mystery of Christ: Life in Death (SVS 2006). This was followed by an edition and translation of the fragments of Diodore of Tarsus and Theodore of Mopsuestia, setting them in their historical and theological context (OUP 2011). More recently I have published a more poetic and meditative work entitled Becoming Human: Theological Anthropology in Word and Image (SVS Press, 2013) and a full study of St Irenaeus: St Irenaeus of Lyons: Identifying Christianity (OUP, 2013). Most recently I have completed a new critical edition and translation of Origen’s On First Principles, together with an extensive introduction, for OUP (2017), and John the Theologian and His Paschal Gospel: A Prologue to Theology (OUP 2019).
- Research
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Research Overview
My research interests cover the wide range of Early Christianity (Patristics), especially scriptural interpretation and anthropology, questions of life and death, and the hermeneutics of reading texts, together with the intersection of issues arising from this field with contemporary hermeneutics and phenomenology (especially that of Michel Henry), as well as modern Eastern Orthodox theology.
Current Research
I am currently working on a new edition and translation of On the Making of the Human Being by Gregory of Nyssa and a new edition and translation of the works of Irenaeus; I am also preparing a study on the intersection of Christology, ecclesiology, and anthropology.
- Publications
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Faithfulness and Creativity
Orthodoxy and the World Today: Proceedings [of the] Sixth Congress of the Higher Orthodox Schools of Theology, Sofía, 5-10 October 2004. St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, pp. 166-73, 8 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersThe Question of Nicene Orthodoxy
Byzantine Orthodoxies: Papers from the thirty-sixth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Durham, 23-25 March 2002. Casiday, A., Louth, A. (eds.). Ashgate Publishing Ltd., pp. 15-27, 18 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersThe Nicene Faith
St Vladimir's Seminary Press. 507 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksThe Trinitarian Being of the Church
St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 67-88Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAbba: The Tradition of Orthodoxy in the West: Festschrift for Bishop Kallistos Ware
Books and Reports: AnthologiesMidwife of the Christian Bible
Christian History, vol. 80Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIrenaeus on the Word of God
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsThe Paschal Foundations of Christian Theology
St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Quarterly, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 115-136Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Way to Nicaea
St Vladimir's Seminary Press, New York. 261 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksAsceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement
Oxford University Press (OUP). 261 pagesBooks and Reports: Books
