John Anthony McGuckin

John Anthony McGuckin (born 1952) is a theologian, church historian, Orthodox Christian priest and poet.[1]


Education

McGuckin attended Heythrop College from 1970 to 1972, graduated from the University of London with a divinity degree in 1975, and received a Certificate in Education from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1979, his Ph.D. from Durham University in 1980, and an M.A. in Educational Studies from the University of Southampton in 1986.[2]

Professional life and affiliations

A former Reader in Patristic and Byzantine theology at the University of Leeds, McGuckin is the Nielsen Professor of Early Church History at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Byzantine Christian Studies at Columbia University in New York City.[3]

He has written books on Church Fathers such as Cyril of Alexandria, Gregory of Nazianzus and Origen, among others. His work includes New Testament interpretation, patristics, the history of the Byzantine Empire, and Orthodox theology. He is a scholar of Eastern Christian history.[4]

He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Historical Society. He is director of the Sophia Institute: International Center for Orthodox Thought and Culture, which has its offices on the Union Seminary campus in Manhattan. In 1992 he was given the award of the Brotherhood of Peter Mohyla for his educational services at the Mohyla Academy in the newly independent Ukraine, and gave a course of lectures in Patristic Theology in the Academy buildings after they had been taken back from the possession of the Naval Academy. He was awarded the Jeweled Cross of Moldavia and Bukovina by Romanian Patriarch Daniel in 2007 for his services to the church and the academy. On January 31, 2014, McGuckin was awarded the Jeweled Cross by Metropolitan Tikhon of Washington for his services to Church and Academy. On the occasion of his delivering the 31st Annual Schmemann lecture at St. Vladimir’s in 2014 he was awarded the Doctorate of Divinity Honoris Causa.[5][6]

Bibliography

References

  1. "John McGuckin". Department of Religion. Columbia University in the City of New York. Archived from the original on 2016-06-06. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  2. "John McGuckin". Department of Religion. Columbia University in the City of New York. Archived from the original on 2016-06-06. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  3. "John McGuckin". Department of Religion. Columbia University in the City of New York. Archived from the original on 2016-06-06. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  4. "John McGuckin". Department of Religion. Columbia University in the City of New York. Archived from the original on 2016-06-06. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  5. "Fr. John McGuckin Delivers Fr. Alexander Schmemann Lecture". St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
  6. "John McGuckin". Department of Religion. Columbia University in the City of New York. Archived from the original on 2016-06-06. Retrieved 2016-06-06.

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